"I'm familiar with STATS, Inc.; we're one of their contracted teams," Emery said during a news conference in Chicago. "Spent quite a bit of time with their people, not only their programmers but went to their offices, watched how they grade tape, how they triple check all their facts. So I trust all their data, that's it's unbiased, that it doesn't have my hands in it, that it doesn't have our coach's or scout's hands in it, or anybody else in the league.Weatherspoon is a perfect example of a player who seems to be moving faster this year, playing to his full athleticism. "We've been very encouraged with how Mike has worked with the defense, Smitty and the other coaches to create a defense that is appropriate for the talent we have," Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff said. "He has taken fast, athletic players and created a defense that plays with confidence and an edge.".

That's the secondlowest total since the conference expanded