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The trade for tight end Tony Gonzalez has Atlanta feeling super.
In case you haven’t heard, the NFL’s all-time leader in receptions, touchdowns and yards at tight end, Tony Gonzalez, is now an Atlanta Falcon. The rest of this piece could be completed by going on and on about how Gonzalez played all 12 of his NFL seasons in Kansas City before being moved to Atlanta for a second-round pick in 2010.
Gonzalez joins a unit that might be on the verge of becoming the NFL’s new offensive super power. The Falcons ranked 6th in the NFL last season in offense. With Matt Ryan looking more and more like a Peyton Manning clone entering his second season and Roddy White on the verge of becoming the league most dangerous receiver, adding a savvy veteran with 76 career touchdowns and over 10,000 yards receiving can only enhance the play of everyone on the offensive side of the ball.
As if the names above weren’t scary enough, add the 235-pound Michael “the burner” Turner into this mix and you see that the New Orleans Saints might not be the NFC South’s most dangerous offense any longer.
Besides the statistical increase the Falcons should have with Gonzo, the locker room should benefit as well. Gonzalez isn’t playing for stats, he isn’t playing for another big payday...he’s playing for something that weighs about 3.8 ounces and has roughly five carats.
The trade of Tony Gonzalez tells us two things. One, the Chiefs are rebuilding and two--and who would of imagined it at this time last year--that the Falcons are reloading.  Trackback(0)
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