{"id":651107,"date":"2026-01-03T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/651107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:38:13","slug":"reports-falcons-more-likely-to-keep-raheem-morris-than-terry-fontenot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/651107\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Falcons more likely to keep Raheem Morris than Terry Fontenot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 The Falcons\u2019 recent surge\u2014they\u2019ve won three straight, and four of six after a five-game losing streak dropped them to 3\u20137\u2014has cast some doubt on the long-held assumption in league circles that owner Arthur Blank was preparing to clean house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In recent weeks, the consulting firm Sportology, which has helped Blank with his soccer teams, has been brought in to run a top-to-bottom health check on the team\u2019s football operation. My understanding is that it\u2019s actually better than some on the outside might think. And the prospect of Matt Ryan coming aboard in a Chris Spielman\u2013type role could be in play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">All that isn\u2019t to say everyone\u2019s safe. But the winning streak will likely help coach Raheem Morris, in his second year, more than GM Terry Fontenot, who\u2019s in his fifth year (Atlanta last made the playoffs in 2018). If there\u2019s a GM change, Bears assistant GM Ian Cunningham would be a name to watch, given the close relationship between Ryan and Chicago GM Ryan Poles, who was a lineman for the quarterback at Boston College 20 years ago. \u2014A.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 The Falcons\u2019 recent surge\u2014they\u2019ve won three straight, and four of six after a five-game losing streak dropped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,85127,2591,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-651107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-coaching-staff","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons-news","12":"tag-atlantafalcons","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115832154094109621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}