If not for today’s report from Jason Butt, we might have never realized that Bob Sutton is no longer the game management coach for the Falcons. The veteran defensive coach was hired last year to take on an assistant role on that side of the ball and to aid Dan Quinn with the kinds of situations he is routinely criticized for, like when to call timeouts, when to go for it on fourth down, and so on.
I don’t think I gave Sutton’s role a ton of thought during a year where more frustrating, visible issues were playing out, but the team has quietly shifted him out of that role and toward an unspecified job that focuses purely on the defense.