Falcons @ Jets Preseason week 1 Thread (1 Viewer)

[Mark Wimer]

Joey Harrington made some nice throws on a scoring drive at the end of the 1st quarter - including a deep pass to Joe Horn and to TE Blakley - The coaching staff has called several deep throws. J. Norwood scored the TD on a run and has been targetted for several short passes.

After sputtering on their first drive the Falcons offense has played pretty well, IMO.

The Jet's special teams set them up on the Falcons 10 on the kickoff following the Falcons score.

Thomas Jones has seen a lot of carries in the first quarter and is running the ball very well. Not much passing going on.

 

[Arnold. S]

anyone know if they show game highlights anywhere for pre-season games?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Not much passing going on.

Gamecenter is showing ZERO pass attempts by the Jets in the first quarter

 

[bluesclues]

The Falcons receivers are being underrated.

Not that they are studs, but they may prove Vick's horrible passing skills made them appear worse than what they are.

 

[bcr8f]

anyone know if they show game highlights anywhere for pre-season games?

They replay many games on NFL Network. Replayed tonight at midnight eastern.

 

[Hammerage]

So far with a limited sample of 9 plays Harrington looks like the Anti-Vick. Maybe the Jets should just direct snap to the RB.

 

[Mark Wimer]

Thomas Jones stuffed in a short TD for the Jets.

Chris Redman in for Harrington now, looks like the Falcons are going to 2nd team after one solid quarter of work by the starters. Harrington 6/9 for 88 yards, Norwood 8/29/1 rushing and 2/10/0 receiving. Horn 1/22/0, Blakley 1/37, White 2/19 Jenkins 1/10.

WR Laurent Robinson quickly in play with 2nd team, catching 2 passes from Redman.

 

[LHUCKS]

will report back when I see the replay tonight...GB replay.

 

[LHUCKS]

Harrington 6/9 for 88 yards

Interesting

 

[Mark Wimer]

Cundiff kicks 45 yard FG for Falcons to cap 1st drive by 2nd team- split the uprights and had plenty of leg on it - woulda hit from 50.

 

[Mark Wimer]

Redman 4/6 for 30 yards on drive

 

[Patoons]

Thought Norwood looked decent on offense, even in pass protection. Looked esp. quick and decisive in his cuts....

 

[Mark Wimer]

Harrington 6/9 for 88 yards

Interesting

His receivers had to go up for the ball but they were pretty well thrown IMO, especially the one to Blakley. No turf bouncers a la Vick.

 

[Mark Wimer]

Thought Norwood looked decent on offense, even in pass protection. Looked esp. quick and decisive in his cuts....

Once he got in the flow of the game, I agree. He was a bit tentative following FB Mughelli early on but looked better after a few minutes, especially after the Falcons uncorked a few deep passes (and hit some)

 

[Boone22]

Not much passing going on.

Gamecenter is showing ZERO pass attempts by the Jets in the first quarter

That's because the Jets actually haven't thrown a pass. 11 straight runs.

 

[Mark Wimer]

Switching to BUF/NO - Enjoy the live football tonite guys!

 

[Tecumseh]

Chris Houston, Falcons DB, down with a knee injury.

ETA:Looked like his foot got caught in the turf when he started to backpedal.

ETAx2: Jogged off under his own power. Seems to be fine on the sideline.

 

[Anthony Borbely]

How does Clemens look?

 

[SammyJankis]

How does Clemens look?

I'd like to know as well. The box score says "pretty darn good", 14/16, 3 TDs, no picks. I'm wondering if that's indicative of his play.

 

[Rovers]

Clemens has looked pretty good... borderline very good. Keep in mind the Falcons are playing a lot of rooks on D, especially in the D backfield. Clemens 3rd TD pass (second TD by S Ryan from Clemens) was a blatant blown coverage breakdown. Chansi Stuckey had a nice game, with a pretty TD catch and has had a good camp. The Jets still can't run between the tackles. This O line can't run block at all. Take away Brad Smith's scrambles, and the Jets rushing stat line in the first half was awful. Leon Washington had a nice game, and he will put a serious dent into TJ's touches this year. The Jets RB's will be better in PPR leagues.

Falcons side, Larent (WR) and Snelling (RB) have both looked very good to me. Larent has really good hands, has some speed and seems to have "it"... the inate ability to make plays. I knew Snelling was a big back, but he is faster with more wiggle than I thought he had. He's a load to bring down, and isn't easy to get a clean hit on. Redmond has also looked good.

As a Jets fan, if Pennington went down, I would not give up on the season. Clemens is coming along nicely. I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

Ahhh... that would be Laurent Robinson I was talking about....

 

[bcr8f]

I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

His ADP has been moving up a lot lately too.

 

[TheFanatic]

I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

His ADP has been moving up a lot lately too.

That and I think the kid has a chip on his shoulder. With the additions to the Jets O-Line last year (D'Brick and one other) and a full season under their belt, I can see that line gelling and dominating in the second half. I would look to target TJones after about 4 games if he is struggling. I see the guy finishing strong. And this is from a guy that traded TJones in the offseason and would love to get him back....

 

[EBF]

So Laurent is already making me look good?

 

[fruity pebbles]

Thought Atlanta's running game looked good, both Norwood and Snelling. Snelling always gained positive yardage.

 

[supermark_28]

I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

His ADP has been moving up a lot lately too.

That and I think the kid has a chip on his shoulder. With the additions to the Jets O-Line last year (D'Brick and one other) and a full season under their belt, I can see that line gelling and dominating in the second half. I would look to target TJones after about 4 games if he is struggling. I see the guy finishing strong. And this is from a guy that traded TJones in the offseason and would love to get him back....

