Quote:I do not have a great feeling about Smith as our HC for some reason.

 

He's not the perfect head coach.  But I think he's a leader of men and doesn't have a history of blowing up a locker room like McDaniels has...  McDaniels blew up the entire bronco team because of his egomaniacal tendancies.  I'm not sure if you lean towards McDaniels, but I just wanted to point that out.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Smith was the head coach during the Falcon meltdown because of a dog fighting ring by the beloved QB.  I think that has to be worth something.  The dude knows how to manage a team.  And he did a great job of adjusting his philosophy to the talent he had.

 

Maybe I'm mis-remembering this...  So I'm not saying I completely know.  But that is my memory of the Mike Smith time during the early years at Atlanta.

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