Whether the search takes a week or a month, the rumors and reporting around the quest for a new Atlanta Falcons head coach will be frequent and by turns intriguing and alarming. Trying to make sense of all of them is sure to be dizzying.
We’ll do our best here. This will be a daily roundup of all the reports and rumors fit to use digital ink on, beginning with the same day the Falcons fired Arthur Smith.
January 8
Bill Belichick continues to be a hot name linked to Atlanta’s coaching search. NFL insiders have been floating that in recent days even before Arthur Smith was officially out, and that’s continuing now that he’s gone.