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highflier_08 · 10-03-2011, 09:50 AM

How can you blame our Players? The Falcons problem is with the offensive play calling. The Falcons got out a little slow true. Matt Ryan had several turnovers with fumbles and pics', and Roddy White has had some drops and our punter has shanked a few punts but what is killing us is we are playing predictable football, we are passing way too much when we need to be pounding the ball, and whats more, when we do throw the ball we need to make it look like a run. Empty backfield plays make me sick the defense knows your going to pass. Another thing I don't like is when we got 3rd and 1 to go and we go in shotgun formation and try to hit a home run instead of picking up a first down and pounding the rock and holding on to the ball wearing their D out and keeping our D rested. For a team that is suppost to have such a "high-powered" offense, i'm seeing our Defense far too much.

RnB · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2011 10:05 AM by RnB.)

(10-03-2011 09:50 AM)highflier_08 Wrote: How can you blame our Players? The Falcons problem is with the offensive play calling. The Falcons got out a little slow true. Matt Ryan had several turnovers with fumbles and pics', and Roddy White has had some drops and our punter has shanked a few punts but what is killing us is we are playing predictable football, we are passing way too much when we need to be pounding the ball, and whats more, when we do throw the ball we need to make it look like a run. Empty backfield plays make me sick the defense knows your going to pass. Another thing I don't like is when we got 3rd and 1 to go and we go in shotgun formation and try to hit a home run instead of picking up a first down and pounding the rock and holding on to the ball wearing their D out and keeping our D rested. For a team that is suppost to have such a "high-powered" offense, i'm seeing our Defense far too much.

I thought we did an awesome job yesterday of using a varied attack. Seattle made adjustments at the half and we tried to maintain the lead. We took a couple shots in the second half but mostly played safe football. I was disappointed that we did not score late in the game (execution failures, namely Roddy and Matt) but could not be happier with how our offense played yesterday. If we had put our foot on their throat and came up with more defensive stops it would have been better, of course, but we did more than enough to win that ball game.

Beef · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2011 10:23 AM by Beef.)

(10-03-2011 09:50 AM)highflier_08 Wrote: How can you blame our Players? The Falcons problem is with the offensive play calling. The Falcons got out a little slow true. Matt Ryan had several turnovers with fumbles and pics', and Roddy White has had some drops and our punter has shanked a few punts but what is killing us is we are playing predictable football, we are passing way too much when we need to be pounding the ball, and whats more, when we do throw the ball we need to make it look like a run. Empty backfield plays make me sick the defense knows your going to pass. Another thing I don't like is when we got 3rd and 1 to go and we go in shotgun formation and try to hit a home run instead of picking up a first down and pounding the rock and holding on to the ball wearing their D out and keeping our D rested. For a team that is suppost to have such a "high-powered" offense, i'm seeing our Defense far too much.

There's a catch to this equation though and something we're horribly failing to do right (except for the first half yesterday, which was brilliantly unpredictable). There's a big difference between pounding the rock clock control running and purely telegraphing your every run and failing to mix it up just enough to keep them guessing. And then, failing repeatedly to adjust when they know exactly what we're about to do and we know they know exactly what we're about to do.

And we actually did run a bunch of pass plays from running formations yesterday, which was a bright spot. Until we kept doing it from the same exact run formation over and over and over with only 2 receivers. It became counter-intuitive at some point and predictable just the same.

Statick · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2011 10:49 AM by Statick.)

"No play-action (which by the way we ran 6x in the first half and every one was a successful gain), no unique formations, and virtually nothing that resembles a play that helps a struggling OL and punishes defenses for stacking the box."

"Until we kept doing it from the same exact run formation over and over and over with only 2 receivers. It became counter-intuitive at some point and predictable just the same."

^^^^
I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this.

That's what grates on me regarding Mularkey HE DOESN'T CHANGE HIS TACTICS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME WHEN THE DEFENSE ADJUSTS TO WHAT HE'S DOING.

He's been in the League long enough to know that it's a new year and just because that shit worked last year doesn't mean the same thing is going to work this year!

I wish for once he'd deviate from the script he's reading from and really think about what the defense is showing him instead of running an uncompromising numbers-based, so-called "balanced" run-pass attack.

cooperbh · 10-03-2011, 02:45 PM

All of these armchair OCs blathering on about "predictable" and "bland" playcalling are hilarious. They act as if we are the only team in the NFL who run the ball on first down - an unspeakable sin, in their view. Guess what, people? The majority of teams in the NFL run on first down. Why? It's an ideal situation to run the football.

