The Falcons just released a pretty slick short film on draft day in the team’s war room, and it’s worth watching both because it’s well put together and interesting, and because it shows us more behind-the-scenes facets of the team’s big decision to pick Kyle Pitts at #4.
First of all, head coach Arthur Smith apparently saw Trey Lance going to San Francisco well before the draft, as a laughing general manager Terry Fontenot claps him on the shoulder and says “you called it a month ago.” The mood in the room is not the mood you’d expect from a team devastated that they missed out on Lance, though obviously it’s possible to read further into that than we reasonably can from a short clip.