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

Yeah but Demitroff still gets his hair gel.

I wouldn't say very good but he was ok for a rookie. Definitely the right pick over Gurley.

Gurley is twice the back freeman is and will be ROY, hard to believe the dirty birds missed on him as he was in their backyard. Give credit to St. Louis for taking the risk. They hit a home run.

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Except for Preston who was a 2nd rounder and had more tackles and 2x the sacks. I'd take him and anyone else with our 1st round pick.

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Come back around the month before the draft and share your genius with us please

When you have the 8th overall pick coming off a year with the worst defense in the entire league you don't use that pick on a running back.

They shouldn't have picked Beasely at 8. A lot of better options were available, including a running back in Todd Gurley and many better defensive players. It's decisions like this that lead to the franchise's continued failure.

You hindsight Monday morning GM's just suck.

Freeman didn't even start the first two games and also missed 1.9 games with a concussion and still put up 1730 ap yards (2nd in league) and lead the league in TD's with 14.

We didn't need Gurley.

And just to put Beasley in perspective, Khalil Mack only had 4 sacks, 9 QB hits, and 16 hurries his rookie year in 2014. This year he leads the league in sacks and hurries. Beasley had 4 sacks, 11 QB hits, and 17 hurries. Not to mention 4 batted passes, an int, and a couple forced fumbles.

You dumbasses would have been bitching about Khalil Mack after his rookie season too by your retarded hindsight logic.

Quit being bad at life.

So you would have had Freeman, Gurley, and Smith, essentially leaving overlap at the RB position while taking a complete flier on Preston Smith whom nobody realized would be better than Beasley in year one, otherwise he would have obviously been rated higher.

And instead, we have no superstar RB's overlapping each other, Beasley did as well as your typical rookie and will hopefully turn into a Khalil Mack level pass rusher in year two, and we got Jalen Collins who played lights out in the last 6 games of the season (179 snaps, only 3 receptions allowed in 14 targets, 2 pass defenses, and 9 tackles).

So it looks like we covered 3 positions instead of just two. And we don't have to play the hindsight game of BS to know this.

Why Antoine smith hasn't broken out somewhere perplexes me. He must be dumb as a box of nails and unable to understand pass protection because when he gets carries he gets yards.

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In the modern NFL you can have a meh defense and win the Superbowl you don't waste a top 10 pick on someone who isn't scoring touchdowns

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Which Super Bowl winning team had a meh defense?

Beasley was absolutely the right pick. He may not have had a great rookie season (and I'm sure a torn labrum played a part in this), but the Falcons had the worst pass rush in the league in 2014. In a division with Brees, Newton and Winston, pass rush is kind of important.

In the modern NFL, you can win the Super Bowl with a few meh RBs, as long as their skills compliment each other (2009 Saints, 2010 Packers, 2011 Giants, etc...). Devonta Freeman is not a meh RB. The Falcons already have a very good RB on the roster.