Kyle Flood was just promoted to a senior assistant role last week, taking on the suddenly critical role of game clock management for a coaching staff accused of being lousy at both of those things. Now it appears the Falcons might need to find another coach to take on that role, because Flood may be heading to Alabama.
Flood, the former Rutgers head coach who left a wrecked program in his wake, had joined Steve Sarkisian’s staff as an assistant offensive line coach in 2017 and spent two years in Atlanta. The Falcons’ promotion of the man made perfect sense in the context of his long experience as a coach and past experience as a head coach, albeit at the college level.