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p with the Atlanta Falcons Marcus Green Atlanta Falcons Jersey , the team said late Wednesday after reaching an agreement to renegotiate the star receiver’s contract next year.General manager Thomas Dimitroff announced the compromise about 16 hours ahead of Thursday’s 4 p.m. reporting deadline, removing a major distraction hanging over a team that is again expected to be one of the top contenders in the NFC.”We have had continued dialogue all offseason with Julio and his representation,” Dimitroff said. ”We have come to an agreement with Julio, and we will readdress everything in 2019. I appreciate everyone’s hard work and communication on this.”The Falcons had informed Jones several weeks ago that they wouldn’t be able to renegotiate his current $71.5 million package, which still has three years remaining and included $47 million in guaranteed money.Jones, who makes an average of $14.25 million a year, was unhappy with his deal after a flurry of new contracts during the offseason dropped Jones down the list of the NFL’s highest-paid receivers.Tampa Bay’s Mike Evans , Cleveland’s Jarvis Landry and Kansas City’s Sammy Watkins are among those now making more per year than Jones, a two-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowler who caught 88 passes for 1,444 yards last season.Jones skipped offseason workouts at the team’s training facility as well as a mandatory minicamp to demonstrate his unhappiness. His next option was to hold out during training camp 2019 Marcus Green Jersey , which could have led to fines of $40,000 per day.Neither side wanted to go down a path that could’ve damaged what has otherwise been a good relationship. So, it looks as though Jones will get a new deal in 2019 – not as soon as he would’ve liked, but a year earlier than the Falcons would normally agree to renegotiate a long-term contract.Atlanta is eager to pair Jones with another former Alabama receiver, Calvin Ridley, who was this year’s first-round pick. The team hopes that Ridley, as he develops, can help to lure coverages away from Jones, who is often blanketed by two or three defenders.The Falcons said salary cap limitations prevented them from discussing a new deal with Jones in 2018 . The team already agreed to a five-year, $150 million extension with quarterback Matt Ryan Marcus Green Atlanta Falcons Jersey , the most lucrative deal in NFL history, and is now focused on working out new contracts for defensive tackle Grady Jarrett, offensive guard Jake Matthews and safety Ricardo Allen.”This adjustment does not impede us from working on other extensions with other key members of our football team,” Dimitroff said. ”We will continue to work on those contracts going forward.”Jones hasn’t talked with the Atlanta media in months, keeping a low profile during the contract brouhaha. In one of his rare public appearances, he told TMZ that he has a good relationship with the franchise that pulled off a blockbuster trade with Cleveland to make him a first-round pick in 2011.”I’m just working on getting myself better,” he said. ”There’s no bad blood between me and the team or anything like that.”Jones hasn’t been totally estranged from his teammates during the offseason. This month, he took part in Ryan’s private passing camp in California along with about a dozen of his teammates.All throughout the contract talks, Jones remained in the good graces of coach Dan Quinn.”Sometimes football and business intersect,” Quinn said after Jones skipped the three-day minicamp. ”That’s OK and that happens a lot.”— Bobby Petrino went from his first stint as head coach at Louisville to a job as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. Suffice to say his career won’t have the same upward trajectory now that his second stint at Louisville has ended.Louisville fired Petrino this morning after an ugly loss to Syracuse on Friday night dropped the Cardinals to 2-8 on the season.It’s easy to see this being the end for Petrino as a head coach at any level Youth Marcus Green Jersey , given the bridges he’s burned along the way. In addition to his sudden departure from the Falcons, in which he quit to take the Arkansas coaching job without so much as holding a team meeting to tell his players, Petrino has been criticized for the way he’s conducted himself in other stops. He lost the Arkansas job after crashing his motorcycle with his mistress on the back, in an incident that led to an investigation and findings of impropriety. He also drew criticism for secretly trying to leave Louisville for Auburn during his first stint at Louisville.Petrino spent three years as an assistant with the Jaguars in addition to his year in Atlanta and his many years as a college coach, and he may have some job offers, although more likely as an assistant than as a head coach. He also won’t need to work: Under the terms of Petrino’s contract, Louisville is required to pay him more than $14 million to buy him out.