re: Worst backstabbing coach..

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Is that what you call it? I would say he made off like a thief in the night and walked out on his team with 3 games left to play. Stop acting like what he did isn't fricked up b/c you know it was. I don't love or hate Petrino or Ark so don't start with the I'm just bashing Arky shite either.

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Obviously you were there to hear every conversation between Petrino and the Falcon organization and that’s why you know so much about it, right? The ignorance and stupidity of some posters on here posting about things they know nothing about never ceases to amaze me.

The bottom line is that Blank didn’t give Petrino the latitude he was promised and Petrino was tired of all the shite going on with some of the Falcon players and wasn’t given the authority to change it. You might want to do a little research on you own to get all the facts so you won’t look so ignorant regurgitating the Falcon talking points.

This article wasn’t written by a Hog Fan but I caution you, don’t read it unless you want to become more informed as to what actually went down. Otherwise you can continue to spew ignorant information and think yourself as smart and important in doing so. This sums the situation up very nicely.

Petrino was promised Michael Vick and the support to do things his way. He got neither. A great job came open in a conference he wants to coach in. The Falcons still have Petrino's money to spend on someone else. End of story.

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Myth #8: Bobby Petrino treated the Falcons poorly - This is a saga built on incompetence and ego. The NFL might dominate that national sports landscape, but it does not do so in our Footprint. We have an entire dispatch set up to evaluate the success of the NFL in the Footprint. Of the 13 teams down here, most are failures in their ability to garner strong fan allegiance.

The Atlanta Falcons have long been the poster child for why the NFL doesn't work in the Footprint. The Bobby Petrino saga exposed all the chinks in the armor.

Let's review:

Petrino came on as coach with one objective - make Michael Vick a winning QB. Jim Mora was fired for his inability to do so. Unfortunately for the Falcons, the whole world soon found out that Michael Vick wasn't worth the effort.
Petrino was left with a horrible situation in Atlanta. The entire organization had been built around coddling Vick. With Vick gone, there was a complete leadership vacuum. The players were disrespectful of Petrino in the media and on the sidelines. Owner Arthur Blank and GM Rich McKay were silent as Petrino had to fend off criticism from the Atlanta media who was only too happy to report everything these malcontent babies (ie Alge Crumpler and DeAngelo Hall) were willing to spew.

Swampland Sports via SPF warned Blank throughout the season that this approach was a poor idea. Petrino was dealt a bad hand with Vick gone, and he was left to be savaged by the AJC on a weekly basis. Knowing his value in the college game, it was only likely that his agent might look around or at least take a call.
Like Jeffrey Chadiha of ESPN writes, Arthur Blank is to blame for this mess because his organization has no accountability. Chadiha still puts some blame on Petrino, but he points out that Blank gaveway too much latitude to Vick and to GM Rich McKay. Petrino could only fix so much with his veteran players openly rebelling at every turn.

The company line from Blank and McKay is that Petrino should have given it more time, that he let down his players, his coaching staff, and the city of Atlanta. Most of all, both claimed that they never saw this coming and that Petrino consistently lied to them about his intentions.
AJC story tells the real truth. Petrino and his agent expressed serious concerns about his tenure as the Falcons coach three weeks ago, and the Falcons (maybe not Blank, but definitely McKay) knew he was contemplating a move back to the college game. The details of Petrino's concerns about the Falcons will probably come out somewhere down the road, but the depth of the story now is that Petrino felt that he was not getting the latitude (probably on the personnel side) he was promised when he took the job.

The bottom line is that Petrino wanted to explore opportunities in college because of his growing unhappiness in dealing with the mess that Blank and McKay had allowed to happen.
At this point, Blank's ego started to get in the way. He thought, much like Wayne Huizenga last year with Saban, that coaching an NFL for a high salary was the top place for any coach. The idea that his coach would even entertain a move back to college surprised and angered him. (In fact, it took a call from Jerry Jones to wake Blank up to the fact that Petrino was interested in going back to college.)

Forever in marketing mode, Blank still had egg on his face from Vick and likely did not want to see his coach leave to go back to college. Blank knows that it would only reinforce the perception of the Falcons and the NFL as being a clear step behind college football in his home market.

When Petrino's agent couldn't get permission for his client to speak with Arkansas, Petrino was faced with a difficult choice. At that point, he made the decision to resign as the Falcons coach because that was the only way he could talk with Arkansas. Even with all the differences in accounts, both sides agree that it wouldn't have been allowed otherwise.

Knowing that Petrino's problems in Atlanta were in large part a reflection on Blank's permissive atmosphere around the team, there were probably a lot of people within the organization from players to management that wanted Petrino gone.

We find it interesting that one of the key rabblerousers, DeAngelo Hall, now wants the Falcons to give him an extension. This is truly a case of the inmates running the asylum. The players get rid of the coach and now they are trying to quickly get a big payday in the wake of his leaving.

Petrino was promised Michael Vick and the support to do things his way. He got neither. A great job came open in a conference he wants to coach in. The Falcons still have Petrino's money to spend on someone else. End of story.