Arthur Clean: Falcons are in a greater place than we have been in a lot of years

The Falcons had their seventh straight dropping season in 2024 after dropping their ultimate two video games of the yr, however workforce proprietor Arthur Clean isn’t doubting the monitor that his workforce is on as they head into the 2025 marketing campaign.

Head coach Raheem Morris took over the workforce earlier than the beginning of final season and made a big change when he benched quarterback Kirk Cousins within the first yr of the four-year contract he signed with the workforce as a free agent. First-round choose Michael Penix took over and is now firmly entrenched within the beginning lineup whereas a change at defensive coordinator has Jeff Ulbrich calling the photographs on that facet of the ball this time round.

Falcons Common Supervisor Terry Fontenot traded a future first-round choose so as to add edge rusher James Pearce within the first spherical of this yr’s draft. Clean mentioned on Saturday that these sorts of choices go away him feeling assured they “have the best individuals” calling the photographs in Atlanta and that “we’ve the components that we are able to look ahead to with a purpose to be persistently aggressive.”

“We’re in a greater place now, team-wise, coaching-wise, completely throughout the board than we’ve been in a lot of years,” Clean mentioned, through Marc Raimondi of ESPN.com. “And so we had been shut final yr, didn’t end the best way we needed to complete, for certain. Each one of many coaches would say that. Gamers would say that, as nicely. And, definitely, I really feel that means, however I believe incrementally we’ve gotten that significantly better. And so, I look ahead to the season and a special set of outcomes on the finish of the season.”

The Falcons have hovered across the .500 mark for many of their run of dropping seasons and so they misplaced six one-score video games final season, so there’s cause to suppose they aren’t distant from breaking by means of for a profitable season in 2025. The outcomes must come on the sector quite than on paper, although, and the following few weeks will probably be spent making an attempt to show Clean proper in regards to the trajectory in Atlanta.