After starting the season with five straight losses, the Atlanta Falcons have made a decision to fire their head coach Dan Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff.
In just three years, Quinn went from taking the Falcons to the Super Bowl to being known as the coach who lets his team constantly blow huge leads. That all started in Super Bowl LI when the Falcons were leading the New England Patriots 28-3 in the second half and ended up losing the game.
It seems that Quinn and the Falcons were never able to fully recover from that devastating loss. The Falcons have been starting slowly in all of their last three seasons, but a surge in the second half of the 2019 season helped Quinn to save his job temporarily.
However, the writing was on the wall after Quinn and the Falcons once against blew big leads in the second and third week of the 2020 season to the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears. And after starting 0-5, there was no salvaging Quinn’s job.
The Falcons have yet to announce who will be the interim head coach for the remainder of the season, which Atlanta already views as a lost one.
Gone with Quinn is Dimitroff as well, with Falcons President Rich McKay expected to oversee football operations until a new GM is hired.
