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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Falcons fire HC Raheem Morris & GM Terry Fontenot + Breaking down NFC playoff field (1/5 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including Falcons firing HC Raheem Morris and GM Terry Fontenot, looking at other head coaches on hot seat, Myles Garrett breaking single-season sack record, and more.

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0:00.0

No, you know, like you can't worry about those things, right? The boss sitting right there and like, you know, all those things. This is a business what we do, man. I know it's like fun for you guys to talk about it, but like those decisions always be made at the proper time. Those decisions all be made, utilized whatever's best for the Atlanta Falcons. Do you expect to be back next year? You know, my expectations is always to be packed, right? And then I'm going to coach this football team long as he's lousson.

0:26.2

That's for him Morris after the Falcons finished the season with their fourth straight win.

0:31.2

That's crazy.

0:32.0

They were four-and-one in prime time.

0:34.4

They beat the Saints to end the regular season.

0:38.6

They delivered a playoff berth at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And it was the first move made Sunday night, not long

0:44.3

after we went off the air. The reports, you know how it goes. The reports are out there,

0:48.9

and then five minutes later, the team announces that both Rahim Morris and GM Terry

0:52.6

Fontno have been fired. Morris was there for two years. He was 16 and 18. Fontno five seasons is the GM. The team went 36 and 48 under his leadership. Eight years, no playoffs. The last time they made it to the postseason was 2017, I believe. Lost to the Eagles and the divisional round. That's right.

1:11.3

Yep.

1:11.8

Right.

1:12.0

Close game down to the end.

1:13.6

Nick Foles and then pulled it out.

1:14.9

And this tells me that, look, number one, they've known this is coming.

1:20.3

They've had consultants on site.

1:22.2

They apparently got multiple consulting firms.

1:24.3

Matt Ryan is floating around.

1:26.2

And I think this all traces back to. This is the

1:30.8

price that is paid for. $100 million fully guaranteed to Kirk Cousins. And then 43 days later,

1:36.3

the eighth overall pick and the draft being used on Michael Pennix Jr. That didn't work. That was

1:41.5

the move. And that was criticized at the time. It happened. Where is the vision, where is the strategy, I guarantee you, if they had hired Bill Belichick to be the head coach two years ago, there's no way. Say what you will about Bill Belichick. There's no way he would have spent $100 million fully guaranteed on Kirk Cousins and then the eighth overall pick on a quarterback. They were taking a huge risk and it didn't work. And this is the price that comes due when you take a risk like that, and it doesn't work. Well, you know my thoughts on that. I mean, damn, I mean, when they did that, I went off forever, and I mean, I got a friendship with Rahim Morris, but I went off on it. They're like, what? What are we doing? I mean, how could you do that? I mean, to the point where I was, like, worried I was so strong, I was like, man, I don't know if Rahim's ever going to talk to me again. But obviously, they did that, but I'm with you. And then I believe that was the start at the end. That was bad team management, period. Bad. As I said last week, when you have a guy that's the highest paid player on your football team and he's the backup and not playing, there's something wrong with your team.

2:39.5

A guy that's making $50 million a year, you can get seven other players on your football team to round out your football team.

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