Re: Petrino to Arky? (Espn Confirmed)
As a Falcons fan, I'm disappointed.
As an Alabama fan, I'm disappointed.
As a normal person, I don't blame Petrino for abandoning ship. He would have been a complete fool to stay. Why stick around for a few extra bucks when you have little to no control to ameliorate a situation which will likely be mired in failure?
Sucks that Petrino is in the West now, but I doubt he'll compete much with us in recruiting, which is the big thing. One more tough game just got a little tougher for us though.
Re ATL, I wouldn't be surprised if Blank told him he could leave. The Falcons situation is outright disastrous and probably embarassing to the owner. It could get better, but it could also become almost as bad as the Dolphins' (nah).
Hopefully the Vick apologists will get some degree of a clue as to what the idiot Vick did to the Falcons organization, though that's pretty unlikely to happen. You can tell how much contempt Blank has for Vick, and I don't blame him. Could you imagine investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a pro team only to have the team go into the toilet because some stupid moron ran a dog-fighting ring? I'd be suing Vick up and down the east coast if I were Blank, fan-base be damned. Of course Vick is probably broke, but I would still do it to further humiliate him out of spite.