Dimitroff just nailed it. Missed tackles, a lack of turnovers, missed sacks, missed blocks…this Falcons team too often missed out on its opportunities.

Read into that as you will, but some veterans will be gone.

That’s Arthur Blank. He’s ready to shake things up.

Clearly some players/coaches who didn’t perform at the level/intensity level the Falcons wanted.

Purely in voice, though. I’m not nearly as smart.

When you cross the line between performance and loyalty, you get stupidity.. veterans are DEF gone

But says won’t cross the line between loyalty and performance. They’re sticking around for 2012, at minimum, but that’s a shot across the bow to the entire organization.

But controlled anger is good, he says.

will be shaken up.

Taking a lot on his shoulders.

These guys looked pissed.

Reminds me of when the mob has to take out one of their own “made men”.

will be someone seasoned or whose been in the league for a while

Arthur Blank blinks eight times more often than Thomas Dimitroff

But they’ll use him differently. Music to my ears.

Probably merits a full post tomorrow, but what I got was a carefully controlled anger and a willingness to make changes.

You will see veterans cut. You will see new coordinators. You will see a football team that doesn’t make so many little mistakes, or you will see more guys getting cut and fired at the end next season. The warm and fuzzy period is over.

Abe, Lofton, Grimes, Walker, Peterson, Douglas, Decoud and Sanders would be my 8. Sam Baker is clearly the sacrificial cow they referred to. Displeasure with the O-line says McClure probably wont be back since he is the leader. Had a chance to lock up Snelling last season be did not so he’s gone. Sid can clearly do for this team what Biermann does probably even better. No need for Hayden now with Franks getting go minutes at the end of the season and playing fairly well. The rest of the free agent list falls under the who cares category

Did they mention anything about the possible promotion of Bartsimpsonkowski?

dictating to defense the tempo you want.

I would definitely put trading Roddy in the realm of possibilities. Alot of teams are in need of receiving help, and he could bring back nice picks to restore our draft. He’s 30 and will be turning 31 next year. It might just be time to pull that trigger.

I am proud of Blank for not being Mr. Nice Guy. He knows what he needs to do to have this franchise actually rise up and become a respected brand like a GB, PItt, or Dal.

went after Carl Nicks in free agency and plug that beast in at RG. I know LT is a greater need but the Saints are definitely gonna lose that animal to free agency.

Did they mention that?

Go out there and score a TouchDown M***$&F%$

he did not have the right weapons in Atl to run his “special plays” like he did in Pittsburgh.

that he had in Pittsburgh that does not exist in Atl is Slash…right??

Jaxville Owner: “Look Mike we will hire you but on one condition. You DO NOT call any plays….deal???”

feeling pretty good. I really enjoyed how Blanks makes it known that he is owns the team and TD and Smith answer to him. Blanks does not have to say it, you can just feel it. TD also seemed very stout in his position / philosophy in moving the team forward talent wise. Smitty accepted blame for the playoff / big game debacles (which is a good thing) and seams to understand that putting up good numbers is not OK going forward. I was getting really tiered of Smiths same old press conference quotes and I really needed him to accept the blame for poor / embarrassing performances in big games and he did that today.