Gonzalez....Falcons have not quit on coach Smith

[ladypanther]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10007817/tony-gonzalez-says-atlanta-falcons-not-quit-coach-mike-smith

 

Does not seem like coach Smith has been very inspiring either.

 

Falcons have injured players....who doesn't?

 

"We haven't quit on Coach Smitty," Gonzalez told ESPN.com on Wednesday. "If anything, we've quit on ourselves during certain momentum swings during the game. I think that's been our biggest problem. And I've been on teams before like this. It seems like when something bad happens -- which happens in every game, I don't care how good you are -- we're not responding like we should. We're letting it take control of us, I guess, with a here-we-go-again-type attitude.

 

 

 

Sounds like a mess of a team.  Almost sad......................nah.

 

 

[capfolly]

They haven't quit...they just suck this year.

[Fiz]

Smith is a great coach and the failings of this falcons team rest on the shoulders of dimitroff.

If they fired smith he'd be hired the next day by someone else.

[SgtJoo]

I think the Falcons' biggest problem is that they traded the farm for Julio and now they have no depth. It's that one missing piece phenomena that they and the Redskins embraced.

[Jackofalltrades]

Their play says otherwise.

This is what happens when you have a bunch of skill players and no linemen, no infrastructure.

[Montsta]

A year ago that article could have been written in the Observer about the Panthers, word for word, just change the names of the people involved.

Amazing how fast the pendulum swings in the NFL.

[jasonluckydog]

a good team plays good a bad team plays bad.

[SCP]

Well, in two years their new stadium will look like a puckered sphincter muscle.

[jbland]

Smith is a great coach and the failings of this falcons team rest on the shoulders of dimitroff.

If they fired smith he'd be hired the next day by someone else.

Sounds just like fox a few years ago.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

i fuging wish the falcons fired smith

[LA_Panther]

They gave up a too much for Julio Jones and that was the beginning of the end I think. I am not a big fan of drafting skill players high in the 1st round anyway unless it is a franchise QB or a beast like Adrian Peterson. You wanna build a team use your high picks on the trenches i.e. o-line and d-line. If you have a solid D-line and a solid O-line, you're already a .500 team even if you suck everywhere else. Julio is a great player, but he was not worth it (I think they gave up like 5 picks to move up to 6th).

[PantherFanOne]

They haven't quit...they just suck this year.

 

It couldn. not happen to a better team.than the "Foul Cons". :)

[bigdog10]

Hopefully they can douse the dumpster fire that is thier team and win thier Super Bowl tomorrow night.

Would be nice to see New Orleans fall back a game.

[Lilsmitty09]

I get a 2 day ban for saying the D word (no not the bag but the male thing) but people can make posts about a division rival on a panthers board and get away with it. This saddens me. (No disrespect to the OP, just had to throw this out there)