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If you could take one Buccaneer, who are you adding to the Falcons? from laiyongcai92's blog

  Last week proved to  Youth Keanu Neal Jersey be a tough call for Falcons fans asked to select the one player they would add to Atlanta’s roster from Pittsburgh, though I bet it wasn’t such a difficult call after Cam Hayward and T.J. Watt made Matt Ryan’s life miserable. This week, though, the call is once again a difficult one.That’s because the Falcons are playing the Buccaneers, one of the most bewildering teams in the NFL. Every year, Tampa Bay seems to add fresh talent to their roster, and every year, they seem to come up well short of actually doing anything with it. This week is still very much up in the air—the Bucs are 2-2 and only have one awful game thus far—but it’s fair to wonder if a Mike Smith defense in 2018 can do enough to keep them in games. Still, there’s talent here. You could take a hard look at Ali Marpet to help on the interior of this struggling offensive line, or Demar Dotson and Donovan Smith if you wanted a salve at tackle, though neither player distinguished themselves against a nasty Bears pass rush in Week 4. There’s receiver Mike Evans, who would turn this receiving corps into even more of a ridiculous asset than it already is. And then there’s young Youth Julio Jones Jersey , useful defensive linemen like Noah Spence and Vita Vea who would at least give Atlanta upside and talent along a shaky front, even if neither has done much to this point. Personally, I’d be tempted to go with Marpet. The Falcons have an increasing, uncomfortable number of questions about their offensive line heading into next season, and getting one of the quietly better young interior linemen in the NFC would help take care of that for a few seasons. But the smart pick might still be Gerald McCoy, who remains one of the most potent defensive tackles in the game despite his advancing age, and a nice addition to a defensive line that needs help right now. Who would you pick?Falcons vs. Saints: One reason to feel confident, one reason to worry about Week 3 Every week, there are reasons to feel good about this Falcons team, and reasons to worry an awful lot. Here are those reasons this week against the New Orleans Saints. Feel confident about the Falcons offenseCam Jordan is a threat. The Saints defensive line in general is quite solid, and they have a solid secondary on paper with second year studs Marshon Lattimore and Ken Crawley. On paper.The reality is that this is the weakest defense the Falcons have faced their year by a wide margin. There’s no insanely deep collection of pass rushers like the Eagles brought to bear, and no extremely beefy defensive tackle rotation to worry about. There’s no great linebackers or safeties here to punish the Falcons. There’s just one elite pass rusher http://www.authenticsatlantafalcons.com/cheap-ryan-schraeder-jersey , some very good linemen beside him, and some very good cornerbacks who have scuffled early on in the year. The Falcons just hung 31 points on Carolina and will have failed mightily if they come up significantly short of that against the Saints. Feel worried about stopping the pass How could you not?The Falcons still have one of the better cornerback corps in the game, which goes a very long way against a Saints offense that has been content to spin out shorter and shorter passes as Drew Brees ages. This is still a potent, volume-based attack, however, and the Saints won’t be content to simply throw it to their wide receivers.Instead, look for the Saints to challenge Damontae Kazee and this group of linebackers early by throwing it to their tight end group and (most dangerously) Alvin Kamara. Ideally, the Falcons would be able to clamp down on that early and force Brees to challenge Atlanta’s cornerbacks, who are good enough to at least slow this attack down significantly, if not come away with some crucial interceptions.There’s also the question of whether the pass rush can get home. Grady Jarrett has done yeoman’s work on the interior, but he’s the only defensive lineman getting consistent pressure, with Takkarist McKinley also doing so. Takk is hurt and may not play http://www.authenticsatlantafalcons.com/cheap-ricardo-allen-jersey , though, leaving the Falcons with a potential Vic Beasley/Brooks Reed/Steven Means rotation if Derrick Shelby also can’t go. It’s hard to see a ton of production coming off the edge, and the team’s best hope is probably to see Jarrett and Jack Crawford bringing heat right in Brees’ face. I’m concerned that won’t happen, though, and if Brees can dink and dunk his way down the field to Kamara and leave Duke Riley trying to catch up, the Falcons are in trouble. That sets them up for success on offense more or less across the board, and Kamara could punish this team in the open field. That may not translate to a win for New Orleans, but it’s going to make for a very long afternoon.


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