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Falcons Sign GM Thomas Dimitroff To Three-Year Extension Amid Team's Resurgence

The Falcons yesterday signed GM Thomas Dimitroff to a three-year contract extension through '19 (Falcons). The AP's George Henry noted financial terms were not disclosed. The Falcons "never had consecutive winning records before Dimitroff joined the team" in '08, but they were "above .500 in his first five seasons and made the playoffs four times" (AP, 11/7). In Atlanta, Jeff Schultz notes if fans were "going to blame" Dimitroff for "past personnel mistakes that led to the team’s decline, it wouldn’t seem right to not give him some credit for the obvious improvements over the past two years." Dimitroff took a "brunt of the criticism when the team went 10-22 and missed the playoffs" over the '13 and '14 seasons, and he "deserved the hits." But what Dimitroff accomplished after taking over in '08 "surpassed anything any Falcons’ general manager had accomplished in history." As much as critics "don’t want to give Dimitroff credit for the improvement, it short-changes his abilities as a personnel man and gives him no credit for what he accomplished when he first took over the organization." Critics also give him "no credit for the input he is providing now" (AJC.com, 11/7). 

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