Fanatic,I totally agree w/ you on TJones. When you sit and look at the #'s the 3 headed monster produced last year for the Jets and combine those into 1 player,they look mighty nice. I think he's falling way too lowin drafts.

 

[Bob Henry]

I think Snelling is a nice deep sleeper.. Petrino has used a big back near the goal line in college so Snelling has an outside chance of scoring some TDs this year and perhaps getting some carries in a RBBC. Long shot for sure, but he seems like a Petrino kind of guy..

 

[Rovers]

I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

His ADP has been moving up a lot lately too.

That and I think the kid has a chip on his shoulder. With the additions to the Jets O-Line last year (D'Brick and one other) and a full season under their belt, I can see that line gelling and dominating in the second half. I would look to target TJones after about 4 games if he is struggling. I see the guy finishing strong. And this is from a guy that traded TJones in the offseason and would love to get him back....

Fanatic,I totally agree w/ you on TJones. When you sit and look at the #'s the 3 headed monster produced last year for the Jets and combine those into 1 player,they look mighty nice. I think he's falling way too lowin drafts.

Thing is, this will be a two headed monster, with something close to a 60/40 split between Jones and Washington. I warned the IDP folks about Vilma last year, and I'm putting the red flag on TJ this year. Draft at your own risk.

 

[brednbuddah]

How does Clemens look?

I'd like to know as well. The box score says "pretty darn good", 14/16, 3 TDs, no picks. I'm wondering if that's indicative of his play.

clemens looked as if he was controlling the offense, engineering drives. however, he was helped out on 2 of his 3 TD passes, where ryan (te) made a nice dive for the ball in the back of the end zone and stuckey (wr) caught the ball over a defender while the guy was facing him and blocking the ball. nice catches by both receivers. he had a very nice chemestry with ryan (te)clemens was obviously working against 2nd/3rd teamers and a vanilla D, but I thought it was very encouraging.eta: spelling

 

[Keith Lewis]

I didn't see Vicks name in the stat line, did he play, is he hurt???

 

[brednbuddah]

I didn't see Vicks name in the stat line, did he play, is he hurt???

 

[Keith Lewis]

I didn't see Vicks name in the stat line, did he play, is he hurt???

 

[vichawkfan]

I still say those who drafted Thomas Jones will be disappointed this year. He'll do OK, but below his ADP.

His ADP has been moving up a lot lately too.

I thought TJones looked very impressive and would be a good deal in the 3rd round. The Jets looked committed on the o-line to hammer some holes for the run game. TJones was VERY well respected in Chi-town and the o-line played above themselves at times the past couple yrs for TJ. (Benson rumours of team not liking him aside). Looks like Jones IS going to get some full-time respect in NY.....look for a great season and I say 10+TD's easy. Good game from what I saw.....I believe!!Leon Washington is not going to get more than 20% of the carries....he's too small and no way able to pass block like TJ.....injury waiting to happen....*disclosureI have TJ as a keeper from last year and it's costing me a 9th round pick....so sheet ya - I'm high on him!

 

[BigRed]

- Harrington looked pretty good

- Several REALLY nice catches by various ATL WRs and the backup TE. Horn probably had the best.

- Agree Norwood looked quick and decisive

- T Jones looked OK/pretty good. Not great.

 

[FavreCo]

WRs not 'dropping' passes.....vick no where to be seen....interesting.

 

[Anthony Borbely]

WRs not 'dropping' passes.....vick no where to be seen....interesting.

Yeah, it was Vicks fault that WRs dropped passes.

 

[krsone21]

WRs not 'dropping' passes.....vick no where to be seen....interesting.

Yeah, it was Vicks fault that WRs dropped passes.

Actually yes it could be Vicks fault that WR's dropped passes because he can't throw and with a poor throwing ball it could look like the WR could not catch. Now with a QB that can actually pass, the WR's on the team might actually look like they can catch.

 

[zamboni]

Joey Harrington made some nice throws on a scoring drive at the end of the 1st quarter -

I was at the game last night and Joey looked surprisingly poised. From the WR standpoint, Roddy White was targeted often. Pre-season disclaimers aside, it's still worth noting for some indication of where the targets may be distributed. To be fair though, I didn't see Crumpler in there, so it was all to the WRs.Agree with much of what has been said - Jones and Norwood looked pretty good, although Norwood didn't seem as powerful as I thought he was. Don't be surprised to see Murghelli (sp?) indeed be the goal line guy. Clemens impressed, albeit against second/third/fourth stringers.I think the most telling thing of the night from a Jets fan perspective is seeing Kendall sitting on the bench by himself. Clearly some bad blood there.

 

[Childress]

I'm watching this game right now and I ahve a question I was wondering if anyone could help me with.

Is the offensive line of the Jets poor or is the Falcons D line very good?

Thanks Zamboni

 

[zamboni]

Is the offensive line of the Jets poor or is the Falcons D line very good?

Hard to say - despite a few razzle dazzles here and there, the game was definitely plain vanilla in terms of play calling.

 

[Anthony Borbely]

WRs not 'dropping' passes.....vick no where to be seen....interesting.

Yeah, it was Vicks fault that WRs dropped passes.

Actually yes it could be Vicks fault that WR's dropped passes because he can't throw and with a poor throwing ball it could look like the WR could not catch. Now with a QB that can actually pass, the WR's on the team might actually look like they can catch.

Harrington is a "QB who can actually pass?"

 

[sheckiec]

WRs not 'dropping' passes.....vick no where to be seen....interesting.

Yeah, it was Vicks fault that WRs dropped passes.

Actually yes it could be Vicks fault that WR's dropped passes because he can't throw and with a poor throwing ball it could look like the WR could not catch. Now with a QB that can actually pass, the WR's on the team might actually look like they can catch.

Harrington is a "QB who can actually pass?"

Compared to Mike Vick, my 6 year old "can actually pass"