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Falcons admit kicking mistake

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, September 22, 2006

It is the weakness of a lot of NFL teams: They rarely acknowledge a mistake. That's why the Atlanta Falcons deserve credit this week, sort of, for folding their cards and conceding that the experiment to allow second-year veteran Michael Koenen to handle all three kicking chores this season was an abysmal failure. Actually, the Atlanta brass never really said that it botched the place-kicking component of the game with the inexperienced Koenen, but actions speak louder than words. And when ...

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