Mularkey focused on Falcons, not landing a new job
Falcons offensive coordiantor Mike Mularkey and quarterback Matt Ryan are ready to expand the use of the no-huddle attack and maybe throw in some gadget plays. (CURTIS COMPTON/AJC).
FLOWERY BRANCH – Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey made it clear that his focus is on the team’s playoff march and not on landing a head coaching job when talking with the media on Tuesday.
He was cordial in telling us that he wasn’t aware of an ESPN report about him being a candidate for the Denver Broncos’ top job.
Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey. did state that he wanted to be a head coach again. That was news because it was not clear if his experience in Buffalo had soured him on being the head guy again.
Mularkey said he’d worry about his head coaching aspirations later.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Mularkey said. “I’ve got so many other things to deal with. I literally take it day-by-day. That’s just the way this business is, especially with the travel that we’ve got coming and the games that we have coming. There is no room for it.”
Tuesday is game-planning day and Mularkey took a break to update us on the offense and deal with the head coaching report.
“That hasn’t even crossed my mind,” Mularkey said. “I didn’t hear that report. We still have to win this football game. I’m telling the players to focus on the now, don’t worry about anything else. Don’t worry about what anybody else is doing. There is no control over what anybody else is doing with regards to jobs or any of that.
“All I can do is help these guys win this game. That’s been my approach with them and that’s been my approach.”
Mularkey, 49, was the head coach of the Buffalo Bills in 2004 and 2005. He posted a 14-18 record. He went 9-7 in 2004, Buffalo’s last winning season. He went 5-11 in 2005.
Mularkey, who’s in his third season with the Falcons, and assistant head coach/quarterbacks Bill Musgrave have been credited with the development of third-year quarterback Matt Ryan and with helping head coach Mike Smith guide the Falcons to three straight winning seasons.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter
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True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
1:58 pm
FrtRow you started C&P —- Sooooo i’m guessing since we’re in middle school together when do we graduMatate?
Johnny Fever
December 15th, 2010
2:04 pm
@FrontRow
December 15th, 2010
12:38 pm
YOUR ON THE WRONG BLOG, HOSEHEAD! NO ONE GIVE A CRAP ABOUT CRAPS!
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
2:23 pm
Hey Fever “the Frtrow Blonde” jus wants to get the “Final Word” —- bless her itsy, bitsy little heart
FrtRow you are NOT smarter than a 5th grader sorry you loes, BiBi
Seattle Next
GO FALCONS
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
2:26 pm
ALL those folks that play “NO PASS LINE” are closest far LEFT WING “Voters”
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
2:28 pm
HEHEHEHE
FrontRow
December 15th, 2010
2:44 pm
Hey, it was “True Falcon Fan” that started blathering falsehoods about the game. Sorry, but when the wing nuts start making up reality about ANYTHING I have to call them out.
My digression should be excused by all of the years I bought season tickets so you could all watch the home games on TV.
JeanE
December 15th, 2010
2:50 pm
Way to get my hopes up, please Mike, don’t go away mad, just go AWAY!!!! This offense is being stifled by your predictibility and while is may have been smart while Ryan was a newbie, it’s close to losing us games at this point. Bye bye, pretty please!!
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:07 pm
BlahBlahBlah,,,Blah
You are still NOT smarter than 5th grader, YOU LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:13 pm
Hey gamer my seats are in the area of section 116 —— where might you be ??????????????
SeattleSlueth
December 15th, 2010
3:20 pm
These Falcons are the worse 11-2 team ever. GO SEAHAWKS!!
FrontRow
December 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
Who me? FrontRow “genius”
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
SeattleSlueth —- please will you promise to be here after the game and back up your statement??
Seattle Next
GO FALCONS
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
Go Saints!!!
SeattleSlueth
December 15th, 2010
3:22 pm
I think some of you guys are just full of Mularkey
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:24 pm
FrtRow—- like i said before you are BlahBlahBlah,,,,Blah
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:26 pm
10-3 and the defending NFC South Champs and about to become back to back in a few weeks, Go Saints!!
