Along with naming Craig Aukerman as their special teams coordinator, Robert Prince as their wide receivers coach and Bob Quinn as their senior advisor to the head coach, yesterday the Atlanta Falcons announced that they are retaining secondary coach Justin Hood, defensive line coach Nate Ollie and tight ends coach Kevin Koger.
Earlier today The Morning Shift talked about how it will be very telling if the Falcons keep Kevin Koger, and decide to not bring back Kyle Pitts.
“I love the fact that [Kevin] Koger is now back to help make this decision.” Mike Johnson said
Mike continued his thought by saying “This decision about Kyle Pitts is gonna tell us a lot of insight into how he is felt inside of that building and what people think of him. If Kevin Koger thinks he’s a hard worker and thinks he’s still being developed and there’s still a lot of upside and really you can plug him into an offensive scheme that suits him and he’d be really really good, then he’ll be back here, but if he doesn’t and Kevin Koger is going into these personnel meetings going I didn’t get 100% percent out of him this last offseason, there’s a reason he had a lull coming off the injury, i’m not sure where his head is at, if you don’t get him the ball early in the game he kind of tends to check out, then he probably won’t be back.”
Mike finished his thought by saying “I think there’s a lot left to be said about what’s on the table with Kevin Koger in some of these meetings because he knows the ups and downs of Kyle Pitts outside of Kevin Stefanski. I’m glad he’s going to be a part of the conversation.”
Whether the Falcons decide to keep Pitts or not the final decision will be very telling either way it goes, especially if they decide to not bring the former fourth overall pick back to Atlanta.