After looking at Mike Smith's assistant coaches for the Falcons, I feel much better about him. He hired Mike Mularkey and Dirk Koetter as his offensive coordinators and both have gone on to be current head coaches and have had success. Mularkey is in Tennessee and Koetter is Smith's current boss in Tampa. He also hired Bill Musgrave, Bob Bratkowski and Glenn Thomas as QB coaches. Musgrave has found success as the current OC in Oakland, Bratkowski has done a good job with very little talent, serving as the current WR's coach in Tennessee and Thomas is the QB coach at Temple where he has taken an undersized QB and improved his completion percentage and passer rating and helped contribute to a Top 25 rating for the team. 

 

With all this said, I now have much more confidence in Mike Smith to hire the right people to improve this offense if he is hired, which I believe he will be.  

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