Ask The Falcoholic!

I’m more worried about covering Tony Gonzalez.

I’d say we’re middle of the pack against the run.

I would say we are at least in the upper half.

When you are talking about run Ds however, we are definitely a solid defenses.

on football outsiders, the browns rushing D is rated overall (this is all through week 3. I can give updates when they edit it tomorrow) 10th in the league. The browns D-Line rankings are 6th in power success (the guys up front are good at stopping backs in short yardage situations), 6th in ranking in getting guys in the open field and 6th in stopping guys from getting to the 2nd level. However, the browns are 28th in stopping the guy behind the LOS.

These stats tell the story of what I have witnessed with the browns. As a 3-4 team, the D-Line has been solid at taking up blockers and the linebackers have been swarming to the ball. while the D doesn’t get great penetration into the backfield, the front 7 is solid and they contain the RB well.

Overall, turner I think will struggle, but Gonzalez and Roddy White will have a field day (we have trouble stopping opposing TEs, and we just get murdered by opposing #1s)

Upper half to above average against run.

This is just me, but I don’t think we’ve allowed a 100 yard rusher in the last four games

With Hillis being the focus of our offense, I would anticipate seeing more gap blitzes from the Falcons—agree?

Thanks for the info.

They tend to stay to the left from what I recall (but ask rufio for more info) behing All-World Joe Thomas, Steinbach and Mack.

Hillis ran for 144 yards against the Ravens, and with Delhomme back your safety isn’t going to be able to come to the line of scrimmage on every down to stop him. If the Falcons are too focused on stopping Peyton, Delhomme should be able to make them pay.

Your defense will regret underestimating Peyton Hillis. He’s an amazing running back. I don’t think it’s going to matter which direction he’s running, it’s going to be forward.

I hope Pierre Thomas is back this week. I don’t think I’ll want to start Hillis.

I am not that worried. The Falcons will stack the box if they know what’s good for them, and we’ll need to pass them out of it. Or go to 2TE, 2RB sets and the “eff you we’re running the ball” offense, daring them to put 9 or 10 in the box.

The only name you butchered was Robi.

You messed up the easy one.

I think Ryan is probably better than Schaub. And has higher upside.

Schaub was a great pickup and so was Ryan. You’re dealing with two different front offices here, but the Falcons seem to have some great scouting in place for quarterbacks. We also brought Chris Redman back from the scrap heap, and he’s been a great backup for us.

I don’t regret trading away Schaub, even though the picks we got back for him haven’t turned out to be much. At the time, there was simply no way to know that Vick was going to explode and almost take the franchise with him. It seemed like a savvy move.

Totally understand what you are saying and your opinion is reasonable and probably supported by most, especially before we started this season. However, today, I’d take Vick over either of them in a heartbeat. No question in my mind that Vick’s upside is still enormous and he has the potential to transition to run-first QB to great pocket passer with threat to run and become a HOF’er a la Steve Young.

Is Jaws somewhere reading this? This is why it will need to get to the point where teams have 2 legit running QBs before the Oregon or RIchRod offenses can think about working in the NFL.

Thanks, man. More than I could have asked for, but precisely what I was wondering.

I’ll definitely take this into account. (I’m in fantasy trade negotiations.)