| theRepublic said: I don't really follow the Falcons that closely, but I feel like Mike Smith got a bad rap. He was too conservative as a coach, but so are most NFL head coaches. They had been pretty good in the fourth quarter with him as coach before, especially 2012. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/comeback.cgi?player=RyanMa00 From 2008 to 2012, Mike Smith had them at a 56 - 24 regular season record. That is damn good. Two losing seasons in a row plus that awful 1 - 4 playoff record made him an easy scapegoat.
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Yeah. While I'm not sure Smith could ever have gotten them over the top, I do think the hate was unwarranted. He took the Falcons further than they've gone in recent memory, and I'm not certain anyone but a savant could have squeezed more talent from that roster than he managed to do.
