Rich McKay Isn’t So Chatty Anymore

You know how the Tampa media is always dogging Bruce Allen for stonewalling them and not offering too much information about the team? It turns out that Rich McKay is getting the same treatment in Atlanta now.

So what's up with this? Can't tell you, because the supposedly media-savvy NFL executive when he joined the Falcons from Tampa four seasons ago rarely has returned phone calls to reporters for months. When you do see McKay around the Falcons' practice facility or at the Georgia Dome, don't blink. He'll disappear in a flash. If you didn't know better, you'd get the impression he can't stand the heat from the inferno around Flowery Branch.

And for those of you who think it's my imagination that McKay's ghost still looms large in Tampa, I'm not alone.

He remains so popular in west central Florida that you get the feeling that one of those bridges from Tampa to Pinellas County will bear his name someday.

Actually, it would be more appropriate to name a race track after him. It gets you out of where you are in a hurry, but you come back around very soon on the other side.

Here's another Atlanta article that neatly categorizes McKay's fuck ups with the Falcons. It's pretty good, especially the part about former players awaiting sentencing. Arthur Blank seems like a pretty patient guy, but I can't imagine he's going to let this go on forever. If the Falcons finish with fewer than five wins, there's a good chance he keeps Bobby Petrino around but replaces McKay.