**Breaking News** Atlanta Falcons release WR Roddy White

[Sly Cookin]

Did you forget we had a 6 game losing streak while Hankerson was here?

He was injury prone and dropped a ton of passes. This coaching staff's preferred #2 WR was a complete bust at the expense of Roddy.

And yea Roddy lost a couple steps but could he have still been a contributor to this team? Yes, only a hater would argue otherwise

It was a bad move for a team lacking in credibility at the moment...what have Quinn & Shanny done to garner so much respect and belief in their system? You get rid of the most competitive player and one of your leaders so that you can save $2 million, is that something as a Falcons fan you're proud of? Because we might get a guy who gets over 500 yards as the third WR next season? Cmon breh

Yea a six game losing streak when the fanbase demanded more passes be thrown to Roddy. After the first 5 games hankerson was hurt and he was released week 8 so no he wasn't here during the losing streak.

Breh you grasping at straws. The man was getting outplayed by fukking nick Williams. Even julio said Roddy ain't learn the playboy until week 14.

I agree Roddy WAS the most competitive player on the team. Key word, WAS. It's over like big boss said. Cutting Roddy won't be the reason why we are or aren't successful next yr.

 

[FreshFromATL]

See this is the problem with our fanbase. We hate sacred cows but when the organization makes a tough decision everybody is up in arms. This is addition by subtraction.

Matt Ryan will be here next yr so deal with it. We have 30 million to spend so let's fortify the line and add talent. This is an opportunity to get better as a TEAM so why be negative?

I just don't believe in Matt Ryan

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

What [Shanahan] expected from me and what I expected from him was totally different,” White said Saturday at the UAB alumni football game, via Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com. “I expected to play a bigger role in the offense, and that’s what I wanted to do. But he didn’t have that in his desires. He had other people that he wanted to play my role, so he wanted me to be out of the [offense]. That was the whole thing. And it is what it is. I can’t do nothing about it. I can’t change his way of thinking or anything like that. I can just do what I did, which was just handle my business and get myself prepared for this moment.”

Some think the Shanahan offense was too complex. White disagrees, sort of.

“No it wasn’t,” White said, “besides the things [Shanahan] was doing in making six variations to one route. It was just episodes throughout the game where I think he mismanaged things and screwed up and we didn’t have the opportunity to win the game, which, I thought, was on him as the offensive coordinator. It wasn’t sound football, but it was things that he was used to doing and things we weren’t used to doing as an offense, and it literally cost us like two games.”

Did White share his concerns with Shanahan?

“Man, I talked to him just about every day about everything,” White said. “But it’s like, ‘If I’m talking to you and it’s not getting no better, what do you expect from me?’ He kept trying to tell you all what he’s trying to do with the offense, but for the last 11 weeks of the season, we didn’t do anything. We didn’t turn no curves. The first four weeks were good. We went out there and scored a bunch of points and started off strong. But other than that, we didn’t do nothing the rest of the year.”
Roddy White tees off on Kyle Shanahan

 

[Xerces]

Matt Ryan said they started to get "it" despite only winning 2 games towards the end of the year.

While " winning" 5 out the gate

Say your offense " got it" while only winning 2 games brehs

Roddy says the offense wasn't hard at all


Falcons will never win it,with Matt being one of the main bread winners

 

[360dagod]

Anytime a shanahan is involved, the odds of fukkery are really high...

Roddy seems like someone who ruffles feathers

 

[Xerces]

Anytime a shanahan is involved, the odds of fukkery are really high...

Roddy seems like someone who ruffles feathers

No Roddy is a clown as well

Dude's percentages on talking crap publically and actually backing it up when the time comes; is low

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Panthers

 

[Hollywood Co]

Falcons organization are clowns for how they handled Roddy during the season and cutting him the way they did.

The sense of incompetence is already starting to creep up with Quinn and this staff. It should be of no suprise tho when you keep the GM that created this mess around.