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Falcons Unable To Even Get A Pittance For Joe Horn

Rich McKay's final injustice before the fans of Atlanta was cut by the team Tuesday. With Joe Horn hampered by injuries and the Falcons unable to get anything for him, they finally bit the financial bullet and just released the (understandably) disgruntled wide receiver.

I was cautiously optimistic about Horn's ability to catch a few passes and be the leader last season that our team needed, but he was quickly turned irrelevant by Roddy White's stunning emergence. Left with nowhere to play this season, still believing he could play and with three years and multi-millions left on his contract, Horn wanted to get the hell out of Atlanta. And I don't blame him.

It's not right that he was so public with his displeasure, but in retrospect it was incredibly boneheaded to give a four year deal to an aging receiver when you're not definitely a playoff team. While I appreciate his tutelage, Horn did literally nothing on the field last year and was a lock to do even less this year. You don't build a great team off of aging players.

So I wish Joe the best, curse our franchise's ineptitude, and hope that we find a better use for that money in the years ahead.

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Horn's career is done....

I see another team picking him up hoping for something that won’t happen. Unless he agrees to join a team to just be a veteran presence he won’t be going anywhere.

by Kevin71 on Aug 19, 2008 11:17 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Good riddance

Now if we could just do the same with McKay the team might actually start moving in the right direction with no lingering effects. Horn is worth nothing and is at best, a washed up has-been. There are simply too many good young kids coming out of college to keep someone his age around with that lack of production and you are right, we had no business giving up four years for that crap, so I wouldn’t expect anyone else to do the same.

Retire Horn, before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.

by Jesse28 on Aug 20, 2008 7:34 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Joe Horn=Bigmouth Loser

I for one do not wish Joe Horn the best. It would be fitting if he gets picked up by another team and has a career ending hamstring injury shortly thereafter. I don’t know which is worse, the fact that we picked him up in the first place, or that McKay gave the malcontent guaranteed money. It’s a tough call, but I’m leaning toward the latter…

by atlpaddy on Aug 20, 2008 12:35 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Falcons will eat the entire $2.5M...

…even if Horn signs with another team, according to PFT.com:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/08/23/no-offset-language-in-horns-contract-with-falcons/

"There's no such word as 'quit' in swamp buggy racing, Marigold"

by tom slick on Aug 23, 2008 3:58 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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