Falcons studs and duds

[longtimefan]

Who

 

[PackerfaninCarolina]

MVP Stud of the game...

TE Robert Tonyan

Other Studs

Rodgers
A Jones
Zadarius
Malik Taylor
J Alexander

Duds
Shepherd not running his route into the end zone

Not calling play action on the 4th down

 

[melvin dangerr]

Studs: Tonyan Ajones Arod
Duds: tackling, injuries, wasted T O’s, Announcers

 

[PackAttack12]

I just want to know how Aaron Rodgers went from a washed up has been, who rebels against the head coach and only wants to do things his way, to a legitimate top 3 candidate for MVP.

 

[scotscheese]

Stud - me, it's now 5am
Jones, and Tonyan

rest of the team no studs or duds, left too many points on the field on O, and too soft at times on D, but only 16 points.

DUD - TACKLING

 

[C-Lee]

LaFleur is looking like coach of the year

 

[twan890]

We need a new category:

studliest stud - Big Bob

 

[Dantés]

I tried to tell y'all... year 2 of this offense.

Matthew The Flower.

 

[RepStar15]

Studs-
Robert Tonyan
Adrian Amos
Z Smith
Aaron Jones
Aaron Rodgers
Jamal Williams
MLF

Duds-
Tackling

 

[tynimiller]

I'll add more tomorrow but Krys "FREAKING" Barnes deserves an award. UDFA not many of you know continues to make me look vastly smarter than I am.

Kudos my man, KUDOS!

 

[Jerellh528]

Studs: Rodgers, tonyan, Lafleur, z.smith.

duds: shepherd

packers are making it look easy so far.

 

[Jerellh528]

This week put Rodgers ahead of Wilson in the way too early mvp race imo.

 

[gbgary]

studs: rodgers, jones, Big Bob, williams, alexander

duds: Steve Levy! over the top. and that retired ref. terrible!

 

[PackAttack12]

A few have already alluded to it, but seriously...Matt LaFleur deserves so much credit for what he's been able to do in 1 1/4 seasons.

18-4, an offense averaging 38 a game, and having Aaron Rodgers looking the best he has looked since late 2016. Rodgers is as sharp as ever, but LaFleur's scheme combined with Rodgers talent is looking like a lethal combination.

Huge props to MLF.

 

[Jerellh528]

LaFleur’s play calling and game plans have been absolute money this year. Huge props.

 

[PackAttack12]

LaFleur’s play calling and game plans have been absolute money this year. Huge props.

Overall game management as well.

 

[C-Lee]

Rodgers is clearly on, but the offense overall is just so clearly night and day compared to last year. It’s so fun to watch.

 

[PackAttack12]

Rodgers is clearly on, but the offense overall is just so clearly night and day compared to last year. It’s so fun to watch.

Every single skill position player is a threat in this offense. When defenses have to respect everything, and when so much looks alike pre-snap, it just creates so much uncertainty for defenses.

And then you have that #12 guy pulling the trigger...

 

[C-Lee]

Every single skill position player is a threat in this offense. When defenses have to respect everything, and when so much looks alike pre-snap, it just creates so much uncertainty for defenses.

And then you have that #12 guy pulling the trigger...

Game 1: Tae
Game 2: Aaron Jones
Game 3: Lazard
Game 4: Tonyan
Game 5: TBD

This offense was legit horrible for the second half of last season. So great to watch this unfold.

 

[LambeauLombardi]

Studs: Tonyan and Lafleur

Duds: DisnESPN announcer's brains and Davante's tweet. I like Adams as a guy but him calling out McKenzie in public seems uncalled for.

Not sure if anyone will mention MVS as a dud but I had to assume Atlanta's main focus on pass defense was on him considering he was the only Packer WR or even TE on the field coming into the game that proved much this season. While I don't think he played great, I think some of that probably had to do with their game plan.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

STUD.....hands done......Matt LaFleur. MLF is now 18-4 as the Packers head coach.

MLF's offensive play calling tonight was brilliant. Better yet, I think it is obvious that #12 and the rest of the team, is now fully on board with that play calling. This offense had every excuse to not play well tonight and MLF knew exactly what to do with it, despite the shortage of weapons. The motion of Ervin early was a huge thing and the announcers never talked about it. I think that helped to set up some confusion with the Falcons defense early. Also, instead of attacking with Jones, MLF said "lets just show you what #12 can do, even without decent wide receivers."

I am going out on a limb and saying this was a game McCarthy might have lost. Even when the Packers were up by an apparent comfortable margin, MLF kept calling for pass plays and Atlanta just didn't have an answer.

Yup, Atlanta was down to their PS in the secondary, but so were the Packers with their WR's.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Anyone know where Preston Smith is? I watched him on several plays and he does not look like the same player as we saw last season.

 

[HardRightEdge]

Duds: DisnESPN announcers brain's and Davante's tweet. I like Adams as a guy but him calling out McKenzie in public seems uncalled for.

I seriously doubt it was the doctors he was calling out. Look toward the football operation. Probably LaFleur. LaFleur held him out in week 2 when Adams wanted to go back in the game.

No harm, no foul. The Packers won, you want players who want to play and get upset when they can't, and Adams gets two more weeks to get back to 100%.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if this was a playoff game he'd have been on the field.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

I seriously doubt it was the doctors he was calling out. Look toward the football operations. Probably LaFleur. LaFleur held him out in week 3 when Adams wanted to go back in the game.

No harm, no foul. The Packers won and you want players who want to play and get upset when they can't.

Agree, this is a good sign of a coach knowing his team well and what he needed to win a game. MLF saw the bye week coming and felt that he could rest guys like Adams and Clark for another 2 weeks. Atlanta being in desperation mode started Julio Jones, now how long did this game set him back?

Had this been a playoff game, I think those guys play, but good call on the Packers for sitting their key injured players out to give them more time to fully heal.

 

[Pugger]

Great win but there were 2 instances in the game that were not great and thus duds: Going for the TD in the second half instead of taking the points and not throwing the ball on the first 2 downs in the first drive right after the half. You don't want to get all the way inside the 5 and come up empty. The Falcons then proceeded to march down the field. Thankfully they had to settle for 3. Atlanta's secondary was a mess and could not really stop AR 97% of the time so it was puzzling to me that we didn't take advantage of it on that first drive.