The Falcons had, to their credit, moved swiftly and decisively to convince us that things were going to get better soon. They cleared out all their coordinators, Dan Quinn installed himself as the defensive coordinator, and the team brought back past successful offensive coordinators at offensive coordinator and tight ends coach. Those moves weren’t all universally praised—in fact, none of them were—but they were the moves of a team that had a plan it was confident in.
There’s no reason to suddenly doubt the whole thing if you weren’t already doing so, but the departure of clock and game management coach Kyle Flood is at best an annoyance and at worst the kind of move that creates major headaches for Atlanta.