The most laughable thing is that the Falcons ran the ball 11 times on first down in the first half and Mularkey is called "brilliant" for it. Then the Falcons turn around and call only 8 first down run plays in the second half and the usual suspects are once again calling for Mularkey's head.

Did any of you geniuses catch the Jets/Ravens game last night? In case you didn't, the Ravens ran the ball 11 straight times during one late series -out of the same formation, I might add - resulting in four first downs and nearly half a quarter burned off the clock. Was this "bland" and "predictable" play calling? Or was it just smart football? Anyone think that the reason the Ravens were successful on that drive is because the Jets had no idea that their opponent was going to try to run the ball sitting on a huge lead late in the game?

You do not win football games by consistently tricking your opponent. You win by consistently executing, as the Ravens did last night. It's amazing how many members of Mularkey's lynch mob completely fail to understand that.

Jesus · 10-03-2011, 02:59 PM

I'm going to put it on Smitty.

He has a problem with running up the score, and it makes sense. He hates the lack of sportsmanship that comes with it but you look around the league, the two worst pass defenses are in Green Bay and New England, how do they compensate for the lack of quality defense against the pass? They put the petal to the metal and score score score. They are the two highest scoring teams in the NFL.

RnB · 10-03-2011, 03:01 PM

(10-03-2011 02:45 PM)cooperbh Wrote: All of these armchair OCs blathering on about "predictable" and "bland" playcalling are hilarious. They act as if we are the only team in the NFL who run the ball on first down - an unspeakable sin, in their view. Guess what, people? The majority of teams in the NFL run on first down. Why? It's an ideal situation to run the football.

The most laughable thing is that the Falcons ran the ball 11 times on first down in the first half and Mularkey is called "brilliant" for it. Then the Falcons turn around and call only 8 first down run plays in the second half and the usual suspects are once again calling for Mularkey's head.

Did any of you geniuses catch the Jets/Ravens game last night? In case you didn't, the Ravens ran the ball 11 straight times during one late series -out of the same formation, I might add - resulting in four first downs and nearly half a quarter burned off the clock. Was this "bland" and "predictable" play calling? Or was it just smart football? Anyone think that the reason the Ravens were successful on that drive is because the Jets had no idea that their opponent was going to try to run the ball sitting on a huge lead late in the game?

You do not win football games by consistently tricking your opponent. You win by consistently executing, as the Ravens did last night. It's amazing how many members of Mularkey's lynch mob completely fail to understand that.

+1 to you, good sir. Wink

Jimusmc · 10-03-2011, 03:17 PM

do we ever run outta the 3 WR set?

that spreads them out thus not as many on the line to block the run.

damn mularkey is ass

raysnill1 · 10-03-2011, 03:19 PM

(10-03-2011 02:45 PM)cooperbh Wrote: All of these armchair OCs blathering on about "predictable" and "bland" playcalling are hilarious. They act as if we are the only team in the NFL who run the ball on first down - an unspeakable sin, in their view. Guess what, people? The majority of teams in the NFL run on first down. Why? It's an ideal situation to run the football.

The most laughable thing is that the Falcons ran the ball 11 times on first down in the first half and Mularkey is called "brilliant" for it. Then the Falcons turn around and call only 8 first down run plays in the second half and the usual suspects are once again calling for Mularkey's head.

Did any of you geniuses catch the Jets/Ravens game last night? In case you didn't, the Ravens ran the ball 11 straight times during one late series -out of the same formation, I might add - resulting in four first downs and nearly half a quarter burned off the clock. Was this "bland" and "predictable" play calling? Or was it just smart football? Anyone think that the reason the Ravens were successful on that drive is because the Jets had no idea that their opponent was going to try to run the ball sitting on a huge lead late in the game?

You do not win football games by consistently tricking your opponent. You win by consistently executing, as the Ravens did last night. It's amazing how many members of Mularkey's lynch mob completely fail to understand that.

LOL, the Ravens consistently executed to punt every possession in the second half except the final where they kneeled down 3 plays AND the defense scored in the second half. now if you're applauding them running the clock, carry on

Jesus · 10-03-2011, 03:20 PM

(10-03-2011 03:19 PM)raysnill1 Wrote: LOL, the Ravens consistently executed to punt every possession in the second half except the final where they kneeled down 3 plays AND the defense scored in the second half. now if you're applauding them running the clock, carry on

Joe Flacco's completion percentage this year is 49.3% They're 3-1