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Friday, April 5th, 2013
Brian Banks' story has been well-documented. The former high school football standout from California who served prison time and had his life and career path interrupted in a massive way for a rape he didn't commit has finally landed an NFL job.
The Atlanta Falcons signed Banks earlier this week, and ...
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
After a decade in the Big Apple, defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora is headed for Atlanta. Umenyiora worked out a two-year deal with the Falcons, though he has nothing bad to say about the New York Giants in this interview. Umenyiora believes he still hasn't played his best football and believes ...
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Monday, March 18th, 2013
Steven Jackson is an Atlanta Falcon. Weird, I know. From one dome team to another for one of the best running backs of this era. But Jackson isn't expected to be as productive in his next setting, mainly because the guy is no spring chicken now. He'll turn 30 this ...
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Matt Ryan's numbers have been better than Joe Flacco's since the two came into the league in 2008, but Flacco has a Super Bowl ring and Ryan has just one playoff victory. As a result, Flacco is now the highest-paid player in NFL history while Ryan enters a contract year ...
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
We're less than a week now until NFL free agency gets underway and William Moore of the Atlanta Falcons is one of the top safeties who is expected to hit the open market. Moore made the Pro Bowl in 2012 and while there's a chance he returns to the Falcons, ...
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
The NFL's leading active sack man is on the open market after being released last week by the Atlanta Falcons. And while John Abraham is turning 35 this offseason, he'll likely be a hot commodity because pass rushers are so damn valuable in this league. And it helps that Abraham ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Asante Samuel nearly made it back to a Super Bowl for the first time since his Patriots days in his first year with the Atlanta Falcons. And now, after falling just short, Samuel believes that the pain from the NFC Championship loss to San Francisco. as well as the increased ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Tarell Brown is headed to Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, and the San Francisco 49ers deserve it. They shut out the Atlanta Falcons' offense in the second half of the NFC Championship Game and erased a 17-point deficit on the road.
Brown had eight solo tackles against the Falcons and ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
The Atlanta Falcons finally thought they had it all together. After years of dominant regular seasons, the Falcons finally won a playoff game for the first time in the Matt Ryan era and were on cruise control with a 17-0 first-half lead in Sunday's NFC Championship Game versus San Francisco. ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
The Atlanta Falcons have finally gotten a monkey off their back, with Matt Ryan and Mike Smith winning a playoff game. But general manager Thomas Dimitroff doesn't want to stop at one, and he believes his team might have the right recipe to keep rolling this January.
Falcons general manager Thomas ...
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