In his second go-around as a head coach, he has Atlanta in first place in the NFC South and his players and coaches believing in the direction of the franchise.
Sometimes, an early fourth-down gamble comes, and the announcers calling the game, or the fans in the stands, might jump all over the assumption that the coaches are trying to make some sort of statement. And Sunday, Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris was trying to do just that—it wasn’t the clichéd one most people would take from it.
“I know he’s only been calling it for a short amount of time, but he’s going to be aggressive. He always wants to be aggressive. I’ve got nothing but belief in our team and our guys.” Some NFL coaches get two shots at running their own show, with the second one coming shortly after the first. Others, and especially guys such as Morris who came up on the defensive side, only get one chance at being a head coach.
There were examples of that all over Raymond James Stadium on Sunday when Atlanta took a crucial game over to complete its dramatic sweep of the Buccaneers. At the same time, there was also excitement from everyone in red and black over where the victors seem to be going, and how much further they can take this team. At the center of it? A guy who’s learned, through his ups and downs, how to get a team to believe in itself.
“Jessie Bates is flat-out one of the best players in football,” he says. “For Jessie to go out and punch a ball out in the first drive, get the ball back for our offense, give us the short field, us score to get the game going the way you want to get it going, it is high-level ball by one of the best players in the National Football League. That is absolutely outstanding, and I love that.”
Maybe Robinson won’t be Marshall Faulk, and Pitts won’t be Antonio Gates, and London won’t ever be the true No. 1 he was drafted to be. That really isn’t the new staff’s concerns, but getting the most out of those guys is a priority. “Kirk’s one of the toughest people I know,” Morris says. “When you ask him to do something, he’s going to do it. Whatever’s required to win the football game, he’s going to do it.
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