With the exit of DeAngelo Hall, Warrick Dunn, Alge Crumpler, and Mike Vick, who’s our star player now.

If you are a Falcons fan, you sitting in your house with your season ticket renewal forms thinking to yourself what in the hell should I do. Of course you love your team, but after a season like the 2007 season, how much can you really take.  Since Dimitroff has arrived, he’s found a way to get rid of any of Mike Vick’s friends that included Dunn, Crumpler and fellow VT player D. Hall.  It’s only a matter of time before they release Vick.  But who’s that player do we have that gets us excited again?  Who’s gonna help get the Dome back rockin like it was during the 2002 - 2006 seasons?  Is it Michael Turner?  Don’t know about that, I wasn’t jumping up and down about a back up running back being brought in for that amount of money.  Or is it someone in the draft?  It won’t be McFadden, hello, we just paid a boat load of cash to Turner.  Matt Ryan?  May be a good QB, but no one to get excited about. 

Who’s out there to take over that role?  The one who will help the Falcons get talked about again.  I don’t think that person is on the team now, but where is he?  Mr. Blank, you’ve cleaned house, now its time to redecorate.

Falcons to trade D. Hall for Raiders’ second-round pick in ‘08 draft

The Atlanta Falcons have reached an agreement in principle with the Oakland Raiders to trade cornerback DeAngelo Hall for the Raiders’ second-round pick in the 2008 draft, pending the Raiders finalizing a contract with Hall, according to a source close to the Falcons.

Hall is close to agreeing to a contract with the Raiders that will pay him just below what Asante Samuel signed with the Eagles, according to the source. Samuel signed a six-year deal worth a reported $57 million, with $20 million guaranteed.

Hall is a former first-rounder taken with the eighth pick in the 2004 draft.

Chris Mortensen covers the NFL for ESPN