Rich McKay's Future

Post #1 » by **HMFFL** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:13 pm

Does he stay with Atlanta or go to another team? Cleveland will interview him and it's very possible that other teams will do the same.

McKay gets OK to interview with Browns

Falcons president Rich McKay has been granted permission by owner Arthur Blank to interview for the vacant general manager position with the Cleveland Browns.

McKay was stripped of his general manager duties after last season. He stayed on with the Falcons to help in several capacities.

McKay has stepped into the background this season as Thomas Dimitroff took over the football operations. He’s been instrumental in helping Dimitroff with the salary cap, contract negotiations, the Falcons pursuit of new stadium options and several other business operations.

McKay, co-chair of the league’s powerful competition committee, came to the Falcons in 2004 after a successful stint with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Falcons went to the NFC Championship game in McKay’s first year, but things went sour with his hirings of Jim Mora> and Bobby Petrino, poor free agent signings, like Ed Hartwell, and failed high draft picks in DeAngelo Hall and Jimmy Williams.

The jury is still out on defensive end Jamaal Anderson, who was taken with the No. 8 overall pick in the 2008 draft.

To McKay’s credit he did select guard Justin Blalock, wide receivers Roddy White and Michael Jenkins and made the trade for defensive end John Abraham.

McKay’s tenure with the Falcons was marked by the federal dogfighting investigation which landed quarterback Michael Vick in prison.

McKay did not return a call to his cell phone.

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treiz · Post #2 » by **treiz** » Thu Jan 1, 2009 6:30 pm

I think he leaves, he'd want that GM position

Post #3 » by **Rooster** » Fri Jan 2, 2009 5:05 pm

I think it could go either way. Depends how much autonomy he feels like he has within the Falcons organization right now. If he feels like a major player in the decision-making processes of an 11-5 team, he'll stay. If he feels like a marginalized puppet whose team won in spte of him, who wouldn't want to leave that situation and prove the old team wrong?