roguebeaver Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Former GM, Falcons sucked under him...he gets promoted, hires TD and MS..,gets a bigger contract extension than TD or Smitty.Just saying, is his fingers diddling in Smitty's pie? Sort of reminds me of the type teams we had when he was the GM.Arthur won't be dong any firing, Tricky **** McMckay will. To save his arse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon Fanatic Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 McKay as GM was a helluva lot better at getting talent than Dimitroff. He even orchestrated the Abraham trade and Abe was the best pass rusher we have had since Kerney. Yeah he flubbed the Anderson pick but overall his drafts were far and away better than TD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karst41 Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 McKay is the team Pres.My impression is that he just runs the business side of the team.Blank hired TD and Smitty, not McKay.I also remember that TD was hired via a Facetime session. with Arty.Bottom Line is that this City cut loose a good Soccer club and Two good Hockey teams,but somehow we cling to this snake bit NFL team.and we b stuck with this mess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 McKay is the team Pres.My impression is that he just runs the business side of the team.Blank hired TD and Smitty, not McKay.I also remember that TD was hired via a Facetime session. with Arty.Bottom Line is that this City cut loose a good Soccer club and Two good Hockey teams,but somehow we cling to this snake bit NFL team.and we b stuck with this mess!We had a soccer team? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karst41 Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 We had a soccer team?Atlanta Chiefs... Pretty F'n good team too.The league did not survive,, but it will this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerSteve Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 McKay is the team Pres.My impression is that he just runs the business side of the team.Blank hired TD and Smitty, not McKay.I also remember that TD was hired via a Facetime session. with Arty.Bottom Line is that this City cut loose a good Soccer club and Two good Hockey teams,but somehow we cling to this snake bit NFL team.and we b stuck with this mess!The first one who needs to be fired for blantant incompetence is Arthur Blank. His hiring of TD via a Facetime session shows the depth of his ignorance in evaluating potential GM qualifications is as profoundly disgusting as is his hanging around on the sideline with the team. Grow the eff up, get a clue and sit yourself back down in your fancy owner's box, bruh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Atlanta Chiefs... Pretty F'n good team too.The league did not survive,, but it will this time.I vaguely remember that now. I do remember the Flames, even though I never got into hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastiemike Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Atlanta Chiefs... Pretty F'n good team too.The league did not survive,, but it will this time.The Chiefs actually won the first professional championship of any kind for the city of Atlanta while here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slider Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay is the team Pres.My impression is that he just runs the business side of the team.Blank hired TD and Smitty, not McKay.I also remember that TD was hired via a Facetime session. with Arty.Bottom Line is that this City cut loose a good Soccer club and Two good Hockey teams,but somehow we cling to this snake bit NFL team.and we b stuck with this mess!Flames/Flyers was always a fight from the drop!I remember Boom Boom Geffrion trying to pronounce the team name...he'd say Calaaana Flaumes. Or something to that effect. Tom Lysiak was also worth the money to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise up Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 The first one who needs to be fired for blantant incompetence is Arthur Blank. His hiring of TD via a Facetime session shows the depth of his ignorance in evaluating potential GM qualifications is as profoundly disgusting as is his hanging around on the sideline with the team. Grow the eff up, get a clue and sit yourself back down in your fancy owner's box, bruh.we're having two terrible seasons, which was pretty much normal before Blank got here. I get its a tough time being a Falcon fan right now, but Arthur is doing great things for the City, come on old man, ill buy ya another beer haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDaveG Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yeah he flubbed the Anderson pick but overall his drafts were far and away better than TD's.2007 was really an anomaly. Petrino had his fingers all up in that draft, for good or ill. You could see the complete change in drafting philosophy in terms of what type of players we were after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nono Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) McKay is well spoken but a football idiot on the sideline--keep him in his cushy office on the rules committe Edited October 14, 2014 by Nono Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocoee_falcon Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 good Hockey teamUmmm bro...former Thrashers STH here...and, no, we never lost a good hockey team. We just lost a hockey team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningThePiszOuttaTheBall Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay drove his roster into the ground just as badly as Dimi has done. Dimi at least got some exciting skill players (that we can't take advantage of due to other holes).They both suck at drafting, plain and simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekeyboy1 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay drove his roster into the ground just as badly as Dimi has done. Dimi at least got some exciting skill players (that we can't take advantage of due to other holes).They both suck at drafting, plain and simple.McKay drafted 4 hof'ers in Tampa. How many GM's can say that. TD sure as heck cant.. **** he drafted Sapp and Brooks in the same rd...Just sayin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djbrough Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay's Atlanta team went to the Superbowl in 1998. There was a whole lot of talent on that roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEORGIAfan Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay is a better GM than TD. He just picked the wrong college coach to hang his career on, but now he is our president. I do find it funny that people always want to go back to place blame on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Wilson Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay's Atlanta team went to the Superbowl in 1998. There was a whole lot of talent on that roster.This McKay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E. T. Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay's Atlanta team went to the Superbowl in 1998. There was a whole lot of talent on that roster.Mckay came after Dan Reeves. Dan Reeves was coach/GM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoYouSeeWhatHappensLarry Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 McKay as GM was a helluva lot better at getting talent than Dimitroff. He even orchestrated the Abraham trade and Abe was the best pass rusher we have had since Kerney. Yeah he flubbed the Anderson pick but overall his drafts were far and away better than TD's.Jamaal AndersonCrisp HoustonJimmy WilliamsD-HallMike JenkinsPeerless Price for a 1stWhen McKay got the boot everyone cried about how poorly he botched the personnel of the team. Fast forward 7 years and now he's a draft mastermind and his roster carried TD to all of his success.Its the same story pretty much everywhere but Oakland. Old GM "didnt know how to draft!!" New coach takes existing players, uses them differently, gets better results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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