svillefalcon wrote:Oh man, i cannot wait for this one!! I think this will be a great game. We have a stud running back in Bullock just as Boise's Johnson. Both teams will be sporting new QB's hopefully as Turner had his chance and blew it. I think Glaud needs to start. I didnt see anything positive out of Sheehan. I think our defense will continue to get better, we did lose Parks and T-White who were the leaders of our defense. But we have studs such as Diyral Briggs and Erique Dozier to take their place. I also think having a healthy DJ Young in there to clog the middle will help us tremendously against the run. I think we have two stud recievers in CP and the X-Factor Freddie Barnes. The O-Line will be very good again. I am praying nightly that the new kicker and punter can be successful. I think that GB is smart enough to fix the special teams. That easily cost us 2 games last year in Miami and Temple. We need better play out of the secondary, but they were very very young last year and surrendered a lot of big plays that put us in bad situations. I think that a healthy PJ Mahone to go along with Jarret Sanderson give us a great saftey tandem for the next 3 years. And we must not forget about Jahmal Brown. He is a good player.
I think that we are in for a pleasant surprise from our Falcons next year. Now, I am not saying that we are going to go 12-0 or 11-1, but there is no doubt that, especially in the MAC East, we can get to the MAC Title Game in Detroit. I cannot wait for next season to start. Last year couldn't have gone any worse, with the special team play, the injuries and just plain bad luck we suffered. I think that we will be a forced to be reckoned with very shortly.
GO FALCONS!!!
I made a big post on next season in a different thread, I agree with many of your points here.
The secondary must improve, they gave up way too many big plays. If we have sanderson and mahone healthy it will help. It would also help us to get another CB to replace antonio smith because he sucks.
We need to get our best QB on the field to compliment our running game with Bullock. If that is Turner, he should play. If its Glaud, then it should be him, same with Sheehan. We are gonna need better QB play next year if we are truly to be a good offense again.
Partridge and Barnes will be solid receivers I'm sure. But I think we need another guy to compliment them and really be able to run our traditional spread offense. Hopefully the hotshot freshman, Pronty, will be able to do that. Also, if we could get Winovich and Odrobinak involved in the offense it will really help us confuse defenses.
I'm not convinced our defense will ever be that great, but if Young is healthy and we aren't beat up on the D-Line this year it will help us pressure opposing offenses. Along with the secondary, these I think are the keys to a decent defense next year since the linebackers are pretty good.
And then all this, combined with some imaginative coaching by GB, should give us success next year.
