COFFEE RUN: 8 nuggets from Mike Smith
Falcons coach Mike Smith has been busy filling out his new staff.
Upon returning from Mobile, he shot this little video with the team’s website.
If you can’t watch the entire 9:08, here are some of the highlights:
1. The Falcons have nearly completed their new offensive playbook.
2. Defensive coordinator Mike Nolan with utilize a “multiplicity” of defenses. (Will sprinkle in some 3-4 principles.)
3. The coaches are set to do their specific position-by-position evaluations.
4. They have to concentrate on the top juniors who have applied for the draft between now and the combine.
5. They are getting ready for the combine testing. They will stress mental, physical and psychological testing. He’s looking forward to getting the medical grades from the doctors.
6. To get ready for Free Agency, which starts March 13, the coaching staff is set to get their assignments from the personnel staff of the players they will evaluate. Smith noted that every free agent will not be evaluated.
7. Now that the coaching staff has been revamped, it’s on to revamping the roster. The Falcons will look to returning players, new players via the draft, adding through free agent and possibly trading for players.
8. He brought one large coffee (for himself), chicken bisquits and several Egg McMuffin’s for the morning staff meeting.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
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113 comments Add your comment
Sid
January 31st, 2012
11:27 am
Give me the 1966 uniform with a black facemask.
Trade 4 Tim Teabow
January 31st, 2012
11:28 am
N E word in if they will trade for Teabow?
DJordan
January 31st, 2012
11:50 am
everyone; not so fast on T. DeCoud not being the starting FS next year; I for one am convinced that “Scheme” was the problem with the D and not the “personnel”……BVGs soft zone attitude cost us more times than not in recent years…..also, keep in mind that the Falcons were the ONLY NFL Team that DID NOT incorporate a defensive package with “6 DBs”…..just saying with all the pass happy offenses out there this should not have been the case
SavDawg
January 31st, 2012
11:57 am
Personally don’t like uni’s all one color (any color) prefer The red helments.
eastbound and down
January 31st, 2012
12:02 pm
eat more chiken
robert
January 31st, 2012
12:19 pm
need to draft a moble qb to put pressure on matty . We need some one to create plays or keep plays alive
panic fan
January 31st, 2012
12:20 pm
In watching the video the one thing that stood out was his statement about having coaches here with diffrent attitude and fresh set of eyes to over see the talent on this roster.Feel that after 4 yrs of same players scheme and coaches things got to comfortable in the branch,this is a much needed fresh chamge at the right time good positive feel from smitty in the video
retired ..... old and in the way
January 31st, 2012
12:23 pm
PreyDawg was it the rise of the southern biscuit 2006 filmed in atlanta
dean
January 31st, 2012
12:23 pm
CONCUR!
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SimpleDawg
January 31st, 2012
10:04 am
NO ALL BLACK UNIFORMS……..enough, please.
Go back to the RED Helmets and Silver Pants, with alternating Red and Black jerseys.
Drop the “black is beautiful” crap.
Hardy Falcon
January 31st, 2012
12:48 pm
no all black,we wouldn’t want the AINTS to thinke we were copying them. I agree with Dan bring back those silver pants.
Bro
January 31st, 2012
12:51 pm
Sounds like no real plan in place. Just a lot of bull. Nothing will work if they do not improve the pass rush and get more speed in the backfield. Turner is very good, but you have got to have a speed option and you can not start every game with Turner up the middle. Also, every fourth down option does not have to be a run play. A little diversification will go a long way in improving success.
Section 121 (real fan im at the dome)
January 31st, 2012
1:14 pm
looks like Coach Smith Gas light was on during the video, I hope he didnt run out of gas and I hope we dont run out of gas next year RISE UP BIRDS we need a title!
Joe
January 31st, 2012
1:39 pm
Mr. Blank, all black uni’s for home games!!!!! We need attitude!!!
RUDEDAWG
January 31st, 2012
2:22 pm
Dont matter what uniforms we go with if we dont make real progress people, lets be real were not as goid ad we think, a major change is due! And oh yeah,please dont bring back all these dead weight players,hence Grimes,DeCoud,Baker,Nicholas,Weems,rest of the O-line,majority of the D-line, wake up people we are not even close!
RUDEDAWG
January 31st, 2012
2:24 pm
Sorry for the mis-spells,touch screen phone,big fingers.
Pete
January 31st, 2012
2:32 pm
Yada, Yada, Yada.
0-3 in the Playoffs.
Nuf sed.
