Atlanta has a very bright future, and that includes having to decide who to pay as their core and who they may have to take their medicine with in order to keep that core; just as the Hawks did with Golden, Carp, Breno, Sweez, Okung, Red, Clem, McDonald, Mebane, Malcolm, Bruce, Maxwell, Thurmond etc etc.
Their sub-core that they may have to let walk over the next few years probably guys like Coleman (can't pay two RBs), both veteran OGs, Hageman, Babineaux, Clayborn, one of the CBs (I doubt Collins, Trufant,Alford, Poole all get paid by the Falcons).
Ryan,Freeman, Mack, Matthews, Julio, Jarrett, Beasley, Jones, Neal aren't going anywhere. And you can keep winning with that as long as you continue to have decent drafts - I think even a Falcons fan would admit that the success rate of the past couple drafts isn't sustainable as that roster will have fewer available jobs in the years to come. We saw that here - 10,11,12 drafts were awesome, 14 only really recently showed up (Britt and hopefully PRich), having Jimmy, Lock and Clark to show for 15 is really nice though.
