Here Come the Excuses? Are the Falcons Really Bringing Back Raheem Morris?

Here Come the Excuses? Are the Falcons Really Bringing Back Raheem Morris?

Raheem Morris is coming back. Yeah. And the sale is going to be, look, we got hurt. We won five games. You gave two away with two bad kickers. You’re on your third kicker. Your starting quarterback was injured for the second year in a row. He missed nearly half the season. It could be Drake London misses half of the season. And your defense got better. And once we got our feet up under us, we got better at the end of the year. That’s going to be the cell for the Falcons and for Raheem Morris to come back to coach next year. Not only that, the kicker, you also lost two games in overtime. So, they’re going to say, “We were a play away from winning four more games.” No doubt. This is a tweet I saw over the weekend, which I liked. I probably should not have, but Garrett uh tweeted this out. The 5-9 Atlanta Falcons could easily be 10 and four right now. Some game results from this year. three-point loss to the Bucks at home, onepoint loss to the Patriots, overtime to the Colts in Berlin, overtime to the Panthers at home, three-point loss to the Jets. What could have been? Yeah, but what isn’t um is who you are. I mean, you’re just you’re a mediocre football team. And my problem is I’m we’re going to hear the spin at the end of the year. And that’s I guarantee they found that tweet because Lord knows the Falcons listen and follow anything anybody says about them and they’re going to have that up on a spreadsheet. More than that too, the offense was the big problem, Finn. It still is. And well, you say, well, you just scored 29 and that’s the problem. You were scoring 10 zero 10. Uh, you weren’t finding ways in overtime to get a field goal when you needed to. So, the offense has been the problem. I think most people would say outside of the 30 to nothing affair, we still had a lot to do with your offense not doing anything. Um, the defense has certainly been the more consistent unit. There’s been special teams, kickoff returns, missed extra points against the Patriots, two kickers fired cuz they couldn’t make kicks. I’m telling you, that’s going to be the sill. We lost the QB. We didn’t have our number one wide receiver and they took that was out before the season starts, right? We got rid of our number two receiver because there was an argument with somebody about something else. No, no, no. Our number two receiver broke his collar bone and nobody told us that. They said it was just a dayby-day thing. Divine Diablo was gone in the bad defensive game. A lot of stuff happened. There’s no question about it. There’s a lot of adversity, a lot of variables, but that’s football. That’s the National Football League. How do you overcome? How do you coach yourselves into wins? And I guess that’s the one thing we haven’t done is gotten an advantage from our head coach on the football field or offensive coordinator in game in the in the field of play in these clutch moments that we’re talking about. Haven’t the 49ers dealt with a lot of injuries this year? Yeah. M. Jones has like Mac. Jones I think has more starts at this point than Brock Perie. Did didn’t their starting linebacker get hurt against us? Weren’t they playing like guys off the street? They’re 10 and four. I I don’t want to hear what we could have been or what we we are what we are. Medio. But John, if you win three out of uh these last four games, you have eight wins. I would ask I don’t care. And you’re still under 500. I’m just telling you to sell. I’m asking you if we start it over. We reverse engineer this thing. You start at the beginning of the season. I tell you, you’re going to lose your offensive lineman Finn. You’re going to lose Drake London for half the season. You’re going to lose Michael Penn Jr. for half the season. You’re going have to fire two kickers. You’re going to have a bad stretch without Devon Diablo. And you win eight games. Doesn’t matter. How many games do you think the Falcons should have won? Yeah, it doesn’t matter. I just want to know what you have won. It’s coming. I’m telling you what. You are in a division and I know point differential doesn’t mean everything, but it kind of does. You’re in a division where nobody has a positive point differential in the NFC South. Tampa, who leads the division, is at minus 27 for the year. The Panthers smoke and mirror in their way to min at minus 53. We’re minus 60 and the Saints are minus 106. That means you’re in the worst division in football and you’re only one game up on the New Orleans Saints with a game to play against them at the end of the

Michael Penix Jr. hurt. Kaleb McGary out all season. Darnell Mooney breaks his collarbone. Third kicker. Multiple close OT losses.

On The Locker Room, the guys break down the growing list of excuses surrounding the Falcons’ season and tackle the uncomfortable question Atlanta fans are asking: are the Falcons really prepared to do the unthinkable and bring Raheem Morris back next season?

What matters most — context or accountability? Is this a legitimate explanation for the record, or just noise being used to justify running it back? The Locker Room dives into what went wrong, what’s fair, and what the future should look like in Atlanta.

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