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1. First steps back. In a little more than two weeks, the Falcons will welcome back their players to Flowery Branch for the first time since their Super Bowl collapse. And in case you’re wondering, coach Dan Quinn isn’t planning on tiptoeing past the elephant sitting on the Atlanta sidelines. When I asked him on Wednesday if the loss to the Patriots will be the first thing he brings up when he gathers his team on April 17 to open spring work, he answered succinctly: “Yeah, it will be.”

Sometimes in these situations, you hear of coaches either burying or accentuating a bad moment in its aftermath in an effort to either get players to move on or convince them to forget. As he explained it to me, Quinn plans to do neither. The team won’t be watching Super Bowl 51 as a group, and there won’t be quirky reminders of the blown lead strewn about the building. But they also won’t be avoiding it either. Quinn doesn’t plan to remove cutups of the game from the team’s film library for the coming classroom work. In essence, he wants to create a sense of normalcy in the building to help the team turn the page to 2017 Authentic Addison Reed Jersey , while taking all the good of 2016 and growing it. And that is in part thanks to advice he got on moving past hard championship losses over the past two months from San Antonio Spurs GM R.C. Buford, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona and Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.

“The first piece I took was, ‘Yeah, you gotta talk about it’,” Quinn said. “You have to talk about what happened, why it happened, and take ownership for it. … What I did learn from them, you go back and you battle again, and when you have a really tight team that helps. That’s the case in San Antonio. That’s the case in Golden State. And that’s the case in Cleveland. The players are so connected Authentic Ian Thomas Jersey , there’s not a lot of ‘I’m the reason’ or ‘You’re the reason.’ It helps a lot. That’s the common thread between San Antonio, Golden State and why they’re playing so well now, and why I bet Cleveland plays well again this year too. It’s not like, ‘I played well, so I’m good.’ They want to battle for one another.”

We all saw the challenge ahead for the Falcons in how their division rival in Carolina struggled last year, after a 17-1 start to 2015 came apart in Super Bowl 50, and bled into a 6-10 season in 2016. We’ll see whether Atlanta can sidestep the issues the Panthers couldn’t, but this much is sure—Quinn’s done all he can to address whatever lies ahead.

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2. Browns’ quarterback situation remains unsettled. As of right now, Cleveland has a quarterback it doesn’t intend to keep (Brock Osweiler) and two rising sophomore signal-callers (Cody Kessler Authentic Mika Zibanejad Jersey , Kevin Hogan) at the game’s most important position, which seems to imply that they have an addition coming over the next five weeks. So with most other quarterback situations around the league having crystallized, the picture is a little clearer on where the Browns could go.

You can’t start here without looking hard at Jimmy Garoppolo, the Patriots backup who I believe is the pick of the litter in the Browns’ minds. The problem is price tag. Other clubs who’ve inquired on Garoppolo’s availability have been left with the idea that the Patriots aren’t trading him. I mentioned last week the Bears’ decision to move forward on Mike Glennon is serving as an implicit signal to the rest of the league that Tom Brady’s No. 2 is either prohibitively expensive or off the block entirely. Cleveland coach Hue Jackson said at these meetings that the team won’t trade the No. 1 overall pick, so the likelihood is it’d cost the Browns the 12th and something else substantial to get the Patriots to even think about it.

If Garoppolo isn’t an option, eyes will turn to the draft, where the Browns are likely to take Myles Garrett first, with the looming potential of pouncing on local native/North Carolina QB Mitchell Trubisky at 12 (if he falls that far). But here’s one I wouldn’t rule out—Bengals backup AJ McCarron. Jackson and then-staffmate Ken Zampese were McCarron’s biggest champions inside that organization before the 2014 draft, and McCarron’s got size Authentic Natrell Jamerson Jersey , better-than-you-think athleticism, good arm talent and a ton of big-game experience. He’s also got more NFL starts than Garoppolo, and was within a whisper of winning a playoff game just 15 months ago. And he entered the league with a blown throwing shoulder—one reason he fell to the fifth round—that’s since been fixed.

Is this to say McCarron’s a better option than Garoppolo? No, and I don’t think the Browns think he is. But he certainly may be a better buy, based on the expected prices.

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