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Considering Tyson Jackson's Falcons future

With Sam Baker's release, there's only one player whose combination of poor 2014 performance, contract size and uncertain 2015 role makes him an obvious candidate to be cut. That player is Tyson Jackson.

Sussing out what will happen to Jackson isn't necessarily easy, because we don't know what the coaching staff thinks of him. They're having him slim down somewhat and indicating he'll play some end and some tackle in the new scheme, but I can't imagine they watched 2014 tape on him and came away with a great feeling. T-Jax managed a handful of nice pass rushing plays and was solid against the run at times, but the Falcons were hoping for much more than that when they inked him to a five year contract in Mike Smith's last season running the team.