Month June 2020

Atlanta Falcons: Offense faces a huge challenge in 2020

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The Atlanta Falcons offense faces a tough challenge in 2020 – only one football to share among all the talent on the roster.

Coming into the 2020 regular season, the Atlanta Falcons will have an offense that features 11 former first-round picks. If the team stays as is, this will be the first time in NFL history that an offense will feature that many former first-round choices.

Matt Ryan recently joined the “Green Light” podcast with former NFL defensive end Chris Long and he liked the 2020 version of the offense to 2012 that featured Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez, Julio Jones, Roddy White, and Michael Turner.

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Keanu Neal is ready to bounce back for the Atlanta Falcons

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By Jeff Benedict

To say the Atlanta Falconshave missed Keanu Neal over the last two years would be a drastic understatement.

Even typing out that sentence about the Atlanta Falcons and Keanu Neal is weird. It has been a little more than four years since the Falcons drafted the former Florida Gator with the 17th pick in the 2016 NFL draft.

Falcons fans lit up message boards, twitter and radio talk shows voicing their displeasure with general manager Thomas Dimitroff and head coach Dan Quinn.

But man was everyone wrong.

This dude can play – he is a damn baller in every sense of the word. His highlight tape from his first two years would rival any safety over the last four decades – big hit after big hit. It seems like weekly Neal was lighting someone up.

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The Atlanta Falcons confirmed this week that Todd Gurley had passed his physical after months of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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By Ethan Johnson

While this is obviously great news, Todd Gurley’s knee is still a huge question mark that everyone involved with the organization and medical staff have to continue to monitor.

Gurley passing his physical was an important first step and more than likely something that the Atlanta Falcons were not too concerned about, otherwise, they wouldn’t have signed him. Nonetheless, passing the physical was important to give the team some confidence that Gurley can still be a threat coming out of the backfield.

After all, his knee hasn’t completely hindered his football skills. If anything, Gurley can still be a great running back in the league, even if he never returns to his MVP form. He can still be a very useful and productive running back.

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