Mike Smith has spent a good part of his coaching career serving as a head coach. The last time he stood on the sidelines, he was the Falcons’ head coach, a position which he held from 2008 to 2014. After spending 2015 out of football, Smith had toyed with the experiment of becoming a head coach again. But if he was going to be a defensive coordinator again, there was only one team he would do it with.
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“This would be the one place that I would come,” Smith said during his introductory press conference.