Season's end for Falcons can't come soon enough
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by Cougar2000
A team loses its star quarterback to dogfighting charges, its star defensive back gets into an argument with the head coach, who in turns betrays the team faster than Judas Isacriot and now is in some major trouble, losing yet again in overtime. Fictional? Another episode of "The Playmakers" on ESPN? No. These are the Atlanta Falcons, who up until Wednesday or Thursday thought they had Bill Parcells until the Miami Dolphins came calling.
To be honest, the season that was the Atlanta Falcons of 2007 can't end soon enough, especially after the overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals this afternoon. This was a team that could have at best finished second in the NFC South and probably gone to the playoffs, were it not for the distractions of Michael Vick going to jail and Bobby Petrino (whose name should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER be uttered anywhere in the Atlanta area under penalty of imprisonment!) as well as DeAngelo Hall's meltdown on the sidelines. When the game with the Seattle Seahawks next Sunday at the Georgia Dome ends, this team should look in earnest for a new head coach, even if it means bringing Leeman Bennett out of retirment, sending Mr. Hall packing to another team and finding a quarterback that can win. Joey Harrington, Byron Leftwich and others didn't get the job done.
Yogi Berra once said, "When you're down, the only other place you can go is up." It's time that this team, which has had a grand total of eight winning seasons of over .500 ball and is 2-8 against Seattle, to go up. The fans are getting antsy and all we can hope for is that they draft Colt Brennan.
