Getty Former Atlanta Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino ranked. No 2 on list of worst coaching hires. The Atlanta Falcons have mostly been mired in mediocrity the last 25 years with flashes of greatness and periods of ineptitude. While they haven’t exactly had a rotating carousel of head coaches, they’ve hardly had the stability of the Pittsburgh Steelers either (no one has). The Falcons began the century with Dan Reeves as head coach. His major success was getting stomped in the Super Bowl in