McDermott should be fired

[antame]

I agree with the punt. Why play man in that situation I don't know. The D must have bit on the play fake.

I understand it's conventional wisdom to punt in that situation, but honestly, did you expect our defense to prevent a FG with nearly 2 minutes on the clock? I don't care what the starting field posession was, it wasn't going to happen.

When we called punt, I thought game over.

[Guild]

I understand it's conventional wisdom to punt in that situation, but honestly, did you expect our defense to prevent a FG with nearly 2 minutes on the clock? I don't care what the starting field posession was, it wasn't going to happen.

When we called punt, I thought game over.

I'm with you here. I had much more belief in converting the 4&1 than preventing a field goal. A touchdown maybe but not a field goal considering how we give yards out freely until the red zone.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

I'm pretty sure this will be his last year. Hopeflly Steve Wilkes doesn't just continue to do what SM did and will employ a much different and better D.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Martin's problem was tackling, never coverage. Nice try though.

Yeah he can't tackle but he is pretty good at coverage. I remember that interception he got last year at the end of the game in the endzone to seal the deal. He should have stayed a corner and never been moved to safety

[Cpt slay a ho]

btw it was 59 secs left and they had to drive at least 70 yards to get within a reasonable fg try bu when you get 60 of it in one play fug it.

[Montsta]

Carolina had ten days to prepare for Atlanta, and they still dropped a 30 spot on us. That somes up our defense for the past couple of seasons in a nutshell.

[Keep Pounding]

We need more than just a new DC...

[pantherj]

McDermott and Nakamura are going to give me nightmares. It's sad that those are the people I'm going to remember most from this season, and not in a good way.

[rico6]

bad play or not, Nakamura shouldn't have been on that last defensive series or any for that matter since halftimeRyan had like 4-5 bombs on the left backfield al nigbt long. They left Norman all by his lonesome and was attacked all afternoon long.

[X-Clown]

This defense is so bad it has people thinking that giving up 31 points is playing solid.

Please confuse getting a few sacks with playing solid, it adds to the humor.

7 sacks is a "few"? The D line stepped up today, but the back 7 was a severe letdown.

[antame]

btw it was 59 secs left and they had to drive at least 70 yards to get within a reasonable fg try bu when you get 60 of it in one play fug it.

OK 59 seconds, still, did you feel good punting away?

[Cpt slay a ho]

to be honest man either way i felt pretty good about our chances.......but if you said nakumura was still playing safety on that last drive hell no i didn't fell safe but let's be a 100% honest as a team we had a better chance punting the ball then goin for it. although going for it would give us the immediate win (after kneel downs) if we fail matt ryan has to gain 30 yards to get in fg range not a big margin for error for our defense. either way i'll say it like this matt ryan is no eli so him driving 70 in 59 was highly unlikey but with nakamura and norman anything was possible for matt rayn today........just one of those thing if i had known nakumura would have fug up that bad after pinning the ball on the 1 without a doubt 100% i would have said go for it. but we didn't and it was a good coaching call until he let nakamura go out on the field

[Pimpdaddy]

Let's be real, defense was stellar today except Naka

Bet u liked is pick... if not that would have been 7 for the falcunts and we would have been playing catch up at that point.... we had a great gameplan on both sides of the ball. doest the talent need to improve, hell ya. we had a good chance to win and he wasnt the sole reason we lost....

[Fox007]

7 sacks is a "few"? The D line stepped up today, but the back 7 was a severe letdown.

That would be something if all you need is a D-line eh?

Goes to show that merely getting pressure and having a solid D-line is not enough to win.

Point still remains, defense gave up 31 points = played bad.