The Falcons cut Grady Jackson yesterday. He had the highest number of tackles among Falcons defensive linemen with 21. To put that in perspective, Jovan Haye is leading defensive Tampa Bay defensive linemen with 32. When I first heard about this, I assumed Jackson shot his mouth off or took up dogfighting or whatever else they do in Atlanta to get themselves in trouble.

"It had nothing to do with anything but football," the coach said. "It was just the way we wanted to go. We felt like for our best opportunity to win games, the next nine games that we played, this was the right move to make and that's really all there is to it."

Apparently the new philosophy in Atlanta is to allow the opposing offense to run all over them and score really fast so they can have their own offense on the field longer. Which I totally support, by the way.

You know who doesn't support it? DeAngelo Hall.

"We've got so many players that ain't made a play around here," Hall said. "It don't make no sense. We gave a lot of people jobs. Now, to sit around here and single Grady out and say he's the reason why [the team is losing] ... that's just ludicrous. If they've got something better and more concrete to go off of, I'd love to hear it. But I'm not buying that one."

As a Bucs fan, decisions like this make me do that halfway fist-pump thing people do when something makes them moderately happy. But it's got to be killing Falcons fans. What is it going to take for Arthur Blank to finally just shoot Rich McKay into the sun? He's still got a lot of contacts at Home Depot, so it's something he could definitely make happen. I saw a documentary once where this one guy tied another guy to a rocket, pointed it at the sun, lit the fuse, and off he went -- poof -- right into the sun. Actually, I think it was a cat and a mouse instead of two guys. And it was more of a cartoon than a documentary. But it looked really easy.