Byron watched football on Sunday

By: T. Love

Since Tim Ruskell bolted from the Atlanta Falcons’ front office to take the General Manager job for the Seattle Seahawks prior to the 2005-06 season, two things became painfully apparent. Ruskell was the brains behind the personnel decisions and Rich McKay is terrible at best.

I will still refrain from devoting an entire post to ripping Mr. McKay, so instead I will offer up some assistance as an armchair GM.

BYRON LEFTWICH IS STILL AVAIABLE!!

Despite his slow release, incredible lack of mobility and his questionable durability, Leftwich needs to be picked up by the Falcons in order to give Bobby Petrino more to work with than just Joey Harrington and Chris Redman.

It has been only one game, but Joey was the same old Joey. Held on to the ball too long, no shots downfield, did nothing to help his team win and did everything to make them lose. There is absolutely no way that the team can go through the entire season with Harrington under center.

Leftwich has a career completion percentage of 58.7 and has thrown 51 touchdowns to just 36 interceptions. These are not “franchise QB” stats, which the former Marshall standout was selected seventh overall in the 2003 draft to be. But, he would at least make for a decent pillow fight between he and Harrington all season long for the starting job. Competition brings out the best in everyone.

Neither of these guys are the answer and Brian Brohm or the dude from Kentucky look more and more like the future of the Falcons (for the record, I refuse to buy into this guy from Kentucky after their last “highly touted” quarterback). However, there at least needs to be an effort by Mr. McKay to fix this QB situation.

The guy that was used to hide all of this team’s deficiencies is gone. This is the elephant in the room and you have got to do something, Rich.