Lofa Tatupu was nearing retirement before the Falcons called and offered him a job. Tatupu was a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker for the Seahawks, but when the team released him last year, he couldn't find a job and began filling out retirement paperwork. "I'm excited about the whole process and just being back playing ball again," Tatupu said. "You've got to knock a little rust off, but for the most part it's second nature, especially as a middle linebacker. You're supposed to know what everybody is doing. You're supposed to be the field general. From that standpoint, I really wasn't taken aback by it. I just come in and do what I do." Tatupu signed a two-year, $3.6 million deal with the Falcons in March.