Fox: Falcons primed to rewrite historyAshley Fox, ESPN.com Franchise aims to forget its star-crossed past with a run to the Super Bowl |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Days after the Falcons lost director of player personnel David Caldwell to the Jaguars, they’ve promoted from within to replace him. The Falcons announced that Lionel Vital, formerly the associate director of player personnel, has been moved up a notch … |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch missed practice on Wednesday and Thursday with a foot injury, putting his availability for Sunday’s playoff game against the Falcons in doubt. There is now no doubt. Lynch practiced on a limited basis on Friday, and … |
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The Dallas Cowboys have hired former USC defensive coach Minte Kiffin as their new defensive coordinator. |
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Film of the NFC South chatJan 11
Before we get to the team-by-team highlights of Friday’s NFC South chat, let me answer one question I didn’t have the answer for during the chat. A reader asked when the Seattle Seahawks were leaving for Atlanta. I just checked with NFC West colleague… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The Panthers are already moving on finding a replacement for Rob Chudzinski, who was hired as the new Browns head coach today. According to Albert Breer of the NFL Network, the Panthers asked permission to interview Bengals assistant coach Hue Jackson f… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The Jets have more candidates for general manager than they have unnamed sources. According to Albert Breer of the NFL Network, Seahawks vice president of football administration John Idzik will interview today for the job. Idzik had worked for the Card… |
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Sunday divisional-round preview: Falcons’ receivers vs. Seahawks’ DBs not your ordinary match-upJan 11
Doug Farrar, yahoo.com Seattle Seahawks at Atlanta Falcons Sunday, January 13, 2013, 1:00 p.m. ET Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Ga. There are many interesting match-ups to track when the Seattle Seahawks take the Georgia Dome turf against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, but the key b… |
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Judy Battista, nytimes.com Judy Battista, the N.F.L. reporter for The Times, answers questions from readers. |
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Falcons' injury reportJan 11
The Atlanta Falcons just released their final injury report for Sunday’s game against Seattle, and it doesn’t contain any major surprises. Defensive end John Abraham (ankle) is listed as questionable, but he participated in practice on a limited basis… |
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With the divisional round of the playoffs at hand, the potential Super Bowl matchups are within sight. Don Banks evalauates all the possible pairings and ranks them all. |
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Five nuggets of knowledge about Sunday’s game between the Seahawks and Falcons: No. 1 doesn’t matter: The Falcons earned the NFC’s No. 1 seed, but recent history says being No. 1 doesn’t carry the clout it once did. From 1990 through 2006, No. 1 s… |
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Mark Wahlberg Shouts Out The Falcons While Possibly Being Haunted By A Demon In A Football JerseyJan 11
Tom Ley, deadspin.com D-Block is a video web series that is produced by the Atlanta Falcons linebacking corps and broadcast from the team's locker room. It's wonderful. Earlier this week, D-Block somehow managed to get a shout out from Mark Wahlberg while he was promoting hi… |
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So far, it looks like the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters are focusing solely on the on-field accomplishments of former Tampa Bay defensive tackle Warren Sapp. That’s the way it should be. When it comes to Hall of Fame inclusion, what a player did on t… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Late in the 2012 season, we created an unintended stir in Tampa by reporting that an unnamed Bucs player vented frustration after a 41-0 loss to the Saints by remarking, “Can we send these coaches back to college?“ Coincidentally or not, some of them … |
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With Rob Chudzinski leaving to become the head coach of the Cleveland Browns, a lot of Carolina fans have been clamoring for Norv Turner to become the new offensive coordinator. But that might not even be possible. There are reports out there that Turne… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Last week, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis parlayed his sudden pledge to retire into a rousing victory in what necessarily was his final home game. This week, Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez could help the Falcons get a little extra lift from a similar situ… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com When Ron Rivera was successfully re-interviewing for his job last weekend, one of the things he doubtless was selling was the promise of continuity after winning five of his last six, and the benefit for quarterback Cam Newton. Now that Panthers offensi… |
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There is only one man in the Atlanta locker room that knows what it feels like to win a postseason game in a Falcons’ uniform. That’s center Todd McClure, who can recall Jan. 15, 2005 like it was yesterday. “I’ve played in a lot of games and they … |
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