In less than one season with the Atlanta Falcons, Raheem Morris is enjoying many advantages his predecessor, Arthur Smith, never had. Chiefly among them: not having to suffocate his tenure under some kind of albatross at the quarterback position.
The dead-money Falcons post-Matt Ryan drafted a fantasy football team comprising Kyle Pitts, Drake London and Bijan Robinson that was exciting on paper but ultimately nonfunctional with a combination of Marcus Mariota and Desmond Ridder under center. So, the next move was to hurl so much cash and draft capital at the quarterback position once Smith was fired that it would mask the fact Atlanta tried to build itself from the outside in.
