They Don’t Even Draft from Athens, So…

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Well, this is absurd.

On Monday, Chris Dimino, the co-host of the popular Atlanta radio show “Cellini & Dimino” on 680 The Fan, expressed his opinions on what the Falcons should do next. He believes the team should make a strong effort to hire the two-time national championship-winning head coach from South Georgia..

“I’d make Kirby Smart, if I’m the Falcons, say no to me three times. I really would.” Dimino said.

He added on social media afterward: “They’re (Falcons) not smart enough to ask. He IS smart enough to say no (3 times).”

This garnered a bit of traction on socials, and needless to say, no one really sees Kirby leaving his beloved alma mater and everything he built for the dumpster fire that is the Falcons organization.

Do they remember that his mentor is Nick Saban? How did Nick’s jump to the NFL go, and what would Kirby have learned?

Rise up, and get some sense, people.

32 thoughts on “They Don’t Even Draft from Athens, So…”

  1. I hate pro football. Everything about it. And I hate the Falcons organization most of all.

  2. If the Falcons went after Kirby, Arthur Blank couldn’t show his face in decent company anywhere in Atlanta no matter how many children’s hospitals he builds.

    I personally would never step in a Home Depot or a PGA Tour Superstore ever again or attend any event his sports organization is involved with.

    I think Blank knows what a PR $#!+storm that would be to try to hire Smart. He’s our guy … hands off.

  4. I would say the Falcons need to stick to tanking all time Suprabole leads, but they can’t even do that. They’re the Davis’s Mom of sports franchises and their rectal deposit fans can get bent ESPECIALLY if you pull for the Dawgs. I celebrate every time those anti-Bulldog racists flop. Art Blank can take his Urnge mega store to hell where it belongs. I love America, Sweet Baby Jesus, Shooting guns, Drainkin’ whiskey and banging chicks so I shop at Normaltown Hardware! #GoDawgs

  6. I have to believe that Arthur Blank has been told by people who have large financial sticks that Kirby is off limits.

  7. It may come as a surprise to a lot of folks in this area of the world, but in Philly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Green Bay etc…well, they’re pretty much just like SEC football fans.

    Observations regarding the history of the Falcons do NOT represent the entire breadth and scope of NFL-fandom or experience.

    Sundays in a lot of places are just as sacred as family and religion as Saturdays are in Tuscaloosa and Athens.

    And after all, if you want to see college football future, it’s happening on Sunday.

    All that said, the falcons have been a disaster since they hired Glanville as HC and I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

    I found the Bartkowski years to be quite enjoyable tho.

    • One of my friends is from NYC and he played lacrosse at UMass. He watches the UGA games with us but is more of a casual observer. He has told me the same about pro ball in the northeast as how Derek related it. While watching the Alabama Georgia game, he asked us what UGA had done to piss the officials and the ESPN announcers off.

    • It’s not a surprise, I just don’t understand it. NFL football is boring (IMO) and every team runs similar offenses and defenses (unlike college). I don’t understand why anyone prefers Pro football to College football no matter where they live. I also don’t like it when college changes their rules to match the NFL as (again IMO) every rule change over the past 20+ years in the NFL has made the games unwatchable and are the main reasons why I have no interest in watching NFL games.

      I don’t believe that football is something that can (or should) be made to fit into a TV scheduling window (i.e., 3 to 3 1/2 hours) and, if it doesn’t, the rules are changed to “speed up the game” and so forth. Every rule change seems to be to make TV execs happy without regard for the fans of the game. While the NFL is more popular than it’s ever been, the fans of the game are having to watch an inferior product (IMO).

      • My general sense is, especially as you get older, if you don’t care who wins, its all boring.

        The rules and style changes over the years, many of which I loathe, have had zero impact on my enjoyment of Georgia football.

        I propose that Jets vs Bengals isn’t boring for any reason other than you really don’t gaf. Nor do I.

        My supposition, speculative tho it may be, is that vast swaths of the country will see Charlotte vs. Georgia on the tv and go:

        “Fuck that! College football like sucks cuz like they play shitty teams sometimes and stuff. The nfl don’t. I don’t understand how anyone can watch Charlotte vs Georgia!”

        Fuck that guy.

