Peter King: Texans, Falcons ugly losses give Super Bowl race wide-open feelPeter King, CNNSI.com Not too excited about the top seeds in the NFC and AFC, are you, in the wake of bad losses by the Falcons and Texans in Week 14? There's a reason. Atlanta and Houston are clearly vulnerable entering the last three weeks of the regular season. |
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D. Orlando Ledbetter, ajc.com FLOWERY BRANCH – Minutes after the 30-20 loss to Carolina, tight end Tony Gonzalez admitted to hearing things. What he heard was people jumping off the Falcons’ bandwagon. But some folks have clearly never been sold on the team tied for the best recor… |
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The Texans and Falcons look likely for the No. 1 seeds, but is anyone scared? Both teams look vulnerable, Peter King writes, and having home-field isn't all it's cracked up to be. |
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D. Orlando Ledbetter, ajc.com FLOWERY BRANCH — The Falcons defense has struggled against Carolina’s zone read option offense this season. The Panthers rushed for a season-high 199 yards against the Falcons on Sept. 30 and nearly duplicated the effort with 195 yards in their 30-20 … |
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Around the NFC SouthDec 11, 2012
Let's take a run through the top headlines from around the division: ATLANTA FALCONS The Falcons lost on Sunday, so it’s time for another round of “Bash The Falcons." A lot of people have said the Falcons aren’t as good as their record indicates. T… |
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D. Orlando Ledbetter, ajc.com FLOWERY BRANCH — If the playoffs started today, the Falcons would be the top seed in the NFC. That doesn’t sit well with NBC analyst Rodney Harrison. During halftime of Sunday’s night game, host Dan Patrick asked him to pick the best team in the NFC… |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com FOXBORO, Mass. -- Okay, let's do what you're never supposed to do in the NFL, and get ahead of ourselves. It's allowed. Week 14 is over and it's practically mid-December. |
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The Texans made the wrong kind of statement in a 42-14 drubbing by the Patriots. Houston might still claim the AFC's top seed, says Don Banks, but Monday proved who's the real No. 1. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com If you checked out Miami’s 101-92 win against the Hawks last night, then you probably heard this statistic more than once: Atlanta had not allowed a single team to shoot above 50 percent against them all season. Impressive. Fittingly, they went into Sou… |
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