The loss sucked, but there was a very nice bright spot.  So bright in fact that it gets the first gold egg of the year.

John Carlson

Our new rookie tight end can hang onto the rock, and didn't get hurt.  Both of which are feats the likes of which have not been seen this year.  He was the top reciever with 6 catches for 78 yards, the longest of which was 17 yards.

Honorable mention for this week is Leroy Hill.  He was all over the place an making critical tackles.

First off, no golden egg.  Infact there is a rotten egg.  It gets awarded to our entire:

Special Teams

That was some serious suck ass performance.  And to stand out as a suck performance next to extremely weak offensive performance, you really had to stink.

Now for the happy shiny bright spot in all of this.  The way I figure it our special people cost us 21 point

• 7 for the punt return
• 7 for the fake field goal
• 7 for the quick td after the kickoff return fumble

It was a tight one today between Engram, Hasselbeck and Burleson for the egg winner.  In the end Burleson gets it.  He wanted that game bad. 

His stats may not be that sexy (other than that crazy punt return), but he was  making tough catches and tough returns.

Thanks for fighting Burleson. 

The Rams offense is probably still shaking with fear from the terror that was Tapp on Sunday.  There is now doubt (with the exception of Burleson's kick return) that Tapp deserves this weeks egg.  It was defense that won that game for us, and with 5 tackles, 4 sacks, and a forced fumble Tapp was the one leading that charge.

 I also really enjoyed listening to him in interviews after the game.  Nice to be able to root for a guy like that. 

 
Great job.

Bobby Engram getse the GoldenEgg for the Saints game. That guy is amazing, just like your blanky when you were a kid. He is always there, makes you feel good to see, and never lets you down.

It sucks that we are down our two starters, but its nice to see Engram get a chance to shine.

I'm almost having trouble writing this over the smell of the big fat rotten egg that the Hawks laid today.  Even the seachickens teams of old would have been embarrassed by this ass whoopin.

Well, really it was the offense that laid the egg and the defense was stuck eating it.  We've gotten used to not being able to run this year, but tack on top of that the inability to complete passes to open receivers and you have one big old stinker.  The defense actually played incredibly well for a long time, but they got tired.  You can't blame them.  Here is the stat of the game:

Time Of Possesion 
Seattle 19:15 to Steelers 40:45 

That is a testament to just how impotent the offense was.

You know you wins the golden egg this week?  NO ONE!!!! I can't bring myself to reward anybody for that train wreck I just watched.  Here's your darn egg Hawks:
 

Man that dude feels he has something to prove against his old team.  Makes me wonder what was said to him as an excuse for trading him away.  Whatever it is, I like the fire it lights under his butt.  He was a monster out there yesterday. 

4 tackles, 3 sacks, and 2 forced fumbles, not to mention the many plays that don't make it into a stat.  Wow!!

The other close contender was Trufant, but really everyone on the defense deserves a big thumbs up.

Hasselbeck gets his egg.  He made some kill throughs when needed, and overall was on the money.  That last TD pass to Burleson splitting the CB and Safety was a thing of beauty.

Again, like every week so far Burelson was on the short list of winners.  Hang in there buddy, you'll get yours the way your playing.  Another prospect was the whole special teams.  That game would have turned out way different without their play.

Great game guys.

I know the game left a sour taste, but there was a little bright spot.

His name was Deion Branch. He sure gave it his all to try and help us win. From making awesome catches, to fighting for yards after the catch, he was sure doing his part. The moment that most stands out to me is his effort to play defender against a ball that was batted into the air.

All this was after not having any bones tossed his way the week before. What a guy.

As mentioned the other day, there is a weekly award that we will be giving out to one deserving Hawk player each week. It is called the Golden Egg.

The first one goes to Lofa Tatupu. Congratulations.

It was not an easy choice this week. It almost went to Nate Burleson for being the one to put the spark into the game that the Hawks needed with that punt return. But at the end of the day we felt it was the defense that allowed the Hawks to win the game, and the ring leader of that was Lofa. His orchestration of the defense plus the two fumbles that he caused where the main reasons why he gets the very first Golden Egg.