Tag Archives: Mike Mularkey

First Quarter: Falcons Moving the Ball

By John Manasso | Published: December 13, 2009
On Monday when Falcons Head Coach Mike Smith addressed the media he said as part of his opening statement that he wanted to correct something he said the day before after the team’s 34-7 loss to the Eagles. The Falcons did not get beat in all three phases of the game against the Eagles — offense, defense [...]
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Third Quarter: Hanging Tough

By John Manasso | Published: November 3, 2009
The Falcons are hanging in there. If they can pull off this upset, it would be a major achievement. The defense forced the Saints to go without any points  — a huge accomplishment in light of the Saints’ 288 yards offense in the first half. In fact, it was only the third time this season [...]
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First Quarter: Falcons Making Big Plays

By John Manasso | Published: November 2, 2009
Wow, how’s that for some scheming? For all of those who question the Falcons’ personnel in the secondary, the Falcons coaches do a great job of finding ways to give up a lot of yards (they rank 25th in the NFL) but not a lot of points (they rank eighth) and to hide whatever weakness [...]
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First Quarter: Big First Drive

By John Manasso | Published: October 25, 2009
Wow, that first drive by the Falcons was a clinic. Funny how on Friday Falcons’ Offensive Coordinator Mike Mularkey was being questioned about his team’s slow starts the previous two games and had this to say: “If it stands out in people’s minds, then it means we’ve been doing pretty good with it.” True, but the Falcons [...]
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Pregame Blog: Coordinator Fridays

By John Manasso | Published: October 25, 2009
Fridays are the quietest days, media-wise, at the Falcons’ practice facility in Flowery Branch. Usually by then all of your reporting and writing are done for the week and the team’s practice is the shortest. However, the highlight is that Friday is the one day of the week when Offensive Coordinator Mike Mularkey and Defensive Coordinator [...]
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Inactives: Norwood and Mughelli Out

By John Manasso | Published: October 25, 2009
I just got the list of inactives and the headliners for the Falcons are running back Jerious Norwood (hip) and fullback Ovie Mughelli (calf). I don’t think those are hugely surprising considering that neither practiced all week and that Norwood was listed as doubtful on Friday and Mughelli was listed as questionable. This will be [...]
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Mughelli, Bears’ Hillenmeyer Inactive

By John Manasso | Published: October 18, 2009
When it comes to the Falcons’ running game against the Bears’ defense tonight, both teams will be undermanned. Falcons’ fullback Ovie Mughelli, a key blocker in the run game who did not practice all week because of a calf injury he suffered last Sunday against San Francisco, was listed as inactive. So was the Bears’ starting [...]
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Three and Out: Bye Bye Wednesday

By John Manasso | Published: September 30, 2009
Usually Wednesday is the busiest day of the week for me up here. It’s one day of the week when Michael Turner, Matt Ryan and Tony Gonzalez talk, plus it’s the day when you do conference calls with the opposing team’s coach and a player. Obviously, with this being the bye week, there were no [...]
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