We are just three days away from the Falcons taking the field against the Bears and putting last Sunday’s nightmarish collapse in the rear-view mirror.
For now, though, Atlanta’s coaching staff is still trying to get their stories straight to the media. After head coach Dan Quinn said the players on the field during the Cowboys’ onside-kick recovery knew the rules, team owner Arthur Blank expressed his doubts about that on SiriusXM NFL radio.
Falcons special teams coach Ben Kotwica talked to the media before Thursday’s practice and gave his take on the situation.
“Our players knew that they could go into the restraining area and recover the ball,” Kotwica said. “But they also knew that if they went into the restraining area to recover the spinning football, that there’s a risk that if they don’t recover it cleanly, that gives the kicking team the opportunity to recover the ball.”
“We should have aggressively gotten on the football, ” Kotwica clarified at the end of his statement — which you can see below in the tweet shared by ESPN’s Vaughn McClure.
Falcons special teams coach Ben Kotwica on failed onside kick recovery vs. Cowboys pic.twitter.com/OEp9Fa9aFs
— vaughn mcclure (@vxmcclure23) September 24, 2020
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