2017-02-08

The Atlanta Falcons didn’t wait prolonged to fill a cavity combined when Kyle Shanahan supposed a conduct coaching pursuit with a San Francisco 49ers. On Tuesday, a Falcons announced that Steve Sarkisian will leave Alabama to join Atlanta’s staff as a new descent coordinator.

This was a warn sinecure for a few reasons. First, Sarkisian spent precisely one diversion as a descent coordinator of a Crimson Tide, and there weren’t clever indications he was formulation to leave Alabama after a National Championship detriment to Clemson in January.

Head manager Dan Quinn likes a proceed Sarkisian’s proceed fits a Falcons’ character of offense.

“As a play tourist we felt like, No. 1, what an assertive play tourist he’s been by a years,” Quinn said. “He has a genuine familiarity, from a far-reaching section scheme, a play action, a keepers — that’s such a large partial of what we do.”

That positively was a success for a Falcons in 2016. Matt Ryan was named joining MVP and Offensive Player of a Year, and a energetic descent attack, that ranked atop a joining in scoring, got a group to Super Bowl 51.

How does Sarkisian fit with a Falcons?

The history

Sarkisian has a story with Seattle Seahawks conduct manager Pete Carroll, and so does Quinn.

Carroll is a devoted manager to Quinn, who served as a Seahawks’ defensive line manager underneath Carroll in 2010. Quinn returned to Seattle after a army with a Florida Gators to be a Seahawks’ defensive coordinator during a Super Bowl runs in 2013 and 2014.

Sarkisian worked underneath Carroll when Carroll was a conduct manager during USC. Sarkisian has also worked with mythological college manager Nick Saban during Alabama, portion as an descent researcher for a 2016 season. He was promoted to descent coordinator for a National Championship after Lane Kiffin’s departure.

That knowledge with dual coaches Quinn admires helped change this decision.

“Two of a guys we honour many in a contention are Pete and Nick, and being a partial of both of their programs, we know what he stands for as a coach,” Quinn said.

The intrigue

During Sarkisian’s sole year coaching in a NFL, as a quarterbacks manager of a Oakland Raiders in 2004, he worked underneath conduct manager Norv Turner. The Raiders tended to chuck downfield more, though that was Turner’s descent philosophy. Sarkisian’s other stops as a play tourist advise his personal character is some-more unchanging with a offense Atlanta has been using so effectively.

That’s good news for a Falcons. They are not formulation to make indiscriminate changes to a scheme.

“One hundred percent, and that’s a character we’re going to underline relocating forward,” Quinn said. “We adore a proceed that we attack, and it took a lot of work to put that complement in place.”

Matt Ryan thrives in no-huddle, precipitate adult situations, and a hurry adult offense is a elemental partial of Sarkisian’s philosophy. Couple that with a play movement Sarkisian employs — another hallmark of a Falcons’ existent offense — and we can see because Sarkisian emerged as a fit for this role.

Sarkisian is also skilful with a two-back system. Atlanta’s energetic tailback tandem of Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman should make Sarkisian’s pursuit a bit easier on that front.

General manager Thomas Dimitroff pronounced Sarkisian is only a form of claimant a group was looking for.

“Steve’s a really smart, really artistic and really assertive football manager and play caller, and that plays into line with what we’re looking for here as an organization,” Dimitroff said.

The concerns

The resources of Sarkisian’s exclusion from USC are broadly known, though here’s a discerning rundown. Sarkisian primarily took a leave of deficiency to find diagnosis for ethanol addiction. USC afterwards dismissed Sarkisian “with cause” after he reportedly showed adult to a group assembly while underneath a change of alcohol. Sarkisian finished adult suing a module for not doing his obsession like a disability.

Quinn pronounced a Falcons have no concerns per Sarkisian’s health or a measures he is holding to conduct his addiction.

“Number one, we went by a process, and apparently to check and make certain all would align with a classification in terms of enlightenment and values,” Quinn said. “And honestly, he’s finished a illusory job, and there were 0 hesitations, 0 stipulations streamer into a proceed today.”

Dimitroff echoed a view and a confidence.

“Dan apparently has a really good attribute with him, and we’re really gentle with all a things we all asked in there with courtesy to any of a hurdles that he’s had in a past,” Dimitroff said.

Sources told SB Nation that Sarkisian is withdrawal Alabama amidst disagreements with Saban over “system philosophy, though a Falcons aren’t endangered about that in a slightest with a new descent coordinator.

There was a fear in Atlanta that a descent success a group gifted this deteriorate would leave along with Kyle Shanahan, though that’s not indispensably a case.

The Falcons are correct to move in a coordinator who can run a identical scheme. Ryan struggled in his initial deteriorate in Shanahan’s scheme, though he positively staid in for 2016. Starting from blemish and resetting all of that swell would be unnecessarily forward and would jeopardise a evident destiny of a group that’s inspired to revenge the misfortune Super Bowl detriment in history.

The sinecure lifted some eyebrows, though looking some-more closely during Sarkisian’s knowledge and descent philosophy, it creates sense.

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