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One of the biggest adjustments new Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith will have to make when coming over from the Tennessee Titans is not having superstar running back Derrick Henry anymore.
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Henry makes the life of an offensive coordinator much easier. Not only is he a big-play threat whenever he gets the ball, but that same threat forces opposing defense to bring help, opening things up in the passing game.
But Smith is a realist and he knows he won’t have the same caliber of running back with the Falcons, which is something he is ready to adjust to, according to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
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“We’re not going to have Derrick Henry here,” Smith said “So, it’s not like I think we’re going to have Derrick Henry… Hand it off and watch him stiff-arm 15 people and go 99 (yards). You’d love to have that, but that’s not reality.”
Instead, at least for now, Smith plans on deploying multiple backs and will trust his scheme to get the job done.
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“The reality is that we’ll get multiple backs in here, and we’ll have the way we trust our schemes and the way we teach the details of it, and we’ll commit to it,” Smith explained. “That should provide hope to people because of that mindset.”
Smith and the Falcons will have some work to do in improving their current stable of backs if the former Titans offensive coordinator wants to have anywhere close to the success in the run game that he had in Nashville.
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However, no matter who the Falcons bring in through free agency and/or the draft, chances are none of them will be able to replicate what Henry can do on the football field, at least not right away.