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Friday, December 21, 2007
Falcons’ morale worse than their record
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It will be very interesting to see how the Falcons play Sunday at Arizona.
Players and coaches are definitely distracted with everything that’s going on around them. They’ve eschewed the old cliché of only being able to control what they can control and have dipped into the daily habit of asking who their next coach or GM or what their futures will be.
There are a lot of professionals on this team but for nearly 12 months, they’ve been clobbered with one unexpected event after another. Now the assistant coaches, personnel staff and even president Rich McKay are in limbo, so to say morale is low is an understatement.
Interim coach Emmitt Thomas has done a wonderful job of not putting too much pressure on the players. He knows the temperature of the team and has realized if he pushes too hard now, things could implode even more.
The end of the season can’t come soon enough for so many of people involved with the franchise - and some of its fans.
