Falcons coach Mike Smith will not address with his players accusations that Sean Weatherspoon and Jonathan Babineaux deliberately interfered with the New Orleans Saints' pregame warm-up routine Sunday, a source told Ed Werder of ESPN reports. Saints linebackers Scott Shanle and Jonathan Vilma said that the two Falcons walked through their drill and were talking trash. Shanle told ESPN it was the first time he had seen anything like that in his 10 seasons and described the behavior as "disrespectful and classless." Vilma told ESPN that "the Falcons acted like the baddest, toughest team in the league" and that he approached a Falcons assistant coach standing nearby about removing the player, but the coach simply "stood there smiling." A member of the Falcons organization told ESPN that the Saints are hypocrites to complain about another team's behavior even as they endure historic punishment for the alleged bounty scandal. Shanle told Yahoo! Sports that the Falcons' taunting of former Atlanta and current New Orleans linebacker Curtis Lofton before the game helped to fire up the Saints. "They were talking (expletive) to our guy Curtis Lofton," he told the website. "I couldn't even understand them. They were just walking all over our drills trying to mess with him. Vilma went and told their coach it was classless, and they didn't even say anything. It set the tone for the day. It was classless, and they got what they deserved." Source: ESPN.com
wouldn't expect nothing else from this team, organization. I think they want to be good so badly that a little success went to their heads. Any team can be beaten at any time. Win with humility and lose with dignity. The trash talking belongs with the fans. Saying all that I hope they really run up the score when they go to the CrapHole Dome on national tv. The only thing they got going for them is their qb Matty Ice is, at least outwardly, a pretty decent guy. Face of the franchise type person. Hope the team don't drag him down.
not much on players being too friendly before the game. But this game is a fierce rivalry. One most other fans don't really know too much about. They both came into the league at about the same time and been in the same division since. If they both would have been historically good then it would rival the others.
