Could the Atlanta Falcons’ loss become the Howard Hustlin’ Tigers’ gain?
If Howard coach John Starr has anything to say in the matter, it should.
After watching the Falcons inexplicably fail to so much as attempt to field a late onside kick against Dallas on Sunday, a stunning mental blunder that allowed the Cowboys to soon boot a game-winning field goal as the game clock struck zero, Starr immediately turned his attention to Monday’s practice.
“Yes, we have special teams work every day,” he said on Monday morning. “Yes, we’ll cover that. We don’t want that to happen to us.”
A mile or so away at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, second-year Mocs coach Rusty Wright was thinking the same thing.