I remember when Leaman (sp?) Bennett faltered ever so slightly back in the Bartkowski days and was replaced to get the Falcons to the top of the league. The results were disastrous. Dimitroff and Smith were hailed as among the best front office/coaching tandems in the league two years ago. A hair away from the SuperBowl. Now there is a cry for change. Were we wrong then or are we wrong now?
As much as I like Matt Ryan, there is just not enough money available to have a strong supporting cast because of his salary. And a new coach and GM cannot fix that. These men know the talent and the constraints better than anyone else. And they will provide a solution before anyone else.
A saving grace is the division. A team doesn't have to be that good to make the playoffs from the NFC South. Hell, this team just might do it. And our Falcons have, a couple of times, played well enough to beat anyone in the league. Let's see if that team will show up the rest of the season and into the playoffs.
Know need keep around no longer they make to many bad moves
Bob Clark - 9 years ago
An old saying goes like this: You can NOT make chicken soup out of chicken feathers. In other words Dimitroff has left the cubbard BARE. Without argument, the SEC is the strongest and has been the strongest conference for several years and Atlanta's GM goes everywhere but the SEC to draft. The one exception is Julio Jones and the GM overpaid rediculously for him. The weakest part of the team appears to be the line. Both sides, offense and defense line play is substandard and I say this is directly the fault of the GM for such poor drafts. I have been an avid Falcon fan since the Falcons drafted Tommy Nobis.
I remember when Leaman (sp?) Bennett faltered ever so slightly back in the Bartkowski days and was replaced to get the Falcons to the top of the league. The results were disastrous. Dimitroff and Smith were hailed as among the best front office/coaching tandems in the league two years ago. A hair away from the SuperBowl. Now there is a cry for change. Were we wrong then or are we wrong now?
As much as I like Matt Ryan, there is just not enough money available to have a strong supporting cast because of his salary. And a new coach and GM cannot fix that. These men know the talent and the constraints better than anyone else. And they will provide a solution before anyone else.
A saving grace is the division. A team doesn't have to be that good to make the playoffs from the NFC South. Hell, this team just might do it. And our Falcons have, a couple of times, played well enough to beat anyone in the league. Let's see if that team will show up the rest of the season and into the playoffs.
Know need keep around no longer they make to many bad moves
An old saying goes like this: You can NOT make chicken soup out of chicken feathers. In other words Dimitroff has left the cubbard BARE. Without argument, the SEC is the strongest and has been the strongest conference for several years and Atlanta's GM goes everywhere but the SEC to draft. The one exception is Julio Jones and the GM overpaid rediculously for him. The weakest part of the team appears to be the line. Both sides, offense and defense line play is substandard and I say this is directly the fault of the GM for such poor drafts. I have been an avid Falcon fan since the Falcons drafted Tommy Nobis.