Atlanta Falcons owner announces no changes for 2020
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank announced Friday morning that he was bringing back both general manager Thomas Dimitroff and head coach Dan Quinn.
This should not surprise a lot of Atlanta Falcons fans one bit. Given the 5-2 record and the two biggest upsets of the entire NFL season, Blank is relying heavily on his players to make this decision.
Regardless of how wrong the decision is.
All offseason Blank was very vocal about his expectations for the 2019 season and that jobs would be lost if this team did not meet his expectations. The speculation was a playoff appearance was the goal, if not at least getting to the NFC Championship game.
Bringing back Dan Quinn is the part most of us can at least understand, Thomas Dimitroff is another story.
During his 12 years in Atlanta, Dimitroff has had every opportunity to build and stabilize a franchise that had never had that. Instead, he has acquired two Hall of Fame players via the draft and surrounded them with sub-par defense and a mediocre offensive line.
For years he was deemed to be one of the best in the league at salary-cap maneuvering, but the Atlanta Falcons are staring at cap hell for 2020 with Austin Hooper going into free agency and will be among the highest-paid tight ends in the league moving forward.
Dimitroff’s drafts have been terrible for most of the last 12 years as his hit rate on players drafted in the first three rounds is atrocious at best.
Sure, he has added guys like Tony Gonzalez, Alex Mack, and Mohamed Sanu in free agency, but even then those three guys are the only ones that he has hit on.
As great as a businessman as Arthur Blank was building Home Depot into what it is today, he seemingly has forgotten all of that business acumen when it comes to the Falcons. Yet, when you look across Mercedes Benz Stadium at his Atlanta United club, he has done everything right and has the hardware to prove it.
Atlanta Falcons fans are already defaulting on their PSL’s at a gigantic rate, and this announcement Friday morning is only going to cause more fans to do default as well.
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2020 will be a make or break year for Thomas Dimitroff and Dan Quinn, though, we thought that coming into 2019 as well.