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INDIANAPOLIS — Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot and coach Raheem Morris said Tuesday at the NFL scouting combine that the team was unaware quarterback Kirk Cousins was dealing with an injury late in the 2024 season.

Cousins said, on NFL Network during Super Bowl week, that he got hit in the Week 10 game with the New Orleans Saints and hurt his right shoulder and right elbow. The arm, Cousins said, never got back to where he wanted it to be the rest of the season.

The Falcons put Cousins on the injury report one day

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This past season has featured the good, bad and ugly for the Atlanta Falcons.

The team had high hopes going into 2024. The Falcons sold out their season-ticket packages before training camp for the first time in 20 years. The players rewarded the fans with a 6-3 start and two exciting wins over the division rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In Week 2, newly acquired quarterback Kirk Cousins led them to a comeback win on the road, on “Monday Night Football,” against the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that would eventually win the

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NEW YORK GIANTS coach Bill Parcells wanted to make an example out of nose tackle Jim Burt. The Giants had lost three out of their last four games in October 1984, and another season of disappointment — they had gone 3-12-1 the year prior — seemed to be playing out.

On the Thursday before a key divisional game against Washington, Parcells kept Burt after practice and forced him to jab a wall while holding 20-pound dumbbells for 45 minutes straight. Parcells wanted the other players to see how he was punishing Burt, so they would work hard

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Kirk Cousins‘ first season with the Atlanta Falcons did not go as planned for either party, and now the quarterback has finally shed some light on why things went sideways for him after a strong start.

Cousins said Tuesday on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” that he took a hit during the team’s Week 10 game against the New Orleans Saints and hurt his right shoulder and elbow. Previously, he and the team had maintained that he was healthy.

“I, against the Saints, got hit pretty good in my right shoulder and elbow and from there

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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Jeff Ulbrich entered the press room Monday and shook hands with every member of the assembled media. In some cases, it wasn’t so much of an introduction as a reconnection with some familiar faces.

Ulbrich, the former New York Jets interim head coach, was introduced as the defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons on Monday. Before the Jets, Ulbrich coached with the Falcons from 2015 to 2020 as the linebackers coach, assistant head coach and interim defensive coordinator.

“It’s coming home for me,” Ulbrich said.

Ulbrich worked in Atlanta under then-head coach Dan

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