        Opinions. Assholes. Annoyance. Not giving a fuck. An inability/unwillingness to stand in someone else’s shoes. The cycle of life goes on…

        By the way, several billion people will be giving lots of fucks about a soccer tournament the nation is hosting next year that most Americans could give a rat’s ass about. The fans of team brazil and Argentina and Italy and germany couldn’t care less about the litany of reasons for our indifference.

        Its not objectively shit simply because some people think its shit and understanding is not compulsory. So just stick with your shit and let others have their shit. Just be happy for them and hope they will let you be happy as well.

  8. NFL players don’t respond well to a “process” that succeeds on the college level. Pros respond better to X and O’s than jimmy’s and joe’s. Exception would be the Falcons. They don’t respond well to anything.

  9. They were actually talking about this the week before too, it is such a joke. If people thought the Smiths were horrible owners of the Falcons (and they were), Arthur is ten times worse (from a football perspective). Everything about the Falcons screams disfunction (and has for years), this is a total nothingburger…. Shockjock hot taek radio at its best!

  10. The Falcons have been a disaster since they became a franchise. They’re in the bottom five all-time in win percentage, have made the playoffs only 14 times in 60 seasons (and have a lousy post-season record in their limited appearances), and have never won a league championship. Their complete and utter ineptitude runs deep, across decades, changes in ownership and management, and personnel.

    For folks who pull for them because they’re the home team, well okay. I guess I understand that. What I don’t understand is how anyone can expect anything good from that organization. Which is ample reason for anyone competent – like Kirby – to stay the hell away from it.

    • The thing that alienated me, so far permanently, was the commitment to playing run and shoot football. First with Glanville and then June Jones. Mouse Davis and Mike Leach and all these basketball on grass gurus maybe able to take a team that’s winning 1 game to a .500 team, but you’re not winning championships.

      Football is a LOS game played by big guys who move people. While never a fan of the Steelers I am a big fan of how they run things. They understand that you need a physical defense, a physical run game and a leader at qb.

      In. That. Order.

      If the Falcons would build a franchise that had those values they might be worth watching again, but I won’t hold my breath.

      Not at all surprising that they lost a SB they had won if they had simply ran the ball three times and attempted a FG and instead tried to throw it with the game in hand and instead doing so, gave the game away. Shameful. A total embarrassment to the game.

  12. IIRC, Kirby went with Saban to the Dolphins. Left after 1 season, and Saban wasn’t far behind him.

    Anyway, the falcons won’t offer and Kirby won’t accept.

  13. The college football journalists all talk about how the NFL is an easier job for coaches than college even before NIL and unlimited transfers because you don’t recruit your players and there is an actual off season. I agree with that but the job security is nothing like what Kirby has in Athens. Even Belichick was fired after 3 subpar seasons the last of which has resulted in the Patriots receiving a franchise QB- though that process is erratic and a crapshoot.
    I can’t see a control freak like Kirby who has only minimal NFL experience giving up what he has (both the good will and ties to UGA) to go to the NFL. Saban had extensive experience in the NFL prior to returning to college before leaving LSU for the Dolphins. It was always his goal to be an NFL coach. I believe that Kirby’s goal was to be where he is, doing what he is doing now.
    I can’t see him having anywhere near the experience with how the modern NFL works to give up $13 million a year to go to the South Carolina Gamecocks of the NFC South, where the percentages say he could be fired within 3 years if he doesn’t have a Franchise QB (of which there are maybe 6 to 8 in the NFL at any given time), a great GM, a roster where the majority of the players are on team friendly contracts so that they can buy free agents who put the team over the top, and maybe most importantly if Pittsburgh and Green Bay are the best models of consistency in the NFL, ownership who know what the fuck they are doing.
    Crazy shit happens all the time but this would be very dumb of him and I think that Saban, Spurrier, and many others who have done this before (if he waits he can ask Jim Harbaugh about week 11 of next year) that he is better off staying at Georgia.

    • 100 … CKS has more job security than ANY single coach in D1 college football and the NFL except maybe Andy Reid. CKS probably has a bit more security than Reid because of the age difference.

      It doesn’t bother me that Dimino suggested the Falcons hire Smart. It is the type of move the Falcons should make as an organization. Until Penix was lost for the year, they had as much offensive talent is anyone in the league but the OC and playcalling has been terrible. They have a defensive minded HC and an improving defense but terrible special teams and an inconsistent offense.

      There is no way CKS is leaving Athens for Atlanta. The suggestion doesn’t hurt CKS, the team and or anyone else. Nothing to get our dander up.

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