Falcons to face Packers in NFC Championship Game

Said Eaves, “I was at the Georgia Dome last Sunday when the Falcons rocked the Seahawks and that has pumped up everyone to take on the Packers”. During the 2016 regular season, he threw for 28 touchdowns and only two interceptions in 12 games.

“It’s going to be hard for the fans and the media to realize how hard it is to do that, but for us in here it’s an overwhelming, unbelievable emotional part that goes into it to get to this point”. Matt Ryan’s impact on the Falcons over the years can not be overstated.

The sellout crowd chanted “MVP!. MVP!”.

That’s why some people are leary of Ryan being the MVP of the league this season and ebb more toward proven commodities like Rodgers or Brady.

Then, after a one-point home loss to Kansas City in Week 13, Quinn said his team became “more connected, and our defense started to gain some confidence”. “I appreciate our fans”.

“From the opening kickoff, the dome was rocking”, Ryan said. Pittsburgh were 12th, Green Bay 22nd and Atlanta 25th.

The NFC Championship could be a shootout of the highest calibre with Rodgers, who led the league with 40 touchdown passes and Ryan, second with 38, at the controls of two high-powered attacks going against leaky defences. With the likes of Julio Jones, Mohamed Sanu, Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman, Atlanta possesses a variety of options on offense that can stop any defense in its tracks. “The quarterback gets the ball out, he doesn’t turn the ball over, so that will do it”. “That will do it”. Despite Atlanta having the home turf advantage, Aaron Rodgers is almost unstoppable in the last eight weeks. Jones was targeted just five times and held to a season-low three catches for 29 yards, although he was dealing with ongoing toe and ankle injuries. The pressure for this game is all on Ran and the Falcons.

Not only did he just up and shove Ross Cockrell to the ground after a play in the 3rd quarter last night, he also went off on the officiating crew. Rodgers’ top weapon had 94 yards and a touchdown that day, and he got better from there. “That’s just kind of the year we’ve had”. “It was more of the same”.

When the two teams last met Rodgers threw for 246 yards, four TDs and managed a 125.5 QB rating.

The game shifted the Falcons’ way when a holding penalty wiped out an 80-yard punt return by Devin Hester and left Seattle, leading 10-7 after a 33-yard field goal by Hauschka, deep in its own territory.

“It was a huge turnaround”.

“They didn’t run for a lot of yards today but they ran well enough”, Carroll said. It’s the fourth all-time NFC title game for the Falcons and first since the 2012 season.

“The game hinged there”, Carroll said.

Ryan hit Gabriel over the top for a 47-yard TD in the first Packers-Falcons meeting back on October 30. “Instead it turned around”. The singer allegedly plans to bring his son for the next playoff game and wants him to support the Falcons despite the fact that Future Jr’s step-father, Wilson, plays for the Seahawks. They do, however, need to find a way to contain them at times. Green Bay wasn’t able to slow them down back in Week 8 and probably won’t on Sunday.

When asked about the biggest contributor to the regular season six-game winning streak outside of Aaron Rodgers, McCarthy pinpointed turnovers as the difference. Now that Rodgers has Montgomery and Cobb healthy, look for those numbers to only go up this time around.