A few words about yesterday's Falcons game:
- Mike Vick played a better game than Big Ben. Seriously. Ben had the gaudy numbers, but he made countless mistakes (okay four) in the first half for which the Falcons defense refused to punish him.
Vick did get picked twice, but one was on a ridiculous defensive play by
Troy Polamalu - AKA the son of the Flash and a Mutant Wildebeast - that no mere human could make, and the other was on a pass that was in Warrick Dunn's hands yet muffed into the hands of a defender.
Vick also had a few drops, but his targets (except the #1, more on that later) finally shook off their season-long catching funk. That catch by Jenkins was big time and atoned for that perfect touchdown pass that he butchered last week.
- The quarterback of the game was Charlie Batch who was a throwing machine....
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