Nielsen takes Falcons DC job

saint_drago said

Well this has been a few years in the making. I'm surprised we were able to keep him as long as we did considering what he was able to do with the D line early in his career. But the past few years the D line hasn't been great shakes. He was elite when the front was absurdly stacked. Since then it's been a mixed bag.

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I don't believe Nielsen is solely to blame for the regression of the D-Line. We have bled talent the past few years by letting good players leave through free agency and trading away talent like Malcolm Brown. Now we're down to starting players that were or are undrafted free agents. We've lost Sheldon Rankins, Trey Hendrickson and Malcolm Brown. Just those 3 players made our D-Line practically elite.
I don't like it at all, but you can't blame Nielsen for taking t he Atlanta DC position when he's going to have complete control of the defense, which he didn't have here. I do wish him luck.