🚨Falcons fire coach Dan Quinn and GM Thomas Dimitroff - Emergency Podcast (Football 10/12)
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Dan Quinn's time has run out in Atlanta. After 5-plus seasons, the worst blown lead in Super Bowl history (and other notables collapses) along the way, the Falcons have parted ways with their head coach. The organization has also fired GM Thomas Dimitroff after an 0-5 start to the 2020 season. Will Brinson, Ryan Wilson and John Breech break down the decision, the timing of it and what's next for the tortured franchise.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, |
| 0:06.0 | everybody, everybody, |
| 0:06.0 | what's everybody, welcome to the Pick Six Podcast, |
| 0:08.0 | CBS Sports Daily NFL Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Wilburnton. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, and this is an emergency |
| 0:14.4 | podcast joining me now Ryan Wilson and John Breach to break down the firing |
| 0:18.8 | announced after week five's loss to the Carolina Panthers a not very pretty 23 to 16 L for the Falcons. |
| 0:27.2 | Dan Quinn, head coach of the Falcons, and Thomas de Mitchell, long time general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, both relieved of their duties. |
| 0:36.2 | Dan Blank announced it saying, decisions like this are very difficult with the previous two seasons and |
| 0:40.3 | start to this one have been especially hard for me because the deep love |
| 0:44.5 | admiration and respect I and my family have for Dan Thomas and their families. |
| 0:48.4 | For many years they have represented me our team organization at Land With class |
| 0:51.2 | commitment and all the passion you and one of the leaders of the team. |
| 0:54.0 | As everyone knows, this is a results business and I owe to our fans to put the best product we can on the field. |
| 0:59.0 | We report every resource possible in the winning and will continue to do so for the results of late do not meet our standard for what I've or what I've promised our fans |
| 1:07.1 | Therefore we'll install new coaching and personal leadership of the Atlanta Falcons at the appropriate time. |
| 1:13.2 | On a scale of 1 to 10, Wilson, how surprised are you that Adam Gace won't even be the |
| 1:19.8 | second coach fired. |
| 1:21.5 | He'll have to be the third coach fired if he wants to pull it off. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, I feel like Adam Gace, Doug Morone, Matt Patricia, they've lost their cover and |
| 1:31.0 | now that Dan Quinn and Bill O'Brien have been relieved with their duties. their |
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