Do Da Dirty Bird: Falcon in the Dawghouse

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Published: August 23, 2009

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... not take the brain of an ESPN talking head to evaluate the preseason stats so far of Falcons QB D.J. Shockley.

Against the Detroit Lions, he completed three of eight passing attempts for 31 yards. He followed it up Friday night with a five-of-12, 63-yard, two-interception performance.

It all adds up to 40-percent accuracy and a big, fat question mark for his status as we near the regular season.

Keep in mind this is not easy for me to admit, let alone pleasant for me to assert. Shock led my university (albeit before it was mine) to an SEC Championship and then seemingly fortuitously landed with my hometown NFL club a year later.

As the Dirty Bird faithful know, he's spent two of the past three seasons serving faithfully as the third-string signalcaller, and his 2007 campaign was completely lost to injury, so I guess a bit of rust is understandable. But D.J. is not looking like a man fit for NFL play at the moment.

Yes, he's playing with receivers ...

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