Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 + Season Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 + Season Week 9 Week 11 Cumulative Totals to be posted after Week 13.Week 12 (@ Atlanta Falcons):A 4th heart-breaking loss this season with plenty of plays left on the field by both the offense and defense. The defense did a poor job of tackling otherwise we could have bottled up this Matt Ryan-led offense. They did nothing fancy, but Ryan found a couple holes in our zones and took the short passes all day. If we could have cut out the YAC, this game was ours for the taking. Disappointing, but oh well. I'm gonna keep this short and sweet.
My Coverage Player of the Week:Week 1: Tramon Williams
Week 2: Sam Shields
Week 3: Nick Collins
Week 4: Charles Woodson
Week 5: Tramon Williams
Week 6: Nick Collins
Week 7: Nick Collins
Week 8: Charles Woodson
Week 9: Charles Woodson/Tramon Williams
Week 11: Tramon Williams
Week 12: Charlie PeprahHats off to Pep this week for playing a great game in coverage as well as making a couple plays near the goal line to put us one play away from halting the Falcons offense at the 1 yard line. He made two nice plays in coverage on Gonzalez at pivotal times, though he was credited with only one. He kept Gonzalez out of the end zone with blanket coverage on the play that was upheld. He was also successful on a similar play on the 4th and 3 that should have been challenged, which would have taken 7 off the board for Atlanta and changed the tide of the game. He's playing well right now. The injury to Bigby concerns me only so far as depth.
Tramon allowed a couple plays here and there, but we saw a lot more zone out of this defense than we're accustomed to it appeared. Most, if not all, of his yards were given up to Roddy White and Tony Gonzalez. The fact that the Falcons were only able to hold White to 49 yards shows, all on underneath routes beating relaxed coverage, does speak where his "metrics" cannot. Woodson also played another solid game. He pitched in a bit on White and was only truly "beat" once, to which he limited the gain to a 5 yard holding penalty which all but eliminated White's big play opportunity.
Collins bit on a double move to give up our only TD on the day. It looked bad, but this isn't the first time Gonzalez has done that to a defensive back.
Shields played well and allowed his only completion on the last drive in off coverage. The quick 4 yard shot was ended quickly by him.
Hawk struggled early on and was probably primarily responsible for Turner's biggest run of the day, but rebounded to make some nice plays, most of them in the run game today.
Quick Cum. #'s:Woodson: 25/48 (52.1%), 278 yards, 5.79 YPA, 2 TD, 2 INT, 66.1 QB Rating (10 penalties)
Williams: 31/62 (50.0%), 312 yards, 5.03 YPA, 1 TD, 4 INT, 43.2 QB Rating (1 penalty)
Shields: 16/25 (64.0%), 256 yards, 10.24 YPA, 2 TD, 1 INT, 108.1 QB Rating [url=Pro_News/aid=154.html]full article[/url].