As Atlanta Falcons General Manager Ian Cunningham, and the rest of the Falcons front office continues to sign free agents, The Morning Shift earlier today explained why they believe the Falcons main goal and mission for next season is to figure out who is and isn't part of their long term future.
“We were gonna find out everything we need to know this week about what the Falcons front office thinks about the 2026 season, said it a dozen times over the last month leading into this week, and guess what we found out. 2026 is going to be a year where you separate who can help you moving forward and who can not…” Mike Johnson said
Mike finished his thought by saying “You’re not going to give out money to aging players and push money down the road for a team that might be mediocre or even worse, and I think we have clearly defined ourselves in that role where we are trying to get as many draft picks next year as possible, we’re trying to save as much cap space as we can for next year, and I think that we have to come to terms with that.”
While the 2026-27 Falcons team will still be competitive, next season for the Falcons will be all about finding out if your franchise quarterback is on the roster, as Mike said, re-establishing who the core players and foundational players are on this Falcons team that you can build around along with Drake London, Bijan Robinson, Jalon Walker, Billy Bowman Jr., and Xavier Watts, and then accumulating draft capital and cap space that you can use next offseason to build a team that can contend for a Super Bowl.