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Essentially yes. Rich was the GM before dimitroff and blank had him go to a different role to focus on the business side of things instead of football side of things. Rich was a key figure in getting the new stadium built and that has forever put him in blanks good graces. Fans for a long time have suspected that rich used the good grace from that to slowly move back into the football side of things since he’s been mentioned around so many football decisions the last few years especially after dimitroff got fired. That was pretty much confirmed by a reporter in Atlanta recently.
Rich in practice is the real GM of the falcons despite that not being his title anymore for a decade now. It was telling that when smith was fired it was blank and rich that did the media pressure not blank and the actual GM Fontenot
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