The news about all three of Atlanta\u2019s big searches\u2014for head coach, for general manager, and for the new president of football\u2014is coming in fast and furious just two days after they fired Raheem Morris, canned Terry Fontenot, and shuffled Rich McKay out of his CEO gig. While Matt Ryan is considered the heavy favorite for the PRESIDENT OF FOOTBALL job (I\u2019m thinking of making it all caps full-time for emphasis), they are bringing in other candidates.<\/p>\n
We learned earlier today that 49ers director of scouting and operations Josh Williams was one such candidate, and now Mike Disner is the second. The chief operating officer for the Detroit Lions, Disner has been in the NFL in some capacity since 2005, when he was an intern and then a scout with the Patriots. He\u2019s served as the director of football administration for the Cardinals and vice president of football administration for the Lions, too.<\/p>\n
Like Williams, Disner seems like a longshot because Ryan\u2019s involved in the search, but he\u2019s also an interesting candidate. In his current role, the Lions say he \u201cassumes responsibilities across both the football and business management teams, overseeing the organization\u2019s football operations and football administration, as well as leading the Lions\u2019 strategy and revenue teams.\u201d That sounds like a role that bridges multiple functions, which fits with Arthur Blank\u2019s description of the role as overseeing football operations but also working with Greg Beadles on the business side in Atlanta. Disner does not have the same background in the on-field product that, say, Williams would have as a longtime scout or Ryan would have as a legendary player, but he\u2019s a worthwhile candidate.<\/p>\n
Even though I expect the Falcons to just hire Ryan, they\u2019re building a good candidate list for this role, which I do appreciate. Let\u2019s see how Disner fares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news about all three of Atlanta\u2019s big searches\u2014for head coach, for general manager, and for the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2591,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-659716","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-news","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115850930014907619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659716","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=659716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}