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Found January 14, 2012 on Blogging Dirty:
PLAYERS: Matt Ryan,  Steve Spagnuolo
TEAMS: Atlanta Falcons,  St. Louis Rams,  Auburn Tigers

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The beginning of this season saw the Atlanta Falcons being chosen by many football analysts to be one of the few front runners to represent the NFC in this years Super Bowl.  Many believed that the Falcons, with Matt Ryan and his bevy of weapons, and the offensive game planning of Mike Mularkey who was considered as one of the best coordinators in the league, would be able to score almost at will.  But as Falcons fans saw throughout  the season, this was just not the case. And now that the season ended in such deplorable fashion, many people were wondering what moves if any were going to be made. The two biggest moves that people began talking about were the Offensive and Defensive coordinator positions.  Almost immediately after the Falcons lost to the Giants in the first round of the playoffs, defensive coordinator Brian Van Gorder left the Falcons and took the same position for the Auburn Tigers.  As a Falcons fan, I was never impressed with the work Van Gorder did with our defen...
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