In preparation of Sunday’s game, I got together with Jamie Kelly, the editor at Blogging Dirty. My thanks to Jamie for taking the time to answer my questions to help inform this Lions audience on a Falcons perspective.

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Granted, this exercise presumes that no games will be lost due to the lockout (a less risky proposition now than when I began this series). That might be a big step of faith, especially in regards to the preseason games, but I have a hard time operating under any other assumption. I know what happens when one assumes, let’s hope the labor situation doesn’t prove the old saying true. These Q&As aren’t meant to be any sort of game preview, it is obviously way too early for that. The subject teams may end up looking much different when the Lions play them compared to how they look now, but I anticipate this being a good introduction to each teams’ hopes, fears, needs, expectations, etc.

The Lions have drawn some comparisons to the Atlanta Falcons because of some similarities in the way they are building their team. They will get a chance to use the Falcons as a measuring stick when they meet at Ford Field in week seven. I was able to send some questions about the Falcons to Dave Choate, the head honcho at The Falcoholic, and he was kind enough to provide responses. Here we go…

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In determining what picks I thought each team would make I first had to determine what each team’s needs were.  This is a daunting task that is complicated by what the primary need was, what the secondary needs were and further complicated by whether a General Manager would take the best player available and throw need out the window.

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