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Speed should make Falcons fun to watch

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

ATLANTA -- It was a catch-phrase of the 1970s, yet when the Atlanta Falcons moved into the glitzy new Georgia Dome in '92 and let loose all of their lightning-quick run-and-shoot wide receivers on a fast AstroTurf surface, the team certainly did so with a "speed kills" philosophy in mind. Being fast definitely meant big figures but, unfortunately, all those gaudy statistics that the Falcons posted during the seasons in which they operated from the four-wide receiver formation didn't translate i ...

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