Why is Mike Mularkey Still Employed?

but I will personally go picket Flowery Branch if he’s still employed anywhere near draft day.

They’re going to let him interview his way out of town. There are a number of open positions and some very desperate teams. I see JAX as the obvious place given MJC and a rookie QB in need of training being there.

If he doesn’t land anything else though, I’m sure he’ll still be out. They probably want to evaluate who’s out there and how the would fit into the Falcons’ system.

Coaching is a fraternity. Keep up appearances. If Mularkey does not get one of those offers I think he will resign. Mike does not want him to leave in that manner. Same protocol with players, they don’t just bench you and throw you under the bus. They attribute it to injury whenever possible. Eric Coleman after game 1 did not start again, they claimed he was injured never started again. Chris Houston phantom injury Owens took his spot Houston traded. Sam Baker back injury poof to the bench for the season.

some incriminating pictures of Mike Smith or TD

MM stays and the fanbase goes nuts, MM goes and the fanbase goes nuts. The only difference is only one of those actions does not result in picket signs at Home Depot. I already quit shopping there.

I would have landed it tomorrow, but you guys did a good job of talking Mularkey and I don’t want to inundate.

Basically, yes, I think they’re not firing him to see if he can get a head coaching job. It saves Mularkey face and the Falcons don’t have to fire him, which I think they’d prefer not to do if they can help it.

Either way, though, I expect him to be gone. Give it two weeks.

FINAL.
WHODATHUNKIT?

Something will be done by then I’m pretty sure. Free agency is in 60 days. They are going to pull the trigger on MM asap once the coaching dominos start to fall. Everyone’s waiting on Fisher to pick his spot.

As I’ve said before, we already have our next offensive coordinator on staff. Bratkowski will be our next OC, he’s had the job since we hired him. So there’s no need to fire MM now. I will worry if he’s still on staff around draft day, as said above. Hopefully he gets hired away, and his time here can end gracefully. No one really wants to see a firing.

And the Falcons need to take their time when looking for an OC. What if they fire MM NOW, and then find that the OC’s available this year are terrible? Or that no one is willing to leave their job to be our OC? I bet it’ll take at least a few weeks/months for them to pull the trigger.

Also, on why our offense sucks against good teams;

I feel our offense has to have way too many things going for them to succeed. Our steps to offensive success:

-OLine MUST play well
-With OLine playing well pound the football up the middle
-Now that the D is wary of the run, play action pass

Stop one of those factors, and our entire offense collapses. Basically our offense depends on the run and the oline to play well for any chance at success. Now against bad teams this isn’t that bad of a formula, but as we have seen all year, against a good D or any D that can stuff the run we become the Failcons on offense.

Now take at look how the top offenses in the NFL do it:

-Pass all over them
-Now that they are wary of the pass, run on some plays. (Optional)

^ A much less complicated approach to offense with essentially one step. I believe we have enough weapons to go with the pass first, run second mentality. We already have Roddy and JJ, but Gonzo, Quizz, and HD ought to create matchup problems if used correctly. More importantly, I believe Matty Ice can become an elite passer if he works on a few things in the offseason.

Doesn’t that make it a Mike Woodson situation?

Wishful thinking but lets see if Tony Dungy will come out of the studio and take a less stressfull roll and turn Matt into what he should be….. give him whatever he wants.

If he is so good why did cincy release him? Ill take another QB coach in Tom Clements. Just look at the work he has done with not only Rodgers but Flynn as well. If anybody can help MR become elite it’s Clements.

He could also be in play.

…but he is what Mike Smith & TD both wanted, a balanced run-first OC.
Just looking at W&Ls the formula works well enough to get us to the post season…that’s it. As matter of fact, MM did call more pass plays this year. Unfortunately the few times he called a high percentage of pass plays…we lost! All I’m saying is it’s easy to throw coordinators under the bus, but Mike Smith & TD did not envision nor design a high powered aerial attack when they started this thing. For 4 years they have slowly been changing the culture and expectations of a franchise that has had gotten used to losing after 40 years.
Mission Accomplished!
MM (and BVG for that matter) has served us very well. Now its time for a few more tweaks on both sides of the ball, but I say it’s WAY too early to start breaking out the torches and pitch forks.

Think about it. Everyone recognizes Andy Reid as an outstanding offensive coach, but how many Super Bowls has he got? We don’t need a pass-happy offense, we need more effective pass plays (see Tebow vs. Pittsburgh).

I’d like to see what our offense under MM could accomplish if our defense could get more 3 and outs and turnovers.

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