Sports Frog

To follow up on MB's follow up post on Petrino, it was interesting to hear just how publicly upset the Falcons were at not just the way Petrino left, but seemingly the entire Bobby Petrino 'era' in Atlanta.

Here's a sampling of quotes played on NFL Total Access last night.

Arthur Blank:

"You're asking me if I feel used at the moment. I feel abused at the moment."

Joey Harrington:

"To have him talk [at the Arkansas press conference] about family, to have him talk about team, to have him talk about commitment, and then to come in and have a form letter sitting on the stool at your locker after seeing him do the... his hog... you know, his pig suey, with the Arkansas faithful... that's not how a man acts. That's how a coward acts."

Arthur Blank, on a plaque Petrino put up in the team room outlining their 4 team goals:

"... And the fourth one is 'Finish'. I don't think leaving - quitting - after 13 games is equal to the word finish."

Warrick Dunn:

"He's definitely a liar... He had guys thinking 'I couldn't play football anymore', and thinking 'I couldn't run'. And it wasn't because I wasn't trying, it was because he was setting us up to fail. And when you look back on it, he wasn't in it."

And even the NFL Network's Spiro Agnew stepped out of his journalistic suit on Wednesday night to add his own thoughts:

"As many times as you see that Petrino press conference in Fayetteville, it just numbs your senses as to how badly he handled this situation."

So it's not like anyone is sad to see him go, they just seem more upset he ever came.

Where's D'Angelo Hall? He certainly has got something to say, doesn't he? Maybe he just figures he already said it back in October.

UPDATE: Found Hall's comments, though not as damning as Dunn's or Joey's. Hall saved some of his best comments for his 6+ minute phone call with Total Access the day before.