Falcons have to fire Dan Quinn before their next game
By John Buhler
The Atlanta Falcons have now dropped six games in a row. They are the worst team in the NFC and need to fire head coach Dan Quinn before their next game.
New week, same bad result. The Atlanta Falcons are arguably the biggest laughingstock in the NFL. After winning on Sunday Night Football back in Week 2 over the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta has now dropped six games in a row. The Falcons are 1-7 on the year entering their annual bye with next to nothing positive to show from their terrible season thus far.
Falcons head coach Dan Quinn welcomed his former mentor Pete Carroll and his Seattle Seahawks into Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday afternoon to endure yet another defeat on the campaign. This team has quit on its head coach. The city of Atlanta has quit on its head coach. Now, it’s time for Falcons owner Arthur Blank to do the right thing and quit on his head coach, too.
With nine weeks left in the season and eight games left on the schedule to be continually embarrassed, the Falcons must move on from Quinn before their next ball game. Week 10 will be on the road against the archrival New Orleans Saints, who have their starting quarterback Drew Brees back after missing a month and a half with a thumb injury. Atlanta will certainly fall to 1-8.
The Falcons do have a few former head football coaches on its staff, so the Falcons can afford to move on from Quinn. It’s not like it can get any worse with Dirk Koetter, Raheem Morris or even Bob Sutton leading this awful football team. They’re on pace to go 2-14. The last time Atlanta won two games in a season, it was year three in franchise history back in 1968. Atlanta went 2-12.
The worst year ever is upon us. This is not an expansion team in the late 1960s playing in a multi-purpose baseball stadium. This is a team that went to the Super Bowl three years ago and won a road playoff game two years ago as the second Wild Card team. There has not been a sadder, more rapid decay of a contending NFL franchise like this. Atlanta deserves better than this crap.
We understand that Falcons owner Arthur Blank does everything in a first-class manner. He runs both of his professional football teams in the Falcons and reigning MLS Champion Atlanta United FC like he did with the Fortune 500 company he founded in The Home Depot. So Blank may be reluctant to fire a decent man in Quinn before the end of the season, no matter how bad it gets.
That being said, nobody in the NFL will blame Blank for biting the bullet and parting ways with Quinn before Halloween. Atlanta can get a jump-start on its head-coaching search that is inevitably coming. Blank can find out which players really want to be with the Falcons long-term and see which young players are willing to compete in a very, very lost season for Atlanta football.
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It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing, but the timing is certainly lining up here. Taking six straight loses into the bye week feels like the right time. Let’s bring Koetter down from the booth and onto the Falcons’ sidelines. It’ll look like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the last few years or the last few years of the Mike Smith era in Flowery Branch, staffs Koetter was a huge part of.