When a team fires its coach but keeps the general manager, that team is saying, “We believe we’re more talented than we’ve played.” When an owner says – as Arthur Blank did after hiring Dan Quinn – that his team isn’t in rebuilding mode and his intent is to “win now,” he’s saying, “We’ve got the players.”
Over the past six games, all of them losses, so little talent has been brought to bear that Blank’s Falcons haven’t won once. If he believes – and I know he does – that his team is in better hands with Quinn than Mike Smith, why is it 6-7?