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Falcons were worse off after 2007

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Well, not record wise of course, but personnel wise and peripheral wise they definitely were.

-Blank had made three horrible coaching decisions in a four year span

1. Firing Dan Reeves

2. Hiring Jim Mora Jr.

3. Hiring Bobby Petrino

Their drafting had been atrocious when they were actually spending their first rounders. Off the top of my head, they traded a first for Peerless, a first for Abraham (arguably not a bad move), and their 2007 seven first round DE is now a rotational DT.

Their face of the city QB had just done something. Can't remember what. something involving cats I think.

Their coach quit halfway through the season.

They were an old team all over the ball and looked well past their prime.

A whole host of assholes had played quarterback for them.

And there were a ton of other problems with them. I'm not going to bore you with the details.

I just bring this up because as bad as the Panthers look now, it wasn't as bad as it was in Atlanta in 2007. And now the Falcons are in the midst of their third straight winning season and will probably have a first round bye, before getting blown out by Green Bay or Philadelphia.

Oversimplified, but they turned it all around with one great draft, one great coaching hire, and one great free agent signing.

football isn't baseball. You can turn it around really quick. and the Panthers are better off than the Falcons were, or hell even the Bucs.

Also I'm getting banned off and on and it doesn't give me a reason for it. Is it like a glitch or am i on some ban randomizer

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