NFL Power Rankings Week 2: Buffalo Bills take top slot, Kansas City stock drops Atlanta Falcons NFL Week 2 Power Rankings: How all 32 teams stack up, plus top newcomer performances ESPN NFL Power Rankings, Week 2: Bills, Packers climb; Lions fall from top five NFL.com NFL Power Rankings entering Week 2: Chiefs won’t walk through AFC West this season Yahoo Sports NFL Power …
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons signed kicker Parker Romo to the practice squad, the team announced Tuesday. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero first reported the signing earlier in the day. To make room for Romo, the Falcons released edge rusher Ronnie Perkins. The Romo addition shouldn’t come as a surprise after Falcons head coach Raheem Morris made it clear …
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Is Younghoe Koo’s time with the Falcons about up? Koo connected on a career-low 73.5 percent of his field goals last season in 14 games. In Sunday’s loss to the Bucs, Koo then had one of his attempts go off an upright before it went through the posts. Then he badly missed a game-tying, 44-yard attempt wide right at the …
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Key takeaway: Jeff Ulbrich’s defense came to play. The Falcons forced the Buccaneers into back-to-back three-and-outs to start the game. The last time the Falcons forced a three-and-out on the first two drives was in 2015 against the Philadelphia Eagles in a season opener Atlanta won. The Falcons’ biggest task this offseason was revamping the defense, and Sunday showed they …
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It’s here. We’ve spent long months daydreaming or dreading kickoff, and now it’s time to see what the 2025 Atlanta Falcons have to offer. It begins with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team’s biggest obstacle in the NFC South, making this a vital one right out of the game. It’s not that a loss will derail the season—Week 1 basically …
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — It’s time to see the 2025 Atlanta Falcons in action. On Sunday, the Falcons will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their Week 1 season opener. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Both NFC South teams enter with a clean slate and a full schedule ahead. Below are all the different ways …
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Every week during the regular season I’ll use this space to highlight teams facing various funnel defenses. What’s a Funnel Defense? A funnel defense, in case you’re wondering, is a defense that faces an unusually high rate of pass attempts or rushes. I’ll take a close look at how opponents are playing these defenses in neutral game script — when …
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons have placed edge rusher Bralen Trice on injured reserve, the organization announced Thursday. Head coach Raheem Morris said Trice aggravated the same knee that kept him off the field for the full 2024 season. Morris continued by saying the Falcons do not know the severity of the injury, but that it could mean …
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The Falcons had already released 12 players and placed offensive lineman Jake Hanson on injured reserve (without the designation to return), which brought their count to 77 players come Tuesday. That meant they had to process multiple transactions prior to the league’s deadline. They released nine, waived 13 and placed eight others in different injury-related categories. Released Jordan Fuller, safety …
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You can only learn so much from the first round of roster cuts, given that most of them are players that we’ve long expected to get the axe. The hope is that they find opportunities with other teams, even though they might not have been the best fit for the Atlanta Falcons. That said, I think with the surprise release …
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