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:27 pm
YES
Marlurkey, Ryan, Turner, White, Gonzales, ALLL DA FALCONSSSS — YES 
we are full and you will our birds fly higher than yours
Seattle Next
GO FALCONS
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:29 pm
What Dat Who Dat Nation dat road now goes thru ATL —– Rise-up Tickticktick as my buddy B4 so well puts it
Seattle Next —- Then da Saints
GO FALCONS
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:30 pm
True Falcon Fan
Its only a matter of time before that monday night beatdown the dirty birds will get from Drew Brees and Reggie Bush
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December 15th, 2010
3:32 pm
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True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:34 pm
Who Dat —– I will be here Monday night after the game please promise you will be here to back-up ALLLL da BS, PLEASE?????
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:36 pm
True Falcon Fan
The only BS will be coming from those falcon fans after the beatdown
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:38 pm
Mularkey his opportunity, (God Bless Him) i am sure AB, TD & Smitty the coaching staff/team will support him in whatever he decides to do!
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:40 pm
Who Dat — I will be here win or lose — the question is will “YOU”?
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:42 pm
True Falcon Fan
I will be here, The question is will you be here
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
3:43 pm
Silly saints fans, they are funny.
FrontRow
December 15th, 2010
3:44 pm
Hey SeattleSleuth…..Sunday evening you will be up to your ears in Mularkey.
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:45 pm
So don’t blow all the BS hot air before unless “Win or LOSE” — if you are coward don’t show —- show up and be a man and take your medicine.
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:47 pm
True Falcon Fan
The Defending NFC South Champs will win in a couple of weeks so be here to eat your crow after the game
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:49 pm
FrtRow — up to your ears in “Murlarkey” — now that’s
Seattle Next then Da Saints —- ComOn —Who Dat “Where are you”?????????:):):)
GO FALCONS
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
3:51 pm
Seahawks 6-7, ha-ha.
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:51 pm
True Falcon Fan
GO SAINTS!!! Will be the chants in the Georgia Dome
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:52 pm
Win or Lose i’m here — i do not visit other team blogs —- so you jus make sure you to do same???
HEHEHHEHE
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:53 pm
Who dat please don’t drink to much of that “MoJo” and pull a NO SHOW ya hir
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:56 pm
6-7 could be a trap game if they let it happen
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
3:56 pm
True Falcon Fan
Matt Ryan has poved when the game is on the line, he chokes(i.e.Arizona)
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
3:59 pm
After the saints loss to the Ravens this weekend, the contest between them and the Falcons, will prove to be inconsequential to the Falcon’s winning of the NFCSouth.
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
3:59 pm
Who Dat — so what did Ryan do in New Orleans the last game, “I know he got got lucky” —- And your Point is WHAT????
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:02 pm
A saints fan talking about another team choking, now that is hilarious.
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
4:02 pm
Saw —- I know that’s why i hope the Saints win in Baltimore — That would really prove a very big statement for the Falcons a win — if the Saints could pull off a victory against RAYRAY’s bunch — but is not going to happen
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
4:04 pm
Falcons 11-2 record is a joke
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
4:06 pm
Who Dat — 10-3 ain’t — 10-4 is next and then ATL “Good Buddy”
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
4:10 pm
True Falcon Fan
When you guys lose sunday and then next monday, what will you say then?
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:12 pm
NFC South
1st Atlanta Falcons…..11-2
2nd New Orleans saints..10-3
Now that is funny Dat.
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:13 pm
If the saints weren’t so dang lucky, they would be behind Tampa Bay in the division.
Who Dat Nation
December 15th, 2010
4:15 pm
If the saints weren’t so dang lucky, they would be behind Tampa Bay in the division.
Coming from a falcons fan that is real funny
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:17 pm
The game between the Falcons will not mean anything as for as the Falcons winning the division.
But the Falcons will win it, and the last one against the Panthers.
True Falcon Fan
December 15th, 2010
4:18 pm
Well i say Seattle is NEXT then New Orleans follows
So we are 11-2 today —- hopefully if the “good lord is wellin” after next Sunday @Seattle we’ll be 12-2 —- the Saints are 10-3 today —- Saints got Baltimore NEXT “I truly HOPE the Saints win” make them at 11-3 —- but i really think the Saints will be 10-4 “Good Buddy” after RAYRAY’s bunch whips the Saints —- Rise-up ATL New Orleans Saints are coming to town 12/27th it’s always special!!!!!
Seattle Next
GO FALCONS
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:18 pm
Luck is the only reason that the saints made it to the last SB.
SawThat1nce
December 15th, 2010
4:19 pm
Luck, and the good will of the NFL officials.