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Mile High Mania
03-02-2008, 02:52 PM
Interesting...

6 years for $34.5 with $15M guaranteed.
ChiefsCountry
03-02-2008, 02:54 PM
No McFadden to the ATL.
The Bad Guy
03-02-2008, 02:58 PM
The Jets should draft him.
CupidStunt
03-02-2008, 03:01 PM
Possibly bad news for our pick, but then I don't think they'd have taken McFadden, anyway.
Tribal Warfare
03-02-2008, 03:04 PM
McFadden will be a Raider next year
milkman
03-02-2008, 03:07 PM
Possibly bad news for our pick, but then I don't think they'd have taken McFadden, anyway.

Possibly.

But I could see this setting them up to take Ryan.
blueballs
03-02-2008, 03:08 PM
Will move all the way across the country
and will probably still have LT whinning in his ear
could write a best seller about the SUPA CHARGERS
Bill S Preston
03-02-2008, 03:12 PM
McFadden will be a Raider next year




I think that you're right, all their offseason moves seem to point towards it. Hopefully Davis will live another twenty years.....
OnTheWarpath15
03-02-2008, 03:13 PM
That realistically sets up the debate of Matt Ryan or Jake Long to ATL.

If I'm Atlanta, I take Long and get a QB in a later round.
KevB
03-02-2008, 03:20 PM
If Ryan is deemed a consensus top 5 pick when all is said and done, that's where they'll go. They need a new hyped QB to take the residual attention away from Vick once and for all. Ryan and Turner are a nice new start for them.
DaneMcCloud
03-02-2008, 03:21 PM
That realistically sets up the debate of Matt Ryan or Jake Long to ATL.

If I'm Atlanta, I take Long and get a QB in a later round.

Except that Atlanta need a "face of the franchise" and a d-lineman or o-lineman doesn't necessarily provide that.

I'm suspecting that Arthur Blank is pushing for Ryan.
OnTheWarpath15
03-02-2008, 03:26 PM
Except that Atlanta need a "face of the franchise" and a d-lineman or o-lineman doesn't necessarily provide that.

I'm suspecting that Arthur Blank is pushing for Ryan.

They also need someone to block for that "face." Their OL is in shambles.

Taking Long, then someone like Henne, Brohm or Flacco in the 2nd is MUCH better value for them than taking Ryan @ 3.

JMO.
Iowanian
03-02-2008, 03:42 PM
Turner and Norwood will be a very good backfield if they can put anything resembling an offensive line in front of them.
DaneMcCloud
03-02-2008, 03:48 PM
They also need someone to block for that "face." Their OL is in shambles.

Taking Long, then someone like Henne, Brohm or Flacco in the 2nd is MUCH better value for them than taking Ryan @ 3.

JMO.

There's no doubt in my mind that your scenario is the correct course of action for the Falcons.

I just believe that Arthur Blank won't take this course, due to his love affair with "Superstars".
the Talking Can
03-02-2008, 03:53 PM
If Ryan is deemed a consensus top 5 pick when all is said and done, that's where they'll go. They need a new hyped QB to take the residual attention away from Vick once and for all. Ryan and Turner are a nice new start for them.

ditto
Eleazar
03-02-2008, 04:15 PM
arthur blank needs someone squeaky clean to put on the cover of the media guide and signal a new era. they will take Ryan.
Mr. Laz
03-02-2008, 04:20 PM
The Jets should draft him.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Rain Man
03-02-2008, 04:22 PM
I don't mind seeing that mad dwarf out of our division.