Paul K has a great piece on the rise of Damian Williams. It's taken Williams a while to start cashing in on his potential, but over the past few weeks he's really been stepping up. Hopefully last week was his coming out party as a legit NFL wide receiver, because Hasselbeck desperately needs one to compliment Nate Washington.

 Grantland writer, and former Football Outsiders scribe, Bill Barnwell lauds our D's outstanding performance against the Panthers. Barnwell has great tidbits on how oppressive our defense was (if only for a day), and contends that they may have had the best day of any unit in the league on that particular Sunday.

 Playing the Tackle position. We can still do it:

Tennessee Titans: The duo of Michael Roos and David Stewart rank fifth and seventh in Pass Blocking Efficiency at 96.8 and 96.7.

 Playing the NFC. We can still do that to.

 How good was the front office's move to get Matt Hasselbeck? Just read at this article reviewing the veteran QB options from this past offseason.

 Brothers Jordan and Jonathan Babineaux will face-off for the first time since the Seahawks played the Falcons next week.

 Sunday's game will be a homecoming for Titans TE Jared Cook and LB Gerald McRath, who both grew-up close to Atlanta.

 Here's the recap of Mike Smith's conference call with the Nashville media.

 Jim Wyatt takes a look at what Jerry Gray looks for in a blitzer, and hears that the Falcons are anticipating seeing the increased number of blitzes we threw at the Panthers.

 Barret Ruud was impressed with how badly Colin McCarthy out shined any performance he's had with the Titans.

 GNR's Duff McKagan, Pantera's Phil Anselmo, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the NFL... yes please.

I'm surely not alone in being eager to see how badly VY's first start for the Eagles goes this weekend.

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