Atlanta Falcons-San Francisco 49ers: Falcons Strike Gold

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Published: October 13, 2009

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... to overcome the top-five Niners defense. It goes to show you, the Falcons cannot be underestimated.

"All week we’ve talked about going out to the west coast and taking care of business." said Coach Mike Smith. "We feel like we did a lot of things well today. There are some things we need to do better but we came out here and accomplished the things we wanted to accomplish."

I believe the greatest accomplishment was the statement it made to the NFL. This isn't the same NFL team football fans are used to seeing. In my pre-game write-up, I stated that I felt like this was a statement game and that 476 total yards and 45 points should do the trick.

"Our quarterback [Matt Ryan], threw the ball extremely well." Smith continued. "It was nice to see Roddy White [WR] have the kind of game that he had, over 200 yards of reception. I thought that our defense really applied the pressure from the beginning and did a nice job."

Both Ryan and White had career days. ...

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