Couple of exerpt from Don Banks.......

[imaCafan]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....wild.card.snap.judgments/index.html#?eref=T1


As long as he has been a productive and loyal member of the Falcons organization, I hope the last memory we have of linebacker Keith Brooking in red and black is not seeing him (and rookie middle linebacker Curtis Lofton) get suckered on that game-sealing 23-yard reception by little-used Cardinals tight end Stephen Spach.

Brooking has a contract that includes a voidable final year in 2009, and he's no sure thing to return to Atlanta for a 12th season.

• Has anyone bothered to file a missing person report yet for Falcons sack specialist John Abraham? Because Cardinals tackles Levi Brown and Mike Gandy made him disappear on Saturday.

• I really wouldn't have believed that Atlanta's No. 2-ranked running game could sink as low as it did against Arizona. The Falcons had a season-low 60 yards on the ground, produced just six first downs running, and averaged a paltry 2.5 yards per rush. Michael Turner was anything but a Burner, with a measly 42 yards on 18 carries, with a long of 13.

 

[SuperSpck]

Sounds sorta disrespectful.

 

[CardLogic]

I like this, from the same article:

Could we please all stop talking about how the league should seed strictly by record and shouldn't give division champs an automatic home playoff game as if it's a new topic? It's as if no one even remembers that this debate raged early last offseason and was thoroughly hashed out at last March's NFL annual meeting. I'm in favor of seeding by record, but the verdict among NFL clubs was pretty resoundingly in the opposite direction. And I don't expect that to change overnight.
The NFL's competition committee last spring didn't even get to see its proposal voted on by owners because it had canvassed the room and knew it didn't have anywhere near the needed 24 "yea's" for passage. It withdrew a proposal that would have wild-card teams with better records playing host to division winners -- meaning Saturday would have featured the Cardinals at the Falcons and the Chargers at the Colts -- and tabled the issue.
"There is the historical idea that a division champion should have a home game,'' said Falcons team president and competition committee co-chairman Rich McKay, who no doubt would lobby even harder for a change in rules today, after Atlanta's defeat.

 

[Evil Ash]

Sounds sorta disrespectful.

Good. Our team seems to thrive on that type of disrespect. I hope the media disrespects us all week long