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Falcons Plan on Reducing Michael Turner’s Role

Found January 12, 2012 on Pro Football Zone: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Michael Turner,  Jason Snelling
TEAMS: Atlanta Falcons

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The Atlanta Falcons held their end of season press conference on Wednesday and one thing in particular caught my attention. The Falcons announced that they plan on cutting down running back Michael Turner’s carries next season. This makes a lot of sense,  the Falcons should have been doing this for the past three seasons.  But,  instead they’ve virtually ran Turner into the ground. I would expect the Falcons to use a three-headed monster appraoch to their running game in 2012 with Turner, Jason Snelling and Jacquizz Rogers.
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