"New Falcons head coach Kevin Stefanski was on staff in Minnesota for 13 years before he got an opportunity to call plays in the NFL for the first time as the team's interim offensive coordinator. After only a year in the full-time role, he was hired to serve as the head coach of the Browns, with whom he would assume primary play-calling duties. In parts of each of the last two years, though, Cleveland has seen Stefanski cede play-calling duties to his coordinators."
"For this new chapter in Atlanta, according to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Stefanski has opted to start the season with his coordinator calling plays. Lucky for him, the offensive coordinator to whom he is ceding play-calling duties to is Tommy Rees, who has a bit of experience calling plays from when he was the offensive coordinator Stefanski ceded play-calling duties to last year in Cleveland."
"Rees' history as a play-caller in the NFL came only in the second half of last year. Before that, his only play-calling experience came with collegiate entities, from his time at Notre Dame and Alabama. After his career as an undrafted NFL quarterback came to a fairly swift end, Rees turned to coaching as a graduate assistant at Northwestern. He made his NFL coaching debut the next year as an offensive assistant for the Chargers before returning to his alma mater."
Kevin Stefanski will start the Falcons season with offensive coordinator Tommy Rees calling plays. Stefanski spent 13 years on the Minnesota staff before calling plays as an interim offensive coordinator and later became the Browns head coach, where he assumed primary play-calling duties but sometimes ceded them. Tommy Rees gained NFL play-calling experience in the second half of last season and previously called plays at Notre Dame and Alabama. Rees transitioned to coaching after a brief undrafted quarterback career, working at Northwestern, with the Chargers, and then at Notre Dame before joining Cleveland and being promoted to offensive coordinator.
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