start<\/a>.<\/p>\nMorris, during his introductory news conference Monday, described Atlanta as his home and a place where he and his family felt comfortable. Blank also felt comfortable with Morris and said he learned a lot from his three years working under head coach Sean McVay with the Los Angeles Rams \u2013 including seeing how McVay and the general manager Les Snead interacted, something Morris brought up during his press conference. as the type of relationship he hoped to build with Fontenot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three years he spent in Los Angeles where he worked with a different coaching environment, a different type of setup that Sean McVay operates in differently than a lot of other coaches,\u201d Blank said. \u201cAnd their program and their coaching setup and the way they promote from within and just move coaches in a much more lateral way has been a learning experience for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blank highlighted Morris' energy, his leadership, the recommendations of McVay and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, and the team's own understanding of Morris during his six years in Atlanta. All of them helped the Falcons decide he was their choice.<\/p>\n
Blank said he was also happy with the staff Morris brought in and that he knew how to grow and potentially develop a staff from his time with the Rams – including having plans if a coach was promoted or hired elsewhere in reason for the hoped-for success of Atlanta. Morris brought with him several coaches from Los Angeles, including offensive coordinator Zac Robinson and defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake, both of whom are expected to call plays for the Falcons.<\/p>\n
One thing all the candidates agreed on, however, was the state of Atlanta's quarterback room \u2014 which boasted Desmond Ridder, Taylor Heinicke and Logan Woodside. During Morris' press conference, he said they would explore all avenues to help improve the quarterback situation.<\/p>\n
Blank echoed that through his conversations with potential coaches on Friday \u2014 a coaching process that Blank said was a group process without Fontenot or CEO Rich McKay to lead it. He said that “this is a group that really motivated all of this.”<\/p>\n
And what that group heard was that the quarterback needed help. Blank said there's no set plan yet, but it will be talked about “quite intensely over the next few weeks.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't think anyone we've talked to would define our quarterback situation as anything other than something that needs work,\u201d Blank said. “And I'm being nice. It's not a criticism of the players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said this in the press conference, sometimes what makes a quarterback really good or not so good is not just the way he plays, but the scheme he's in, the plays that are called, just a variety of things that it takes to make a good quarterback play.<\/p>\n
Blank said they knew they needed to improve at the position \u2014 both in 2024 and beyond \u2014 and no one disagreed on that, which will likely be Morris' most important goal and Fontenot in their first offseason together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Falcons’ Blank: Belichick never asked for player control\u060c Michael Rothstein, ESPN editorFebruary 9, 2024, 8:50 p.m. Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. The Atlanta Falcons hired Raheem Morris as head coach last month, but owner Arthur Blank wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1380,5424,10527,3241,4784,25],"class_list":["post-24917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-asked","tag-belichick","tag-blank","tag-control","tag-falcons","tag-player"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24919,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions\/24919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}