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ATLANTA (AP) — practice facility and given the keys to the Los Angeles Rams for the week.The Falcons are determined to be good hosts to the Rams Kaleb McGary Jersey 2019 , who are using the facility as their practice site for Sunday’s Super Bowl 53. The Falcons insist they’d have been just as hospitable if it were their bitter rival New Orleans Saints using their locker room, meeting rooms and practice field for the week.As part of Atlanta’s winning bid for this Super Bowl, the Falcons’ facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia, north of Atlanta, is home to the Rams, who beat the Saints for the NFC championship. The AFC champion New England Patriots are practicing at Georgia Tech’s facility this week.Each practice site has an indoor facility, which will be important with possible winter weather arriving on Tuesday.The obvious dream of Falcons owner Arthur Blank was to have his team play in Atlanta’s Super Bowl in the second year of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Instead, the Patriots — who beat the Falcons in Super Bowl 51 — are back Kaleb McGary Atlanta Falcons Jersey , while the Rams look to repeat their win in the last Atlanta Super Bowl in 2000, when they represented St. Louis.Spencer Treadwell, Falcons vice president of operations and facilities, said work began to prepare the Flowery Branch facility long before it was known which team would move in.In the case of the Rams, who were making the cross-country flight, Treadwell said communication was especially important. The Falcons made sure the Rams knew what equipment would be available to be borrowed for the week.The locker room and meetings rooms were cleaned out for the Rams. Private offices, which won’t be used, are locked.“We’ve been meeting as a staff for several weeks just to make sure we’re buttoned up,” Treadwell said. “Obviously Cheap Kaleb McGary Jersey , we know they’re going to try to make this the Rams’ facility for the week, so we’re going to do what we can to assist and accommodate that and support them in a great week of preparation.”Treadwell said the same Southern hospitality would have been offered to the Saints — even though the mere mention of the division rivals moving into the Falcons’ facility left Atlanta coach Dan Quinn grim-faced last month.“I guess I’m most disappointed we won’t be the ones playing and practicing at our site,” Quinn said on Dec. 20.Similarly, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was certainly happy to have the Rams headed to town. She recently said she was looking forward to a game that featured “anybody other than the Saints.”“I know there’s going to be a bounty on my head for saying that,” she said in an interview with These Urban Times. “But, if it can’t be the Falcons, then hey, as long as it’s not the Saints then I am happy.”At a news conference to discuss Super Bowl preparations, Bottoms said she was just joking about the Saints.Treadwell said it is more important to represent Atlanta well in this Super Bowl than to be influenced by the Falcons’ long rivalry with the Saints.“Obviously Kaleb McGary Atlanta Falcons Jersey , we were going to be gracious hosts to whoever came and we were going to do the best we could to support their efforts in preparing for the biggest game of their lives,” Treadwell said. “At that point we have a job to do and we have to remain professional. We’re part of the host committee.“If you look at it, we want the city to look good for this game and we want our participants to have a good experience when they come here. If it were the Saints we’d have done the same things we’ve done for the Rams and treat them as best as we possibly could.” He’s not alone on this one." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - WhiteThe Falcoholican Atlanta Falcons communityLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpFanpostsFanshotsLibraryFalconsOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Library FalcFans Podcast on The FalcoholicContact The FalcoholicFalcons StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Falcons NewsYahoo Falcons Team PageYahoo Falcons ReportYahoo Falcons Depth ChartYahoo Falcons TransactionsYahoo Falcons PhotosOdds About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Dan Quinn expects Takk to have a monster year New,57commentsHe’s not alone on this one. EDTShareTweetShareShareDan Quinn expects Takk to have a monster year Photo by Will Vragovic/Getty ImagesThe third year can be a leap year for defensive linemen, and there are high hopes we’re going to see that in 2019 for Takkarist McKinley. Those hopes are shared by one Dan Quinn, perhaps the most important person to throw his faith publicly behind the defensive end.It’s Quinn, of course, who was least strongly responsible for the team’s move to trade up and get Takk in the 2017 NFL Draft. It’s DQ who has been in Takk’s corner throughout criticism of the player during his first two years, whether that criticism has been valid or not. And it’s Quinn who sat down for an interview yesterday and put his strongest endorsement yet down for Takk Calvin Ridley Jersey 2019 , in an offseason where he’s seizing the reins of the defense. Quinn’s selection of Takk for this particular honor is not shocking, but it probably tells us we should up our expectations for the gifted defensive end. There were stretches of the 2018 season where Takk looked borderline unstoppable with his strength and technique, and while those stretches weren’t consistent enough to put together the kind of mind-blowing season that earns players huge hype and Pro Bowl nods, it was enough to think he’s on the verge of putting things together. Takk has 13 sacks in two seasons, has hit opposing quarterbacks 25 times over that span, and is still just 23 years old. So let’s happily embrace Quinn’s words here and plan on Takk breaking out and delivering the double digit sack season he’s been pushing himself to deliver, and hope that 2019 is the kind of year we look back on as the start of something truly special.