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Five (or Six) Links to Review Mini Camp

I’ve been in this business for seven seasons and, without fail, the best barometer for preseason expectations — perhaps success — comes with the amount of media attention. The earlier the better. So imagine the reaction when there were almost too many links to list from the Falcons weekend mini camp. Sure, I could have pulled together some [...]
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Mini Camp Chat with Yasinskas

I spent some time Friday chatting with experienced football writer and all-around “friend of the program” Pat Yasinskas. The ESPN.com NFC South Blogger tries to hit each team in the offseason and will attend two days of Falcons mini camp. Besides calling our Flowery Branch home the “nicest practice facility in the NFC South,” Yaskinsas shared [...]
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Birdseed: May 8, 2010

My pasty white legs and I made it through the first two-a-day of mini camp without much of a sun burn. That’s surprising considering the surface-of-the-sun like heat that found its way to Flowery Branch almost three months early. Not sure what to say to the 163 people who looked at the picture of my legs on Twitter. With that [...]
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What to Watch at Mini Camp

In just more than two hours the Falcons take the field for the first real “practice” of 2010 — a mini camp workout in Flowery Branch to knock off some rust and start laying the foundation for the pre- and regular-season. It’s easy to jump to conclusions with the first snaps on mini camp Friday but [...]
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Birdseed: April 27, 2010

As if you didn’t need another sign Falcons football is right around the corner, the team announced mini camp dates this week. It’s the NFL version of spring practice, only this group includes rookies and free agent additions. It’s where a team starts to form. By the time the Falcons take the field for the first time in [...]
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Birdseed: April 21, 2010

If you’ve been keeping up with my 2010 mock drafts you know there’s plenty of paths the Falcons may take through the selection process. You also know a lot depends on the actions of teams with the first 18 picks. So why do football fans and journalists make mock drafts in the first place? For some, it’s [...]
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Birdseed: April 20, 2010

The NFL will unveil the 2010 regular-season schedule at 7 p.m. Tuesday, making a busy day of pre-draft preparations a little more interesting. At the very least, the schedule release is a respite from the topsy turvy world of draft planning and speculation (I don’t know about anyone else, but by this time in the pre-draft season I grow [...]
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Welcome to Pro Day Season

So how do NFL teams fill the time between the Scouting Combine and the NFL Draft? Easy. Countless hours of reviewing film, tweaking player grades, stacking a draft board and attending pro days and private workouts. The Falcons are in the midst of this busy season and, from time to time, you may catch wind of a [...]
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Birdseed: March 15, 2010

We’re in the midst of one of the most interesting periods of the NFL calendar. The free agent signing period is more than week old. The big-splash acquisitions (see Robinson-comma-Dunta) are out of the way and the slow, day-to-day debate on second-level players has taken shape. Too early for concrete news on the NFL Draft but [...]
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What They’re Saying About Robinson

BLOGGER’S NOTE: These comments were compiled by members of the Falcons Football Communications Staff — one of the best in the business. Comments address the Falcons signing of cornerback Dunta Robinson, who spent the first six seasons of his career with the Houston Texans. John McClain, Houston Chronicle “Terrific move for Dunta and the Falcons. He gets [...]
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