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FLOWERY BRANCH Black Logan Paulsen Jersey , Ga. (AP) — Widespread changes came quickly following the Atlanta Falcons‘ first losing season since 2014.Changes were expected, and out are offensive coordinator Steve Sarkasian, defensive coordinator Marquand Manuel and special teams coordinator Keith Armstrong — all fired on Monday.Coach Dan Quinn announced the firings and said he will take over the defense.“All three of these men are excellent coaches that I have a lot of respect for,” Quinn said in a statement released by the team. “While these are difficult decisions, we know we have a group of players here we are excited about and in order for us to consistently play true to our identity in all three phases we thought we needed some changes.”Falcons owner Arthur Blank said recently he still has confidence in Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff. Still, changes were expected after a 7-9 finish.The change in the leadership of all three phases of the team came quickly, even after the Falcons closed the season with three straight wins, including Sunday’s 34-32 win at Tampa Bay .The strong finish wasn’t enough to save the jobs of the coordinators.Manuel came to Atlanta with Quinn from Seattle in 2015 as secondary coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2017.“Marquand is a talented coach and excellent teacher that I have coached with for a number of years,” Quinn said. “I believe he should have the opportunity to call plays for a defense, so we have decided to allow his contract to expire so he can explore those opportunities.”Armstrong had led the special teams since 2008, Mike Smith’s first year as coach. Sarkasian was in his second season.Quinn said Sarkasian “has shown he’s a good coach and play caller.” Quinn said he decided the offense needed new leadership.“After evaluating the entire season, I decided it was necessary that we had a new voice and direction for our offensive unit,” Quinn said. “I have a ton of respect for Sark, both personally and professionally, and I appreciate all he’s done during his time here.”Quinn and Dimitroff have scheduled a Thursday news conference as the team begins looking for new offensive and special teams coordinators.Only two years after their 2016 Super Bowl season, the Falcons were hurt by injuries and inconsistent play this season, Quinn’s fourth as head coach.“We didn’t make the standard this year,” left tackle Jake Matthews said Monday before the firings were announced. “… It isn’t good enough, not making the playoffs.”It won’t be easy for the Falcons to be gracious hosts at the Atlanta Super Bowl on Feb. 3. After winning at least one postseason game in two straight seasons, Atlanta had high expectations this year but couldn’t overcome losing nine players to injured reserve.Starting running back Devonta Freeman played in only two games. The IR list also included safeties Keanu Neal and Ricardo Allen and linebacker Deion Jones, who returned for the last five games .It was a season of inconsistency. The Falcons started 1-4 before winning three straight to return to .500. They then lost five consecutive games Logan Paulsen Jersey 2019 , scoring no more than 20 points during the devastating stretch. Already eliminated from the playoffs, the Falcons closed with three straight wins.“I think it leads to optimism for us moving forward,” Ryan said after Sunday’s game.Ryan passed for 4,924 yards with 35 touchdowns and seven interceptions — almost an exact match for his 2016 MVP season, when he threw for 4,944 yards, 38 touchdowns and seven interceptions.There will be no MVP talk this year, but Ryan showed his big 2016 season wasn’t a career outlier.Even in a year both starting guards and running back Devonta Freeman suffered season-ending injuries , the Falcons had a top-five passing attack. Julio Jones led the NFL in yards receiving , rookie Calvin Ridley had 10 touchdown catches and tight end Austin Hooper had 71 receptions.Monday’s firings support the belief this team underachieved, even with all the injuries.“We’ve got plenty of talent around here and we expect a lot from ourselves,” Matthews said.Quinn and Dimitroff face decisions on such pending unrestricted free agents as defensive tackle Grady Jarrett, running back Tevin Coleman, guards Andy Levitre and Ben Garland, and defensive ends Bruce Irvin and Derrick Shelby. Cornerback Brian Poole is a restricted free agent.After making 20 of 21 field goals in 13 games this season, kicker Matt Bryant, 43, told The Associated Press Monday he plans to return next season.“I’d never have envisioned it going this far,” Bryan said of his 17-year career. “It has, so just ride it as long as you can.” Last offseason, the assumption was the Yankees were holding back on spending in order to accomplish two goals: one Qadree Ollison Atlanta Falcons Jersey , to stay under the luxury tax for the first time in the history of said tax in order to reset the penalties, and two, to keep room on the payroll for adding a top-tier free agent like Bryce Harper or Manny Machado before the 2019 season. New York accomplished that first goal, as it looks like just the Red Sox and Nationals will end up paying the luxury tax in 2018. As for the second, well, the Yankees have been pretending they won’t make big free agency moves this winter, except, maybe they aren’t pretending after all. General manager Brian Cashman prefers the Yankees stay under the luxury tax threshold again, so as “to not line the pockets of opponents to use that (revenue) against us.”That is some incredible bullshit, to be frank. The luxury tax penalties aren’t that severe, not by a long shot: the Red Sox crossed not just the first, but also the second luxury tax threshold in 2018 by spending $238.4 million, meaning they have another round of taxing on top of them, which will result in a penalty of ... $11.3 million. That money will go into the central fund to be distributed to the small-market clubs (MLB is phasing out the 15 largest markets from collecting revenue-sharing funds), which means the Red Sox are mostly financing like, an extra September call-up for teams in 2019.The Yankees have paid out $341 million in luxury tax penalties in the previous 15 years in which they’ve exceeded the threshold, but even dividing that up over 15 years and splitting it among the rest of the teams doesn’t mean New York is, say, financing their rivals’ success. As a whole, sure, the Yankees are taking part in a process that helps smaller market teams make up for revenue disparities when you’re talking about all of the money going from one place to another through the central fund and revenue-sharing Color Rush Qadree Ollison Jersey , but the Yankees alone aren’t financing it all. Plus, with the way revenue-sharing works in the first place, 31 percent of a team’s net revenue goes into the central fund, anyway, so if the Yankees aren’t spending profits on Bryce Harper or Manny Machado, they’re just going to end up giving part of that money back to the league, anyway, and then the Royals can use it to help pay Alcides Escobar to be a terrible shortstop or whatever.The Yankees seem to be putting a lot of effort into making their fans not feel like Harper or Machado will be in pinstripes in 2019 and beyond, and while it could certainly still be a negotiating tactic and posturing to let Harper and Machado know that New York is perfectly happy to enter 2019 without them, it might also be Cashman and the Steinbrenners letting fans know that, just because they lost in the American League Division Series to their rivals doesn’t mean they’re going to go all The Boss on the rest of the league and start adding payroll on top of payroll. Not when there are some profits to be had by working on the margins and staying under the luxury tax threshold again.Obviously the Yankees should be in on players like Harper and Machado, but it’s also the bad teams that should be chasing the two best free agents out there. Let Grant Brisbee explain.The Nationals offered Bryce Harper a record-setting contract that he turned down. Whitney McIntosh sorted out what Washington’s motivations were.Here’s what the Farhan Zaidi hiring means for the Giants.The Mariners and Rays are set to make a trade, with Mike Zunino and Guillermo Heredia heading to the Rays in order to bring Mallex Smith back to Seattle.That’s not the only Rays’ trade news, as Blake Snell just might be untouchable this offseason.A significant part of the Red Sox success in 2018 can be attributed to the long-awaited breakout of shortstop Xander Bogaerts.Brian Cashman usually isn’t so open with his plans, but yet, there he is explaining his Sonny Gray ideas.It’s not expected that Michael Brantley will re-sign with Cleveland.Mike Fast, former Baseball Prospectus writer and key piece of the analytics side of the Astros’ front office, has now joined the Braves as a special assistant to the GM.