The Atlanta Falcons haven’t made the playoffs since 2017 and final season posted their seventh consecutive shedding file. However forward of the 2025 marketing campaign, proprietor Arthur Clean issued a wide-sweeping vote of confidence in his franchise personnel, from the entrance workplace to the teaching workers and roster.
The primary 12 months of the Raheem Morris period introduced a slight step ahead because the Falcons flirted with the .500 mark and logged eight wins — their most since that final playoff berth. Morris has a 12 months of head teaching expertise underneath his belt after greater than a decade since his final full-time gig, Michael Penix Jr. confirmed flashes at quarterback down the stretch and a defensive-heavy class of draft picks may assist Atlanta reconstruct a unit that left lots to be desired final fall.
“We’re in a greater place now, workforce clever, teaching clever, completely throughout the board than we have been in a lot of years,” Blank said Saturday at training camp.
May a Yr 2 leap be in retailer for the Falcons as Morris hits his stride on the helm? Rather a lot hinges on the franchise’s younger core. Penix elevated the offense when he took over the beginning duties in Week 16 however remains to be largely unproven as a professional signal-caller. Working again Bijan Robinson may ease among the strain on Penix as a rising celebrity and probably the most productive ballcarriers and receiving backs within the NFL.
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The extra urgent points are on protection, the place the Falcons ranked twenty third in each factors and yards allowed final 12 months. Clean and his entrance workplace used their first 4 draft picks on defensive gamers, together with a pair of first-rounders in linebacker Jalon Walker and edge rusher James Pearce Jr. Safeties Xavier Watts and Billy Bowman Jr. convey heaps of upside, too, to the defensive backfield.
“I positively assume now we have the correct individuals,” Clean stated. “I believe they proceed to reveal that, I believe, throughout this offseason and the way they constructed throughout free company and significantly choices … within the draft. And I believe persevering with to mirror on the teaching workers, making some modifications on the teaching workers. And if the emperor has no garments, you have to say the emperor has no garments. And I believe our management workforce has achieved that, and I believe that’ll make us higher.”
This will not but be a do-or-die season for Morris as he stays early in his tenure. However the Falcons undoubtedly need to see enchancment after one more shedding season. Clean is outwardly assured within the workers and roster he constructed for 2025, however that tone may change if the engaging items fail to mesh and ship a long-awaited step ahead.
