Falcons running back Michael Turner is fine with carrying the ball fewer times in 2010. "That doesn't bother me," Turner said. "I just want to be ready when my number is called. Like I said last year, nobody can predict how many times I'll be able to touch it this year. We just have to take it game by game." Turner struggled with injuries last season after carrying the ball 370 times in 2008.

Thom Abraham of WNSR in Nashville interviewed former Falcons coach Jerry Glanville, who defended the decision to trade Brett Favre in blunt terms. "I had to get him out of Atlanta. I could not sober him up," Glanville said. "I sent him to a city where at 9:00 at night the only thing that's open is Chili Joes. You can get it two ways, with or without onions. And that's what made Brett Favre make a comeback was going to a town that closed down. If I would have traded him to New York, nobody to this day would have known who Brett Favre ever was." Favre has been candid regarding his issues with alcohol and painkillers, which he eventually beat several years ago.

The Lions reportedly acquired cornerback Chris Houston from the Falcons on Sunday in exchange for a sixth-round pick and the swapping of fifth-rounders. Atlanta recently signed Dunta Robinson to a six-year, $57 million deal, making Houston expendable.

The Falcons were successful in their courting of free-agent cornerback Dunta Robinson. Robinson has agreed to a six-year deal with Robinson, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, but the financial terms of the deal aren't yet known.