Atlanta Falcons
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15 hours agoBijan Robinson, Drake London among Falcons looking to make franchise history in 2026
The Falcons have players poised to break franchise records despite recent roster turnover and mediocre performance.
The NFL coaching carousel is in full force following decisions made by Baltimore and Miami to part ways with their respective head coaches. It creates more competition between teams in search of their new leader. It also brings more intrigue with John Harbaugh's remarkable resume and Mike McDaniel's strategic offensive mind. Harbaugh will command the attention of every team looking for a new coach,
But like everything else, it is a tradition often honored in the breach, and already the revolution against the ritual employment slaughter has begun in England, where both Enzo Maresca at Chelsea and Ruben Amorim at Manchester United have decided to force their own firings in the first five days of the new year to get that sweet, sweet severance pay from the people they flipped off in press conferences.
As I wrote back on January 6, Atlanta's contract adjustment for Kirk Cousins indicated that they were going to cut him, given that they would have a truly unpalatable cap hit next year if they did not. Now Adam Schefter is reporting that the Falcons are planning to do so before the start of the new league year, likely as a post-June 1 designation, a move that will give the team a bit more cap space now and save quite a bit next year.