Falcons cornerback Robert Alford and kicker Matt Bryant
missed practice for the third straight day and have been ruled for Sunday's game
at Washington.Coach Dan Quinn said rookie Isaiah Oliver will take Alford's spot.
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Colorado, makes his second career start.Alford, a starter in 67 of 79 career
games, is out with an ankle injury and will miss his first game since 2015. He
was hurt in a win over the New York Giants 11 days ago but did not come
out.Giorgio Tavecchio takes Bryant's place for the second straight game. With
Bryant hobbled by a sore hamstring since kicking a 57-yard field goal against
Tampa Bay, Tavecchio kicked three field goals against New York. He sealed the
outcome with a 56-yarder in the closing minutes.The 43-year-old Bryant is the
Atlanta's franchise scoring leader. Before this season he had not missed a game
since 2009.The Falcons (3-4) hope that receiver Mohammed Sanu will be active
against the Redskins (5-2). He has been limited in practice two days this week
and did not participate Thursday because of a hip injury.Quinn said Oliver has a
better understanding of his role since misaligning in zone coverage and allowing
A.J. Green to score a late touchdown in Cincinnati's Week 4 win over Atlanta.The
Falcons, who rank third worst in scoring defense and yards allowed per game,
will be without their best linebacker, Deion Jones, for at least another two
more weeks. Jones has been sidelined with a foot injury since the season-opening
loss at Philadelphia.Strong safety Keanu Neal was lost for the season in the
opener and free safety Ricardo Allen was lost for the year in Week 3.o ATLANTA
(AP) — The Atlanta Falcons have cleared out of their practice facility and given
the keys to the Los Angeles Rams for the week.The Falcons are determined to be
good hosts to the Rams, who are using the facility as their practice site for
Sunday's Super Bowl 53. The Falcons insist they'd have been just as hospitable
if it were their bitter rival New Orleans Saints using their locker
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meeting rooms and practice field for the week.As part of Atlanta's winning bid
for this Super Bowl, the Falcons' facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia, north of
Atlanta, is home to the Rams, who beat the Saints for the NFC championship. The
AFC champion New England Patriots are practicing at Georgia Tech's facility this
week. Each practice site has an indoor facility, which will be important with
possible winter weather arriving on Tuesday.The obvious dream of Falcons owner
Arthur Blank was to have his team play in Atlanta's Super Bowl in the second
year of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Instead, the Patriots — who beat the Falcons in
Super Bowl 51 — are back, while the Rams look to repeat their win in the last
Atlanta Super Bowl in 2000, when they represented St. Louis.Spencer
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facilities, said work began to prepare the Flowery Branch facility long before
it was known which team would move in.In the case of the Rams, who were making
the cross-country flight, Treadwell said communication was especially important.
The Falcons made sure the Rams knew what equipment would be available to be
borrowed for the week.The locker room and meetings rooms were cleaned out for
the Rams. Private offices, which won't be used, are locked."We've been meeting
as a staff for several weeks just to make sure we're buttoned up," Treadwell
said. "Obviously, we know they're going to try to make this the Rams' facility
for the week, so we're going to do what we can to assist and accommodate that
and support them in a great week of preparation."Treadwell said the same
Southern hospitality would have been offered to the Saints — even though the
mere mention of the division rivals moving into the Falcons' facility left
Atlanta coach Dan Quinn grim-faced last month."I guess I'm most disappointed we
won't be the ones playing and practicing at our site," Quinn said on Dec.
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certainly happy to have the Rams headed to town. She recently said she was
looking forward to a game that featured "anybody other than the Saints.""I know
there's going to be a bounty on my head for saying that," she said in an
interview with These Urban Times. "But, if it can't be the Falcons, then hey, as
long as it's not the Saints then I am happy."At a news conference to discuss
Super Bowl preparations, Bottoms said she was just joking about the
Saints.Treadwell said it is more important to represent Atlanta well in this
Super Bowl than to be influenced by the Falcons' long rivalry with the
Saints."Obviously, we were going to be gracious hosts to whoever came and we
were going to do the best we could to support their efforts in preparing for the
biggest game of their lives," Treadwell said. "At that point we have a job to do
and we have to remain professional. We're part of the host committee."If you
look at it, we want the city to look good for this game and we want our
participants to have a good experience when they come here. If it were the
Saints we'd have done the same things we've done for the Rams and treat them as
best as we possibly could."