Horton hopes to hear more about his status by TuesdayMike Florio, profootballtalk.com Amid reports that the Cardinals hope to hire Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy to be Arizona’s latest head coach and to keep Ray Horton as the team’s defensive coordinator, that plan is news to Horton. A source with knowledge of the situation t… |
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The Falcons will surely defend the 49ers' rushing attack in the NFC title game better than the Packers did, but Andrew Perloff still feels Colin Kaepernick and Co. will head to the Super Bowl. |
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Judy Battista, nytimes.com A preview of the N.F.C. championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Last night’s game in San Francisco was a pretty good one, especially for the home team. But 92 folks who paid for tickets left prematurely, and involuntarily. According to the Associated Press, 92 fans were ejected during the 49ers’ 45-31 victory ov… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Falcons defense spent most of the fourth quarter getting torched by Russell Wilson and the rest of the Seahawks offense, but the Falcons scored last and that means members of their defense were free to crow after the game. Alex Marvez of FOXSports.c… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com Atlanta 30, Seattle 28: Seattle's all-pro shit stirrer, Richard Sherman, somehow manages to win this interaction that began with Roddy White burning the Seahawks defense for a 47-yard touchdown-Ohhh you got a touchdown, gooood for youuuu-even though t |
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The Falcons added plenty of drama to their 30-28 win over the Seahawks. Chris Burke examines Atlanta's escape job, Russell Wilson's brilliance, questionable strategies and more. |
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Maggie Hendricks, yahoo.com The Atlanta Falcons earned their first playoff win with Matt Ryan as quarterback, and they did it in heart attack-inducing manner. After pulling out to a 20-0 lead, the Falcons came close to dropping the home game to the Seattle Seahawks. Atlanta found … |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com Sometimes, as an athlete, you define yourself in a losing effort. And in the year of the rookie quarterback, it was the last one standing who may have just done that. Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks came into the 2012 NFL season as a too-short th… |
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Quick Take: 49ers at FalconsJan 13
Five things to know about the San Francisco 49ers' matchup against the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday in the Georgia Dome: 1. QB matchup. The 49ers' Colin Kaepernick ranked third and the Atlanta Falcons' Matt Ryan ranked fourth i… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Matt Bryant kicked a 49-yard field goal with 8 seconds left and the Atlanta Falcons bounced back after blowing a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter, defeating Russell Wilson and the gutty Seattle Seahawks 30-28 in an NFC divisional playoff game Sunday. |
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The Falcons blew a 20-point lead, but not the game. Atlanta stormed down the field in the final seconds to kick a game-winning field goal and pull off the 30-28 win over Seattle. |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Mayors of rival cities make cities make light-hearted bets on the outcome of sporting events all the time. Just yesterday the Packers-49ers game had chocolates, cheese curds, sparkling wine, "a free admission day to the Children's Museum" and … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Falcons answered one Seattle touchdown drive with an impressive drive of their own, but they couldn’t do it a second time and we’ve got a close game in Atlanta. Russell Wilson flicked a short touchdown pass to Zach Miller with 9:13 left in the fou… |
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Thoughts on the Seattle Seahawks' performance during their 30-28 defeat to the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC divisional round Sunday: What it means: The Seahawks lost a heartbreaker after their fourth-quarter pass defense faltered once again, a recurring t… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com The Seattle Seahawks went into the visitors' locker room at the Georgia Dome In Atlanta down 20-0, and nobody to blame but themselves. A defense that has been stout all season allowed 268 yards on 34 plays, and the Falcons converted four of their seven … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com An ugly half ended in ugly fashion for the Seahawks. The Seahawks drove the ball inside the Falcons’ 10-yard line as time ran down in the second quarter, but a false start and a sack by Jonathan Babineaux pushed them back with no timeouts left to stop t… |
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Maggie Hendricks, yahoo.com Throughout the NFC divisional playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons, Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman pulled out the best of his smack talk. After disrupting a sure touchdown early in the game, Sherman signaled that the Fal… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Just before Atlanta burned Richard Sherman for a 46-yard touchdown pass and a 20-0 lead, Thom Brenaman of FOX said that Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley indicated on Saturday that he’ll interview for two head-coaching jobs other than the Eagle… |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com Man, life is tough for a kicker. You get all the blame (and death threats) for losses when you miss a game-winner; you fight for your job with every single soccer player/college kicker/donkey who wanders into camp; and since you're not a hulking physica… |
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The Seattle Seahawks bear full responsibility for their 20-0 halftime deficit against the Atlanta Falcons. They've surrendered seven points off a Marshawn Lynch fumble. They've gotten zero points from two red zone possessions. One of those drives ended … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com A slow start for the Seahawks in their Wild Card game against the Redskins meant they had to come back from a 14-0 deficit to move onto Sunday’s date with the Falcons. They’re digging themselves another hole. They trail the Falcons 10-0 near the end o… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com Seattle at Atlanta 1:00 p.m. (FOX): Well, it's put up or shut up for the "Falcons stink in the playoffs" narrative. It really could not have shaken out any worse for them, though, as the white-hot Seattle Seahawks come into town. While Atlanta… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Chargers added another name to their list of coaching candidates on Saturday when former Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt interviewed for their head coaching job. Whisenhunt was fired at the end of the regular season after the Cardinals finished the y… |
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Falcons 10, Seahawks 0Jan 13
Can the top-seeded Falcons avoid their fifth straight playoff loss? They'll have to cool off Russell Wilson and the streaking visiting Seahawks. Follow the divisional round matchup here. |
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Roddy White: ‘If Russell Wilson is better than Matt Ryan, I don’t know nothing about football’Jan 13
Doug Farrar, yahoo.com There's no question that the marquee matchup in the divisional round game between the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks is the Falcons' outstanding receivers versus Seattle's big, physical cornerbacks. Roddy White and Julio Jones are a nightmare for … |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Falcons listed defensive end John Abraham as questionable for their Divisional Round game with the Seahawks and the answer wound up being a positive one. Abraham is in the lineup and expected to start for the Falcons after spraining his ankle in the… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Packers left San Francisco as 45-31 losers to the 49ers and members of the Colin Kaepernick admiration society. Watching Kaepernick light up the defense for 263 passing yards and 181 rushing yards, the most ever by an NFL quarterback, left the archi… |
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Here are the inactives for today's matchup: Seahawks: CB Byron Maxwell, LB Allen Bradford, CB DeShawn Shead, G Rishaw Johnson, OL Mike Person, DT Jaye Howard, WR Deon Butler Falcons: QB Dominique Davis, WR Tim Toone, CB Chris Owens, G Phillipkeith Manle… |
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Join our ESPN.com NFL experts for the NFC throw down between the Seattle Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons. Contribute your thoughts and questions beginning at 1 p.m. ET. See you there. Countdown Live: Seahawks-Falcons |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Green Bay receivers Donald Driver and Greg Jennings both acknowledged in the locker room following Saturday’s loss to the 49ers that they might have played their last games with the Packers. The 37-year-old Driver caught just eight passes in 2012, and i… |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- That settles that. Saturday night proved beyond any doubt that Colin Kaepernick is the best quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and resoundingly so. Better than Alex Smith? Time to aim higher. Kaepernick was better than Green Bay's… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com Through his two seasons as the San Francisco 49ers' head coach, Jim Harbaugh has espoused a theory of offensive football that seems to go against the NFL grain. While many teams were heading in a pass-first direction, Harbaugh stuck to his guns, believi… |
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