RedandBlack Peachy
January 31st, 2012
2:51 pm
Having already created the playbook sounds to me like they know who they definitely will keep and what type of skill set they are looking for in the draft and, more importantly, free agency. The player evaluation will be about whether some of the on the fence players should be kept or let go. The amount of free agency and our cash availability puts us in good position to make some moves in free agency. TD, and the draft picks for Julio, may come out looking crazy like a fox.
Opie Taylor
January 31st, 2012
3:27 pm
DLED, Smith & Dimitroff, BUZZWORDS KINGS!!! PROCESS, FOOTBALL INTELLIGENCE, EXPLOSIVENESS, CHALLENGED SOULS, ALL BS, 0-3 PLAYOFFS.
It does not take a genius to figure out Mike Smith’s latest statement. Not all free agents will be evaluated!! Only the Mediocre Ones! Falcons New Slogan, We’ll Pass on TALENT!!
SirReal
January 31st, 2012
3:30 pm
SimpleDawg,
Your name precedes you and lets everyone know just how much of a jackass you really are. Folks like you can go sit on a tack.
Whopper Dawg
January 31st, 2012
4:59 pm
Doc Dawg,
That is a helluva good point. I though the new OC said you have to fashion the offense based on the players you have, but he can go ahead and finalize the playbook before doing player evaluation??
No wonder we keep having problems.
And any football coach that uses the word “multiplicity” should be flogged.
AlanFalcon
January 31st, 2012
5:11 pm
To hell with the all black uni’s, let’s goback to the original’s , they are by fart the best, red helmets, black jersey’s and white pants- That was the age of the grits blitz, one of the best.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vesaversa
January 31st, 2012
5:12 pm
Smith have one more shot and if the Falcons doesn’t win a play off spot and at least one game he will be fired .But i have to say if left up to me i would have fired him Immediately after the play of lost to the Giants .
Ward
January 31st, 2012
5:23 pm
Egg Mc Muffins, NOT ‘McMuffin’s’. Plural, not possessive.
Honestly, you *write* for a living?
Joshua Malavenda
January 31st, 2012
5:29 pm
good idea to black out the uniforms.
I think the 3/4 princlples the falcons will use are:
using a big 3/4 nt to take double teams so they can get more pressure from the des or lbs.
Standing up the des as lbs and use them as situational blitzers:
I think they will sign Paul Solili from Miami as the nt to take all the double teams and he worked with nolan last year. He was a big part of his defense.
I think they will resign Kroy bierman as one of the situational rush blitzing lbs because he played lb in college
I think they will also sign Kendal langford from miami since he worked with nolan last year and he is very versatle.
I think they will either trade or release peria jerry
They still have a dilemia at rb and it will be intresting to see what they do in that area.
I think they should release snelling
I think they should sign Mike tolbert as snelling replacement from the chargers because he is very versatile. He came into the leauge as a fb but because of lack of depth they turned him into a rb. He has pretty good recieving skills and is from Douglasville Ga. He will be a good third down back.
I think they should release mughelli
I think they should sign Marcel Reece in Free agency to replace mughelli. He is very versatle. He played wr in college and then eventually was turned into a Fb in the nfl. He also was coached by Tom Cable who is probably one of the most underated ol coaches in the nfl so he has great blocking techinque and also excells in the others areas of the game also.
Dirk was talking about installing a screen pass into the falcons offensive playbook and what a better way to do it that with ex wide Reciever as a Fb and two rbs with pretty good recieving skills on your team.
I think they going to keep blaylock and clabo and then trade or release the rest and just start over with the oline and let Hulk hill pick and evualate his own players for the oline
Falcon Realist
January 31st, 2012
5:38 pm
Blah-blah-blah! Off season hype as usual. Falcons need an attitude adjustment. Blowing more smoke…
thouhtful
January 31st, 2012
5:47 pm
Black helments PLEASE !!! Change the attitude and quit trying to make the Falcons the DAWGS!
ATLtodolavida
January 31st, 2012
6:32 pm
Hey Mike, McDonalds is not good for your heart. Eat some oatmeal, no butterm with OJ.
Hugh Jass
January 31st, 2012
6:34 pm
What’s a bisquit?
dan
January 31st, 2012
6:36 pm
Disgusted…is one adjective I would use to explain how I feel about this team. Hoodwinked would be another. I’ll give Blank and Co. credit…they actually had me believing that they were on the right track. But that playoff loss was where I got off the train. What an embarrassing and pathetic display, to not only get blown out once but TWICE IN TWO YEARS! It’s a slap in the face to any NFL player who’s ever strapped it up, played through the pain, and laid it on the line in a big game. If you need someone to tell you to ” It’s a big game…time to play well”, then you lack something that a coaching staff can’t give you. To hell with this team, I hope they go 2-14 next year! Losers.
extremus
January 31st, 2012
6:44 pm
Let’s hope the “multiplicity of defenses” doesn’t work out like 2011’s “more explosive offense” did, for Smith’s and the Falcons’ sakes.
