Here are five things to know about the Falcons on Friday:
1. Practice schedule. The Falcons hold practice at 12:20 p.m. today.
2. Rookie watch. Take a quick look at how the rookie class is doing.
3. Game day. The Falcons are set to play the Pittsburgh Steelers at 4 p.m. Sunday at Heinz Field.
4. Poe's story is told. There is a story associated with Dontari Poe's upbringing that is more Hollywood schtick than fact. It goes that this big kid from a tough upbringing in an open sore of a neighborhood in Memphis was walking down the hallway one day, carrying his snare drum from the high school marching band, when the football coach spotted him and with flames in his eyes and said, "You're playing football!" And the rest was "Blindside" history.
5. Quinn, Tomlin reunion. On the schedule, it's only the second exhibition.
For Falcons coach Dan Quinn it is a major coaching reunion.
He’ll get to take his defending NFC championship football team and play one of his closest and favorite coaches in the NFL in Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin.
Quinn and Tomlin go back to his first coaching job at William and Mary, where Tomlin was a senior playing for the Tribe in 1994.
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