BlazerSlayer

You never know how things will pan out. Taak could have multiple years of 15 plus sacks a season, Trufant could shutdown his side of the field, so many variables. Although I don't see why Mack would retire as a Brown. He was there 6 years and seemed happy to leave. All that losing and I would too.

Historically, the Falcons haven't been a good franchise. No consecutive winning seasons says a lot. But things improved under Blank, and really, when you look at it, the Falcons have been one of the most consistently good teams in the last ten years. It helps having a franchise QB of course, but I would like the team to push on and win a Super Bowl, ideally this year in our home stadium.

If it stayed like this, we are light at DT, LB and TE. Deep at CB though. Will be interesting to see if/what signings or trades are made as we move towards September.

We'll find out in September. He's not likely to come on here explaining what the playbook will be.

I am ok with losing a few of the midlevel guys like Reed and Shelby. Cant pay everyone. The only nagging thing is that Jake Matthews is due around $12m but has zero cap hit if released. From a financial point of view I could see something happening. I hope not though.

A bit worrying as to what this could be. Will there be a shock cut of a starter? http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/02/26/falcons-preparing-to-make-some-difficult-moves/

Makes more sense to keep him. Why trade a contributing player who's on a low contract? Falcons are a Super Bowl contender right now. If we lose him in a year, so be it.

It does seem like he comes out of the game more than he should, but the snap counts suggest he's within a normal range. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/atl/2017-snap-counts.htm

It took 10 mins of real time for the last 40 secs of the half. Ridiculous.

That should do it. Happy New Year if you're in England like me.

Thanks for posting. Just as Schweitzer seems to mess up every week, Sanu makes a lot of positive plays. He's almost underrated in how valuable he's been for Atlanta.

From looking at the helmet design online, it does seem impressive. It appears crazy that teams wouldn't have the best equipment provided for their players.

I seem to remember Arthur Blank saying he wanted it to be an outdoor stadium with the ability to cover up, not an indoor stadium with an open roof. The bit I dont get is if it takes longer than expected to open the roof, so what? Plenty of retractable roof stadiums take 30 mins or so to open. They just open them on the morning of the game. Still a cool stadium though.

Can someone send this to Jason Licht since he thinks a kicker is top 2?

Great job on the spreadsheet. Makes for interesting reading as so few of the roster are over 30.