re: Looks like the Falcons coulda had Gurley and a better DE than Beasley

So now you're just moving the goal posts. First it was a huge tackle difference, but after I school you on why, you now bitch about one-trick pony nonsense.

You clearly have no clue how Quinn's scheme works or how football works in general.

Quinn uses a rotation for a reason. Cliff Avril (the LEO in Seattle), for instance, only played about 768 of their 966 defensive snaps. Because they purposely have different personnel packages for specific situations.

The LEO is very specifically a pass rushing specialist in the 4-3 Under defense that Quinn runs. That doesn't mean Beasley can't play the run or tackle, it's simply not his job in our defense.

And Beasley was throttled back in the first half of the season and slowly began playing more and more snaps. He played 221 in the first 8 games (45%) and 318 in the last 8 games (70%).

Look I know you're butthurt about not getting your way and having the world agree with your hindsight GM game so you can feel smart and glow from the attention, but guys like you who think you can build a team from behind a keyboard after the stats are compiled and act like you saw it all beforehand are just irritating attention whores.

I mean you're already to the point where the success of the team you root for no longer matters. You want so bad to say "I told ya so" just so you can get attention and rub it in people's faces that you're already calling Beasley, Jamal Anderson 2.0. Which is asinine since you can't possibly know if it's accurate. Which means you're just a tool.

Stop being a douche and do something constructive rather than use hyperbole and hindsight to make biased unfounded statements of supposed fact that isn't. All it does is make you look like a whiny bitch.

You mention AP like he isn't 30 years old and just had a 1 year ban from the NFL.

Plus you can look at what E Lacy and J Starks did to negate that comment in the playoffs. Or you could us A Blue who got almost 100 yards too.

Plus you are the genius who said no superbowl winning teams draft a rb in the top 10. When was the last time NE got a top 10 draft pick? When was the last time GB, or Seattle got a top 10 draft pick?

Either way, point is Gurley has done way more at the 10th pick in this draft, than Vic B has done this season. Plus Gurley missed a few games and wasn't even a year removed from an ACL injury.

Again, Gurley > Beasley. I would of been happy with Gurley instead of VB, but I would of just rather of wanted someone else than VB at number 8. Honestly if we could of traded back that would of been ideal instead of taken VB.


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Also Gurley gets a knock of being injury prone, but I think it is very unjustified. Spraining your ankle like he did vs LSU does not make him injury prone. One ACL injury does not make him injury prone. THe ACL is his first real injury, so being injured 1 time does not make someone injury prone. Sprain ankles shouldn't count for someone being injury prone, especially considering that was the only sprain ankle injury he has ever had.

This whole thread is pointless because of this:

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it is always easy to say what should have been done in a draft one or two years after the draft.

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Dude played hurt all year. I think it's a tad early to say whether or not we made a good pick, and even more pointless to single out a player that we should have picked (Gurley) at a position that is not an immediate need (see the leading scorer in fantasy this year, D Freeman)

Correct, and I agree on all points.


I understand where they are coming from. We are UGA fans and would love to see an UGA player play for the hometown pro team. But as you pointed out.....it's easy to see how a draft should go a year or two AFTER the draft.

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We are UGA fans and would love to see an UGA player play for the hometown pro team

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This is the problem, not for you specifically, but for a lot on this board. You guys do realize the Falcons have no obligation to take Georgia players and that their obligation is to take whoever they feel best fits their needs regardless of college, right?

The biggest hole on this team was pass rush. At 8, they addressed that with the consensus best pass rusher available. Beasley played this season with a torn labrum. Let him get healthy and give him another year now that he's used to NFL game speed.

If Gurley played his college ball at UCLA, none of you would be bitching about this.

So true

So you think it's smart to draft a position they don't need with the 8th pick so maybe a few more people will watch the game, as opposed to drafting a position desperately needed to make your team better? Just checking.

Yeah, I meant that he was a very good pass rusher for a rookie. Gurley is pretty close to elite already, but when you have a top 10 pick, and running back isn't a need, you stay away from that. You can always find good RBs later.

Know what fills seats more than anything else? Winning. You can't win in the NFL if you can't get after the QB.

And you remind me of people who cannot comprehend what they read. All I said, in response to a specific comment, that "if the talent is there", meaning for whatever need your are looking for if there is a UGA player with similar talent than the other prospects, then lean toward the player more popular in the area. I have said it three times now. If you don't get it, you just don't.

edit: I wasn't specifically speaking of Gurley or last year's draft. Just a generic statement.