Charleston Jacket
January 31st, 2012
7:12 pm
Dump the current falcon logo and go back to the original one. Cool with black or the original uni’s. I have never been a fan of the new (current) uni’s or logo.
hbcuclassics
January 31st, 2012
7:36 pm
http://www.hbcuclassics.com/hbcu_showcase
Derrick Hector, 6′5, 200, WR, Morehouse
Charles
January 31st, 2012
8:14 pm
Did you mean biscuits, instead of bisquits. Just saying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sheezy
January 31st, 2012
8:19 pm
Marcus, all MRS. Winners have went out of business in this city.
Ichabod
January 31st, 2012
9:16 pm
Arthur has been taking in the blog and says that while his heart is for HD Orange, his next favorite combo is Red helmet , Silver pants, and very Black jerseys. He just said this as he polished off his third McDonald’s coffee.
JONESBORO SLIM
January 31st, 2012
11:40 pm
Yeaaa ALL black uniforns…besides who in the heck ever saw a red white & silver “Falcon” bird….
JONESBORO SLIM
January 31st, 2012
11:46 pm
Who ever heard of a pro team pattering themselves after a college team (red & black) pleazzzz
Easy on the grease coach
February 1st, 2012
5:02 am
no more chest pains this year–I’m already stressed out thinking about the new rooster with freagency and limited draft picks
fla dawg
February 1st, 2012
7:27 am
for my useless contribution as a post, let me confirm that the Mrs Winners that was close to the complex is CLOSED. I miss it!
The Reader
February 1st, 2012
9:05 am
I see disaster again. Instead of focusing on the real issues, we talk new uniforms.C–p! Do they not remember this (last) season’s situation at UGA? No need to repeat that. Howabout “QB coaching”? 4 years have gone. No positive results. No accountability. Also I really did not like MS smiling after losing terribly @ Giants. What was there to smile about? AB needs to push harder for better results, accountability, and responsibility. Otherwise, there will be no news, but the same excuses. Over, and over.
WHAT?
February 1st, 2012
9:52 am
@ The Reader. The improvement in 4 years??? Where have you been dude. The last 4 years of this franchise have been the best ever. Ryan is the best QB we ever had and that goes to Mike Smith too. Really? This has been the best years and u say no improvements? some fan u are .
St Simons - we're on Island time
February 1st, 2012
10:02 am
heck, they can’t play ONE defense well, this has epic fail written on it
St Simons - we're on Island time
February 1st, 2012
10:11 am
my grandmother’s knitting circle is still wide open, still running
JONESBORO SLIM
February 1st, 2012
10:13 am
Enough about the uniforms..now lets talk FOOTBALL…i think Mike Smith may be setting himself up for Nolan to take his job….for if the team doesn’t PERFORM well he’s out and Nolan in….can I get an Amen
Say what
February 1st, 2012
11:23 am
no, no, and heck no to all black unis. But I agree this would be a great time to change our uniforms. My vote is for the original red helmets with the orginal falcon logo, as well as the clean, classic look of the original unis (i.e. what we see on throwback days). When it comes to football uniforms, simple is better imho. Think Green Bay or Chicago. They now better than to mess with “modernizing.” If we can’t go back, can we go forward with a clean, simple look with a red helmet, stripe down the middle and a close approximation of the original logo? Thanks.
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chris
February 1st, 2012
2:54 pm
That’s my team and proud of em win lose or draw…after suffering through the last 30 years of Falcons football the past 4 seasons have been awesome even though we’ve had some hard luck in the playoffs…time to look forward to 2012 and I like the coaches we have in place, The purge that took place needed to take place and some new voices and new players may be what the doctor ordered. I do think we need a clay matthews type player, lots of grit, attitude and some swagger that when they walk on that field, opposing offenses know they’re about to be hit and hit hard….Go Birds in 2012.
Obvious
February 1st, 2012
3:04 pm
Who cares, Smitty better hope for his sake all these Baltimore & Jacksonville connections does not cost him his job, no matter what schemes these new coaches run they better win a playoff game.
JONESBORO SLIM
February 1st, 2012
3:08 pm
Former owner Rankin Smith was a huge UGA football fan… and insisted thats the Falcons wear the UGA colors…. now lets talk football pleaszzzz
corvette11
February 1st, 2012
7:37 pm
Red Helmets with Flying Falcon on side