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1 week ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Kirby Lee-Imagn Images The last time the Atlanta Falcons had an honest-to-goodness summer kicker battle was 2019, when Giorgio Tavecchio had a very ugly knife fight with Blair Walsh for duties and ultimately both lost, with the team rushing to bring back Matt Bryant after unceremoniously cutting ties with the franchise great that February. Younghoe Koo would take over from a struggling Bryant midseason, and has held down the job ever since.
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1 week ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Brett Davis-Imagn Images The Atlanta Falcons have an exciting, pretty young offense to roll out, and they’re trying to get younger on defense as well. It will not surprise you to learn that with an exception or two, the defense and special teams active leaderboards for a host of statistics are nonetheless veterans, from big name free agent signings to homegrown stars to players who took a unique journey to Atlanta.
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1 week ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Dale Zanine-Imagn Images The Atlanta Falcons have struggled to get much of note out of their outside linebacker/EDGE group for far too long, which we’ve hashed, re-hashed, and re-re-hashed over the course of those years.
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1 week ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Just a few years ago, any article about where current Atlanta Falcons stood on the list of all-time statistical categories on offense would have been easy to put together. Matt Ryan and Julio Jones were #1 in basically everything passing and receiving, after all, and could be considered two of the greatest Falcons ever. We’re out of that era and into a new one.
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2 weeks ago | 
chatsports.com | Dave Choate
Back to the Philadelphia Eagles Newsfeed Who is Avery Williams and how does he fit with the Philadelphia Eagles? Let’s learn more about this free agent addition by getting an Atlanta Falcons perspective on him. Here’s what Dave Choate of The Falcoholic had to say about Williams through answers to my questions. 1 - Can you recap his time with the Falcons? Avery Williams had quite the career with Atlanta.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images Inside linebacker is not at the top of the list of needs for the Atlanta Falcons, but it is still a position with more question marks than the Riddler’s favorite pajamas. Outside of one established veteran about to hit 30 years of age, the group is young players who are new to the team and young players who either don’t profile as starters or have had their careers derailed by injury. It all adds up to a very unsettled picture.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Kirk Cousins has had a whirlwind time with the Atlanta Falcons, from the giddy highs of signing a big money deal to the lows of tampering penalties and unreal interceptions. Through it all, Cousins has tended to keep his displeasure about the team drafting Michael Penix, benching the veteran quarterback, and not cutting or trading him to a dull roar, which is to his credit. That has continued into mandatory minicamp.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Mandatory minicamp starts today. Every Atlanta Falcons player must be at minicamp without an excuse to be absent, otherwise they can be fined. That means the rubber meets the road for Kirk Cousins, who just lost the final team he would have been a slam dunk starter for when the Steelers signed Aaron Rodgers. Here’s what you should know about minicamp as it kicks off.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Dave Choate
Mandatory minicamp starts today. Every Atlanta Falcons player must be at minicamp without an excuse to be absent, otherwise they can be fined. That means the rubber meets the road for Kirk Cousins, who just lost the final team he would have been a slam dunk starter for when the Steelers signed Aaron Rodgers. Here’s what you should know about minicamp as it kicks off. It’s basically an extension of organized team activities (which the team has already done), but everyone is supposed to show up.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefalcoholic.com | Dave Choate
Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Kyle Pitts was supposed to be a generational tight end, but he has not climbed to those heights yet. After posting the third-highest receiving yardage total among tight ends in 2021 and falling just short of Mike Ditka’s all-time rookie record—a mark Brock Bowers shattered in 2024—Pitts suffered a major injury in 2022 and finished 11th and 13th in 2023 and 2024 at his position in terms of yards.
