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The 2016 season was the Atlanta Falcons' 51st in the National Football League (NFL) and their second under head coach Dan Quinn.It also marked the team's 25th and final season playing their home games at the Georgia Dome, ahead of their move to the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2017.
There have been 18 head coaches for the Falcons franchise, 13 serving full-time. Among full-time head coaches, Mike Smith is the Falcons' winningest and longest tenured head coach, with a 66–46 regular season record. Under Smith's leadership, the team attained consecutive winning seasons (11–5 in 2008 and 9–7 in 2009), consecutive playoff ...
On February 2, 2015, Quinn was hired as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. [11] He won his first game as head coach on Monday Night Football. The Falcons started 5–0 before finishing the season 8–8 and missing the playoffs. [12] In the 2016 season, the Falcons won the NFC South with an 11–5 record. [13]
The Atlanta Falcons officially added three more assistant coaches to Arthur Smith's staff on Saturday morning.
On January 26, 2015, it was announced Morris was joining the Atlanta Falcons as assistant head coach/defensive backs. [15] On January 25, 2016, he was named the wide receivers coach and no longer the defensive backs coach. [16] In the 2016 season, Morris and the Falcons reached Super Bowl LI, where they faced the New England Patriots on ...
Smith became the first coach to guide the Falcons to back-to-back winning seasons, while Quinn’s tenure will always be remembered for the team squandering a 28-3 lead to Tom Brady and the New ...
Belichick was coach of the New England Patriots when they pulled off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, rallying from a 28-3 deficit in the second half to beat the Falcons 34-28 in ...
Falcons uniform: 1971–1989 Falcons uniform: 1997–2002 Falcons uniform: 2016–19, including the throwback edition. The Atlanta Falcons' colors are black, red, silver and white. [138] When the team began play in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo. In the center of the helmet was a center black stripe surrounded ...