Henning was given one last chance to fix things. The 1986 Falcons started 4-0. (David Archer, now the team's radio analyst, was the quarterback until the Bears separated his shoulder.) They won two of their final 10 games. They finished 7-8-1. Even Henning couldn't talk his way out of that. After a protracted search, the Smiths announced that Henning's replacement would be his defensive coordinator, who'd already done one failed stint as Falcons head coach. Marion Campbell's second term lasted not quite three years.
As much as we might think something is a done deal, we live in Atlanta. It was one of our teams _ heck, it was Dan Quinn's team _ that made 28-3 the most famous partial score ever. Of all people, we should know never to say never.
