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Did we really go 12-4 last season?

Ja Rhule

By Ja Rhule,
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If you just wake up from 2 years in comma you'd never knew we won the South. Everyone rank us from 15th to 20th best team in NFL. If you visit Falcons forum, you'd think they're poo don't stink and they act like they just won SB 4 months ago... Saints are in the same boat and everyone believes we'll be the worst team in the South this season... We pretty much under the radar after 12-4 season... I'll take it.

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I'm trying to figure this out too. personally I wonder about the Defense but that's it, I still think our offense is good enough to win us 8-9 games by themselves.

And if you add to the fact that our defense most years is in the top 10 particularly in points allowed. Even last year we finished 12th. As long as we can average 26 points a game this year, even if we give up just as many as last year-20 points per game- we should win 9 or 10 games. If we have any improvement on defense at all we should win the division at 10-6 or better.

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The falcons have new, talented, young QB and have had a busy and productive offseason. They also bowed out of the playoffs in less pathetic way.

We have a vet QB who doesn't go on talent but his intagibles...and he had the worst game of his life...in the playoffs where we got absolutley destroyed. We haven't signed a single FA and didn't have a first round pick. Then add on our disgruntled franchise player.

I can see why the talking heads will not lean our way.

We'll just have to prove them all wrong again:thumbsup:

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*Coma, and I think our offense was that good, but we also had a favorable schedule

We have a good Running game but our Passing is suspect. Also our D was really suspect the whole season. With that said we went toe to toe with the cards the first game and won also knocked off the Chargers,Denver and would have one in New York if it was not for our dreadful D. We played a lot of Playoff team and won so I see no way in saying that we had a cake walk.

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Look at it this way, we had new players in every single starting spot on the OLine at the start of '08 compared to the start of '07. Due to injuries, we also had a different lineup on the OLine pretty much every week for the 1st half of the season. The 2nd half of the season, once the OLine was healthy and gelled, our PPG was a whopping 0.875 less than the league leading Saints. Yup, less than 1 point a game difference.

As far as defense, we got rid of one of the worst DCs in the league (Trgo) and a weak link in the secondary (Lucas) We brought in Meeks, a guy that has had top defenses with less talent and his team spending most of their draft picks and cap room on offense. He's also consistently fielded top passing defenses, the area we had the most problems in.

We also had a hell of a draft, very solid from beginning to end and we got great value on some guys in late rounds that should have gone much sooner. Also, FA isn't over yet, and this was a very week FA group this year anyway. Not alot of players there I'd even want us to go after.

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So we'll sneak up on'em. And then we'll get from and any of 100 sports analysts "I had the Panthers as my dark horse, I just didn't tell anybody or write it down. But believe me, like I believed the teh Panthers." When will that start happening, mid October?

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The media has never kissed Carolina's ass like it does half the other teams in the league. I would personally feel embarrased by being over hyped by the media every season and turning out to be a fluke. Flying under the radar is what Carolina has always done best.

Part of the Reason I don't get the Media when it comes to the Panthers is the fact that North Carolina has 2 of the most popular Colleges in the USA in UNC and Duke, I know not all the people that are fans of them are NFL fans and what not but still there is proof that a huge and mega Die hard fan base can come out of the Carolina's and you would think that ESPN and everyone else may want to try and tap it, which they could if they gave it a little push but I guess not.

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