One of many first Falcons tales I noticed on Thursday was a narrative about Terry Fontenot being referred to as out by Senior Bowl govt director Jim Nagy for not being on the annual showcase of faculty soccer’s prime expertise.
Now, on its face this sounds dangerous: The GM of a group that desperately wants an inflow of expertise this offseason didn’t even trouble to go to the Senior Bowl?
Right here’s the tweet the story referred to:
Now let me clarify why it is a nothingburger.
I reached out to the group for remark, and to start with, Fontenot was not the one GM who wasn’t there. Payments GM Brandon Beane was absent because of exit conferences in Buffalo, per Jay Skurski of the Buffalo Information.
Second, Fontenot didn’t attend final 12 months’s Senior Bowl both as a result of Falcons’ head coach hiring course of. However because of the marvels of recent know-how, any GM who doesn’t attend nonetheless has entry to movie of each single exercise and every interview their group conducts. This would possibly truly be extra helpful than being there in individual, as a result of limits on what number of personnel from every group are allowed on the sphere typically relegates group representatives to the suites as an alternative of area stage.
The underside line is: Terry Fontenot didn’t miss out on something by not being on the Senior Bowl — aside from the free Reese’s cups.
