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Falcons BREAKING: Trade Candidate Deion Jones Moves to PUP

For now? It’s the start of camp … and a stint on the Physically Unable to Perform List … as more moves may be on the way.
MIKE FISHERJUL 21, 2022 5:29 PM EDT

There have been trade rumors. Even cut rumors. But first comes a Thursday move of Deion Jones … to the PUP list.

There’s no real debating the fact that the Atlanta Falcons are officially in rebuild mode after a 7-10 season in 2021.

But could part of the process of rebooting the franchise come at the cost of parting ways with Pro Bowl veteran linebacker Deion Jones?

ESPN recently released its candidates to land on the roster bubble for all 32 teams. Jones, 27, was listed as a potential victim of the chopping block later this offseason for the Falcons. Here's what the list had to say:

This is a tricky one, because Jones not being on the roster would likely come more due to a trade than a release -- but at this point, anything is possible with the 2017 Pro Bowler. His dead money (almost $19 million) would be tough for Atlanta to deal with, but it already has over $63 million in dead cap space for 2022, so it might not matter that much. To be clear, this doesn't mean Jones won't be on the team this fall -- he could be -- but rather that his overall situation with the Falcons is up in the air.

It would certainly sting for the Falcons to part ways with a longtime player like Jones. But with his four-year, $57 million deal set to expire as he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2024, Atlanta could certainly look to trade him before the start of this season in order to add valuable draft stock or young talent for the future.


As a rookie in 2016, Jones was the league-leader in pick-sixes (two) and interception return yards (165) from his linebacker spot. Since then, he's turned himself into one of the more underrated backers in the NFL. He's started 83 of a possible 85 games in his career.

Along with being one of the fastest at his position, Jones has also remained extremely durable during his six years in the league. He's started 16 games in four out of six seasons while totaling 652 total tackles, 40 tackles-for-loss, 8.5 sacks, four forced fumbles, 44 passes defended, 11 interceptions, and five total touchdowns.

But he’s expensive. And he’s fallen out of favor. And he’s rehabbing from off-season shoulder surgery. So for now? It’s the start of camp … and a stint on the Physically Unable to Perform List … as more moves may be on the way.

https://www.si.com/nfl/falcons/news/breaking-trade-candidate-deion-jones-moves-pup-injury-rumor-cut

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Here it comes............


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..........................................What's a Deion Jones?

I don't think it matters a whole lot who we've got at LB if the play in front of them doesn't improve. Also, I think the inability to "cut block" OL any more is part of our run defense problem. If an undersized defender can't go low to plug up a hole, his chance of successfully defending the run isn't great. They're not going to win heads up against a pulling lineman, and trying to go around opens up lanes to the side they don't choose. The league definitely doesn't make it easy to play defense. You really need to control the line of scrimmage to be successful now against the run, and our interior has been getting manhandled.

We traded with the Falcons after playing them. Maybe we can do the same with Carolina now. I have seen trade speculation around CMC and DJ Moore, but we could use Derrick Brown.

I agree and disagree w/your takes.

I think our LBer play is more important than you say. They are bad. Terrible tacklers. Poor depth against the pass. Weak.

On the other hand, you make a great point about the cut rule and undersized defenders.

I also agree that Derrick Brown would be a nice get.

Really good player and a shoulder injury doesn't scare me off a cover linebacker. I think it's a great trade, low risk, very high upside.

The defensive scheme Woods is attempting to use is not suited for any NFL team.

Like most of the rest of the NFL, the Browns used a base defense that had just two LBs on the field. The 4-2-5 or even the 4-1-6 as a base formation was the dominant deployment. Those two made up over half of the total defensive snaps in the NFL in 2020.

You might want to rethink that. This is from the 2020 season.




You can read the full article here. It has a neat chart that is helpful:


https://brownswire.usatoday.com/202...se-no-more-4-3-joe-woods-lb-snap-counts/

Playing “Six Degrees of Vic,” the coach and/or defensive coordinator of six teams have a direct connection to Fangio: Coaches Brandon Staley of the Los Angeles Chargers (worked for Fangio in Chicago and the Broncos) and Robert Saleh of the New York Jets (Houston) and four defensive coordinators — the Broncos’ Ejiro Evero (San Francisco), Minnesota’s Ed Donatell (San Francisco, Chicago and the Broncos), Seattle’s Clint Hurtt (Chicago) and Detroit’s Aaron Glenn (played for Fangio in Houston).

A second degree produces three more coordinators: Green Bay’s Joe Barry (worked for Staley with the Los Angeles Rams) and two coaches who worked under Saleh with the 49ers — Cleveland’s Joe Woods and the 49ers’ DeMeco Ryans.

Add it up and that is 28.1% of the league.

“It’s a copy-cat league and when you have success, people look at it,” said Tony Dungy, the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach who works for NBC. “(Coaches) study tape and they take the good things and they take the principles from it. Coach Fangio has had success with a number of franchises and those principles are good.”

Based on the this year's evidence evidence and fact based assessment of Woods defensive coaching ability and his ability to build a scheme around available talent combined with his play calling on game day - I'd say there is a strong suggestion hat Wood's scheme is not fit for the NFL.

I don't know if that is mostly player talent - in which case maybe the spot light has to fall on Berry.

I don't know if that's lack of ability to coach, teach and get players playing up to or above their natural ability.

I don't know if it's effort and desire - something alluded to in a few posts recently - in which case it is Stefanski, Woods and every coach on the team.