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The Atlanta Falcons hired Raheem Morris to be their head coach last month, but the franchise's owner, Arthur Blank, wanted to make a few things clear Friday about the team's search and one candidate in particular: Bill Belichick.
Blank, speaking for the first time since hiring Morris, said Belichick was never offered the Falcons job and that Belichick never asked for full control of player personnel or the goings-on in the team's Flowery Branch, Ga. headquarters.
Belichick, the six-time Super Bowl-winning former head coach of the New England Patriots, interviewed twice in person with the Falcons for the position - one of 14 candidates Atlanta spoke with before selecting Morris.