On Friday afternoon, the Falcons agreed to an agreement with Arthur Smith to become the next coach in Atlanta. Smith has spent the past two seasons overseeing one of the NFL’s best offensive units as the offensive coordinator or the Tennessee Titans.
Under Smith in the 2020 season, Tennessee ranked 4th (25.1) in points per game (30.7) in the 2020 season, after 2019 when his unit ranked 10th (25.1) in this category.
The Titans were second in the hasty attack average (168.1) yards per game. Smith’s work to establish a rash attack that highlights Derrick Henry did not go unnoticed. Henry ranks first in running yards with 2,027. The Titans also made it to the playoffs in the two seasons that Smith has been calling plays in attack.
Starting his coaching career as a graduate assistant in North Carolina in 2006, Smith’s rise to coaching career came quickly. His first job in the NFL came with the Washington Football Team as a defensive quality assistant before joining the Titans in 2012 as an offensive quality control coach and worked as an offensive line coach and tight end assistant coach (2013), assistant coach of tight end (2014-2015), coach of tight ends (2016-2018) before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 2019.
Here’s a look at how people reacted on social media about the Falcons’ deal with Smith to be the head coach on Friday afternoon: