Happy (almost) New Year! Here comes a new coaching staff.
The Falcons wasted little time making moves after their lackluster 7-9 season, and the moves themselves were doozies. Atlanta took the expected steps of cleaning out offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian and defensive coordinator Marquand Manuel and surprised most of us a little by also firing longtime special teams coordinator Keith Armstrong. It’s a clean sweep, and an opportunity for Atlanta to reinvent itself a bit after a moribund 2018.
We’ll be talking about this a lot in the coming weeks, but for the moment, I just wanted to take a step back and look at why each of these moves were made, and why Dan Quinn has installed himself as the defensive coordinator.