Smith fired.

According to Adam Schefter, Dimitroff will stay. Expect another stellar draft...
 
Only one period in the subject line. Very strange. :lol:
 
I would've fired TD before Smith. But probably would have fired both anyway.
 
gtfan088 said:
According to Adam Schefter, Dimitroff will stay. Expect another stellar draft...
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Ugh, so much this. That guy is a buffoon. He couldn't win an office fantasy football league, much less pick decent players.
 
gtm1ke said:
I would've fired TD before Smith. But probably would have fired both anyway.
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They should've both been canned. No excuse for the lack of real talent outside of Ryan/Jones/Trufant. Both lines are atrocious.
 
GEETEELEE said:
http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/football/falcons-have-fired-head-coach-mike-smith/njcJ6/
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Before the game yesterday I was all for keeping Smith and getting rid of Dimitroff. After watching that debacle perhaps Smith is not that much of a coach if he couldn't get his team to play any better than they did...at home...with a playoff spot on the line. Granted he has no Offensive Line nor much of a running game (perhaps a function of no OL) nor much on Defense but good gawd that was worse than SUCK. If Dimitroff is responsible for personnell, much like Rich MaKay was prior to Dimitroff, then Dimitiroff should be shown the door also.
 
gtbuzz2011 said:
They should've both been canned. No excuse for the lack of real talent outside of Ryan/Jones/Trufant. Both lines are atrocious.
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The OL has been decimated by injuries for two straight years. Last year we took a risk and made cuts at OT for budget space, and injuries saw us starting Lamar Holmes at LT. This year, we lost 5 of 9 OLs to season-ending injuries. I'll give you the DL being awful, but we had Levine Toilolo playing RT at one point this year because we ran out of bodies. Our OL can't really be judged fairly right now.

I think we have a chance to make a smart draft choice and come back next year with a healthy team for a strong performance, so long as we don't have a third straight year of bad juju on the IR list.

Personally, I'd have canned Dimitroff and kept Smith for one more year. I realize he botched clock management, but remember the situation he was handed: Petrino left us halfway through a season, and Mike Vick had just been convicted on a federal crime. He proceeded to become our winningest coach ever.
 
I think Johnson tried to hire Smith ~10 years ago to run the D.

But I do know that Johnson has periodically consulted with nfl coaches regarding special team and etc.

Atlanta is a small sports town and PJ will probably have a good relationship with the new guy too.
 
Flywheel said:
I think we have a chance to make a smart draft choice and come back next year with a healthy team for a strong performance, so long as we don't have a third straight year of bad juju on the IR list.
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Hard Chance of that happening if Dimitroff is still our GM
 
As I stated after the Saints game, Smith was gone and Thomas is safe. Thomas has done an excellent job of scapegoating all of the team's problems onto Smith and McKay and Blank have had that confirmed to them from the Lions and Browns games in particular. I don't want him to stay, but he's going to. That's the reality we unfortunately must face.

Mike Smith is simply an ok coach. Excellent in preparation, mediocre in internal communication, and god awful at in game adjustments, time management, external communication (not a huge minus for an NFL guy), and creating a competitive practice environment.

We can do better.

Will we? Well...not if it's Rex Ryan, lol.

To be clear, I actually support a full house-cleaning, including McKay and Thomas.
 
gtfan088 said:
According to Adam Schefter, Dimitroff will stay. Expect another stellar draft...
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Smith should be out, he was done the second he showed he had no time out/clock management critical thinking ability in the Cleveland game. In both halves. Abysmal.
 
I dont necessarily disagree with this firing, but what is odd is that it was clear by the end of the season, that the two assistants you hired this past offseason on both lines (Cox and Tice) were starting to show that they were making a difference. Now you fire Smith, and risk losing the two bright spots on the coaching staff.
 
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