Falcons postgame positives and negatives

Cousins is really helping the offense and the offense is better around him as well.

Guess what, Chico? I would be satisfied with 8-8 this season. Kirk is far from the only player who needs to develop for us to improve our W/L record. Plus, I think we need two more drafts and two more FA periods to become a perennial contender. I consider this to be Year 1 of a three year building process. I think Kirk is developing and I hope he gets where we need him to be by the time we're ready to win big.

Yeah I was saying the plateau is 7-9 and 8-8 max with cousins. I would take that this year for sure.

8-8 Would be a great year for what we have been through! i can see this team being very good with another offseason under us..and if cousins does not work out we can always go after a FA QB ..

Yeah I was saying the plateau is 7-9 and 8-8 max with cousins. I would take that this year for sure.

I hope Kirk's ceiling is higher than 8-8. I think he could improve enough to QB a contender. With a much better team around him two years from now, I think we could start to have consistent winning seasons. We might even have a winning record next season if we're lucky.

Kirk is good enough right now to to start on this team, so we should be able to find out soon enough if he has the right stuff. If and when it becomes apparent to the GM and HC that he isn't the right man for the job, I'm confident that they'll make a change.

I'm not an optimist by nature but I am quite confident that Kirk Cousins will develop into a QB more than capable of leading this team into the playoffs and beyond.

I'm not an optimist by nature but I am quite confident that Kirk Cousins will develop into a QB more than capable of leading this team into the playoffs and beyond.

I'm sure we all hope you're right, Davy. We really need a stalwart at the QB position.

BTW, would you happen to be the crazy Redskins fan who was wearing a blow-up Redskins helmet and a Skins jersey while waving a Redskins banner who I saw on TV at the most recent NFL game in London? I'm not quite sure which answer I'm hoping to receive.

;)

The Jets have beaten the Browns Colts and Dolphins? Yes we lost to Miami. They lost to Philly. Every week I hear about how we are giving other teams too much credit. I am going to be the first to say we are giving them too much.
To quote so many other posts about so many other games "when the hell did they become the 85 Bears?" Oh and I will add that Ryan Fitzpatrick stinks. Bring em on!I can't speak for anyone else. I have given each opponent the the credit I think they deserve. I thought we matched up quite well with all the opponents we've faced thus far. So when some people were throwing their hands up saying we can't beat the Falcons I wasn't one of them. That's not how I view a team. I try to look objectively at each team we face and think about the ways we can come out with a W. And they better have a solid game plan and come to play because its going to tough.

Imo the Jets are the toughest team we've faced thus far; that is not to say I don't think we can win. The 2 thoughts are mutually exclusive.

I know many in this forum have chest puffing disdain for advanced stats but Football Outsider's rates the Jets defense as #2 overall #5 vs the pass and #1 vs the run. And before you excuse away their rankings FBO accounts for the strength of the competition better then raw defense stats like yards allowed or points allowed. Then you look at their personnel and coaching. Both are very good.

Revis and Cromartie can't cover EVERYONE. Going to be a lot of underneath throws and hopefully they don't have the LB tackling that Atlanta did. Every time we caught an underneath ball, it feel like our guys went down instantly.

I'm sure we all hope you're right, Davy. We really need a stalwart at the QB position.

BTW, would you happen to be the crazy Redskins fan who was wearing a blow-up Redskins helmet and a Skins jersey while waving a Redskins banner who I saw on TV at the most recent NFL game in London? I'm not quite sure which answer I'm hoping to receive.

;)


No, that wasn't me, but if the Redskins ever do come to Wembley I'll be there looking equally ridiculous. :cheeky:

No, that wasn't me, but if the Redskins ever do come to Wembley I'll be there looking equally ridiculous. :cheeky:

I read somewhere that the Skins are one of the candidates to play in London next season!