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Ricardo Allen began listing the weapons on the Atlanta Falcons‘ offense and shook his head.
Wide receivers Julio Jones Devin Shore Jersey , Mohamed Sanu and Calvin Ridley. Running backs Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. Quarterback Matt Ryan.
The safety said facing those playmakers is like a bad dream he must revisit every practice. But Allen also smiled because that’s good news for Atlanta’s 2018 outlook. ”Oh, man, you’ve got Julio, you’ve got Sanu, you’ve got Ridley on the field at the same time and you’ve got those running backs,” Allen said Saturday. ”Who do you match up against? Who do you put your best players on? It’s like a matchup nightmare.”
The front office has taken action to make those playmakers happy – and safe.
Ryan has a new five-year, $150 million contract extension. Jones was given an adjustment to his five-year, $71.5 million contract and a promise the deal will be renegotiated after the season. Left tackle Jake Matthews agreed to five-year, $75 million extension on Friday, and the team’s top offseason acquisition was right guard Brandon Fusco, adding more stability to the offensive line.
Ridley, a wide receiver from Alabama, was the team’s first-round draft pick .
Ryan is 33. Jones is 29. Coleman can be a free agent after the season. The Falcons are attempting to seize this opportunity to take full advantage of this offense – most of the unit led the league in scoring two years ago.
”To go up against it every day, I personally don’t think any other offense that has this many weapons from sideline to sideline to give us that much pressure Ryan Dzingel Jersey ,” Allen said. ”Then you’ve got Matty Ice out there putting the ball anywhere he can. It’s a hard matchup and every day is a challenge and that’s a good thing.”
The Falcons led the league with 33.8 points a game in their 2016 Super Bowl season with former coordinator Kyle Shanahan, now San Francisco’s coach, in charge of the offense. In Steve Sarkasian’s 2017 debut as offensive coordinator, Atlanta fell back to 15th in scoring, at 22.1 points per game.
Center Alex Mack says the Falcons are starting faster in their second year with Sarkasian.
”I just see it as a way to start fast and build,” Mack said Saturday. ”As an offense in training camp, you can start at a more advanced point than you started the year before, so you can get into the details and work on the little things and be really on the same page.”
The Falcons opened training camp with Freeman and Jones at full health.
Jones played every game but dealt with a long list of injuries last season. Freeman missed two games with his second concussion of the year, including one last preseason, and also was slowed by a knee injury at the end of the season.
”It is awesome to see Free back, feeling like himself,” coach Dan Quinn said. ”His aggressive nature always comes out and he’s off to a great start.”
Quinn said the familiarity that comes with the offense’s second season with Sarkasian is crucial.
”I think anytime you’re around guys for more than a year, he has such a clear vision of what guys can do,” Quinn said. ”As small as that may sound to you Youth Greg Olsen Jersey , it’s a big deal.”
NOTES: DE Takkarist McKinley left practice with an apparent right shoulder injury. He has had surgeries on both shoulders the last two years. Quinn said Saturday’s injury is not believed to be serious. … The Falcons have sold all 60,000 tickets, at $5 each, for their practice at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday. It will be the team’s first practice in pads.
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Former Cowboys Pro Bowlers Dez Bryant and DeMarco Murray find themselves united again, only now they are joined as one-time Fantasy football anchors who have not received a nibble from an NFL team.
Both will sign at some point between now and the start of the regular season, as injuries and/or depth issues arise in training camps. When it comes to whether Bryant and Murray still have any Fantasy value, drafters will have to proceed with caution.
Regardless of where he signs, the days of viewing Bryant as a WR1 are long over. Last season marked the third straight season he both failed to eclipse more than 838 yards and catch barely half of the passes targeted to him. After a 2014 season in which he caught 88 passes for 1,320 yards and a league-high 16 touchdowns, Bryant’s receptions and yardage per game have taken a dive. Since then, those numbers have dropped as low as 3.4 catches per game and 44.6 yards per contest, both in 2015. A best-case scenario for Bryant would be to go to a pass-friendly team with a competent quarterback, which would offer some hope for him as a WR3/Flex option. At 29, there’s a glimmer of optimism that he can be useful but Womens Ben Roethlisberger Jersey , at least for now, Bryant is in ”Hmm…he’s still on the board?” stage of his career where he’s a late-round play.
Murray has never been the same since the Cowboys gave him a whopping 457 total touches in 2014, the sixth-highest total in NFL history. He was woefully ineffective with the Eagles in 2015 before a revival with the Titans a year later when he accounted for 1,664 yards from scrimmage on 346 total touches, sparking false hope. Murray fell to 925 yards last season on 223 total touches, his lowest since 2012.
At 30, Murray is probably at the stage of his career where he’s more of a specialist. He remains a good receiver, so it’s not hard to envision him being a third-down back with the potential of 45-50 catches a season. After 1,921 touches in his seven-year career, Murray no longer can be considered a workhorse back, but there can be a place for him on a Fantasy roster, especially in PPR formats.
BROOKLYN NETS D12
Dwight Howard has another jersey for his collection after being acquired by the Nets from the Hornets on Wednesday. No longer the monster he was in his prime for Fantasy basketball players, Howard still put up 16.6 points, 12.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game last season Womens Jaroslav Halak Jersey , ending his 2017-18 campaign with 11 double-doubles in his last 12 games.
Howard will be 33 early next season and still can solid production. In an NBA deep with younger, more versatile centers, Howard will fall into the mid-to-late stages of most drafts yet will also have to be considered a strong Sell High candidate with the Nets set to give second-year center Jarrett Allen (who is a strong sleeper) more minutes.
BREAK ON THROUGH (To the Other Closer)
Giants closer Hunter Strickland slammed (or rather, punched) away his potential career year when he lost a one-round bout with a clubhouse door. Strickland, who had 13 saves, will now miss up to eight weeks.
Enter Sam Dyson, who now becomes San Francisco’s stopper after rebounding from a horrific 2017 campaign. Dyson isn’t a hard-throwing beast, but he did have 38 saves for the Rangers in 2016 and has the support of manager Bruce Bochy. That alone will raise his value in leagues where he currently sits on the waiver wire.
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This column was provided to The Associated Press by the Fantasy Sports Network, http://www.officialusafootballs.com/green-bay-packers
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