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Getty Images The Doomsday Defense took on a new meaning last season in Dallas as the Cowboys Defense ranked as one of the worst — if not the worst — in team history. The Cowboys allowed a franchise-record 473 points, topping the team-record 436 in 2010. The 6,183 total yards allowed and 2,541...

Getty Images The Falcons have moved to retain one of their own. Per NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport, Atlanta has signed defensive tackle Jacob Tuioti-Mariner to a one-year contract extension. Tuioti-Mariner was an exclusive rights free agent. Tuioti-Mariner appeared in all 16 games for Atlanta last...

Getty Images The Falcons have brought back four exclusive rights free agents, including kicker Younghoe Koo, the team announced on Thursday. Koo led the league with 37 made field goals in 2020, missing only two attempts all year. Koo was 8-of-8 on attempts of at least 50 yards. He also...

Getty Images The Packers didn’t apply the franchise tag to running back Aaron Jones. The Packers still want to sign him, but to do so they’ll have to successfully persuade him to not sign with another team. As usual, money talks. Who will speak the most loudly? The folks at PointsBet have...

Getty Images The NFL has set the salary cap at $182.5 million for the 2021 season on Wednesday and they’ve also set the amount that teams will have to pay if they exercise their fifth-year option on 2018 first-round picks. The Collective Bargaining Agreement that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to...

Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 compensatory draft picks, which now include special compensatory picks rewarding teams for developing minority coaches and executives. The selections this year are from the third to sixth rounds. With the CBA limiting the number of compensatory...

Getty Images Success in football is premised on successfully lying. As the draft approaches, the lying often reaches a fever pitch. There are plenty of reasons for lying in the top 10 this year. If, as expected, quarterbacks Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson become the top two picks, the next...

Getty Images There will be another veteran guard on the free agent market. Atlanta is releasing James Carpenter, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero report. Carpenter has spent the last two seasons with the Falcons, starting 24 games for the club. He had two years remaining on his...

Getty Images Dak Prescott‘s contract easily can be called the best contract ever signed (once it’s officially signed) by any player in league history. The relatively straightforward details of the contract are set forth below (per a source with knowledge of the contract), followed by some...

USA TODAY Sports The Falcons will likely have Matt Ryan and Julio Jones as their top two offensive players once again in 2021. But that’s not going to stop them from planning for the future. In his first offseason, General Manager Terry Fontenot has said before that like Ron Wolf, he plans to...

Getty Images The Falcons have added a second punter to their roster. The team announced the signing of Dom Maggio on Monday. Sterling Hofrichter handled the punting during the 2020 season and is the other punter on the roster in Atlanta. Maggio spent offseason time with the Ravens after going...

Getty Images New Falcons General Manager Terry Fontenot is making more changes within the organization. Fontenot has fired longtime Vice President of Player Affairs Kevin Winston, who had ben with the franchise for 15 years, and head trainer Marty Lauzon, who had been with the franchise for 11...

Getty Images The NFL told President Joe Biden last month that all 30 of its stadiums were available as mass coronavirus vaccination sites. Half of the NFL’s stadiums now are being used for that purpose, and the White House announced Friday that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta will expand its...

Getty Images Arthur Smith has benefitted from calling plays for running back Derrick Henry for the last two seasons. He’s well aware things will change now that he’s the head coach in Atlanta. “We’re not going to have Derrick Henry here,” Smith said, via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta...

Getty Images NFL rules for this offseason allow for free agents to visit with teams before signing and Ricardo Allen has taken advantage of that opportunity. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Allen visited with the Bengals on Tuesday. It’s the first known visit that Allen has taken since...

Getty Images The following are PFT’s top 100 free agents for the start of the 2021 league year. The rankings include prospective unrestricted free agents, as well as released players. The list will be updated as events warrant, with signings, tags and re-signings denoted when announced and/or...

Getty Images Seven teams, nearly a full fourth of the league, changed coaches during or after the 2020 season. Those seven teams requested a total of 58 interviews. Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press has obtained the internal NFL football operations list of 2021 head coach interview requests...

Getty Images There’s no Combine this year and NFL teams are not currently permitted to have in-person meetings with draft prospects at the moment, which means that the pre-draft process is going to be virtual outside of Pro Day workouts. Some of that is the same as last year and Falcons head...

USA TODAY Sports The Falcons have a new General Manager and new head coach tasked with turning around a team that finished 4-12 in 2020. That’s not going to be the easiest task, especially as Atlanta is one of the teams currently slated to be over the projected 2021 salary cap. But earlier...

USA TODAY Sports Longtime NFL defensive assistant Dean Pees retired for the second time following the 2019 season. This retirement lasted a year, rather than just a few weeks like in 2018. But Pees said late last month that he un-retired to work with new Falcons head coach Arthur Smith. Smith...