00:00I do want to talk to you about Tua in Atlanta.
00:03I think this is a bit of a...
00:06I'll tell you the one element of this I adore, right?
00:09Is that they do have two lefties.
00:11I love that.
00:12I just...
00:13The continuity of it really works for me, okay?
00:16I like the idea that it throws off receivers,
00:19you know, a lefty and then a righty.
00:20So I like that they found that continuity.
00:24My...
00:25Here's what I'm interested in for you.
00:27I think Tua right now is the favorite to be the week one starter
00:31because I just don't know how things are going to look for Penix health-wise.
00:35You are someone who's not very high on Mike McDaniel, right?
00:38You can use...
00:39You know, even just play caller McDaniel,
00:42you're not as in love with, right, as everybody else is.
00:47Stefanski is a guy who...
00:50When he has a guy he trusts,
00:52and that doesn't happen all the time for Stefanski,
00:55we've seen good things happen.
00:58It's March.
00:59Give me some grace, but I will admit, Joe,
01:02as I've thought a little bit more about this Tua-Stefanski,
01:06you know, combination here,
01:08I'm not saying I'm, hey, come get my Super Bowl winner.
01:12I think there could be some success for this combination.
01:17It's possible, Kevin.
01:19And I think that if you're making the comparison,
01:22and tell me if I'm wrong,
01:24between Stefanski and O'Connell,
01:27where we think they're great offensive minds, right,
01:31and they could elevate and get the most out of the quarterbacks,
01:34the difference with O'Connell
01:36is that I think he actually coaches up the young quarterbacks
01:40and makes them better, okay?
01:42Where he coached up Darnold to the ability
01:45to what we see as a Super Bowl champion in two years, right?
01:49I give a lot of credit to,
01:51much like Sean McVay,
01:53taking a little bit, you know,
01:54with the quarterbacks that he's worked with
01:56and elevating them to the next level.
01:59Stefanski likes the veterans.
02:00He likes, he doesn't like to coach up the young ones.
02:04He likes to coach up, you know,
02:06or get the most out of the vet.
02:07Flacco and all these other garbage pedestrian backups
02:11that we've seen that all of a sudden
02:13throw for 300 and 400 plus yards.
02:15And when he has the Ferrari like Deshaun Watson,
02:18and I'm not saying Deshaun Watson is 50% of that problem,
02:23but I also believe 50% of the problem too
02:26was that Stefanski all of a sudden got conservative.
02:30We didn't see the same type of play calls
02:32with Deshaun Watson at that year
02:35that we saw with Joe Flacco.
02:37So if it was me, I, if I'm Arthur Blank
02:41and I'm that organization and I have such young weapons,
02:45I brought in Kevin Stefanski
02:47to get the most out of Michael Penix,
02:49not to get the most out of Tua.
02:51We did this experiment with Kirk Cousins
02:54and the previous two coaches,
02:56Arthur Smith and Raheem Morris,
02:58and where did it get us?
03:02I hear what you're saying.
03:04I just think for Atlanta,
03:05what this team struggles with, Joe,
03:09unlike the Jets,
03:10they think they have so much of what's needed
03:15already in the building.
03:18And that's why they're hoping
03:20they can get a plug and play coach
03:21and a plug and play quarterback, right?
03:23And they hope that it can work out.
03:26And, you know, here's another thing
03:28that I kind of sat with a little bit
03:29in terms of who two was going to be surrounded by.
03:34Tyreek Hill is special.
03:36And I don't want to compare anybody here to Tyreek.
03:40But Tyreek started to tail off a little bit,
03:43the relationship, right?
03:45Jalen Waddell could not be relied on
03:47to always be out there.
03:49Devon A. Chan is an incredible talent,
03:52but he also wasn't, like,
03:53the healthiest guy in the world.
03:56That trio of B. John,
03:59Drake London, and Kyle Pitts
04:01is pretty darn good, Joe.
04:04I mean, it is.
04:05And they've got a pretty good offensive line,
04:07usually, in Atlanta.
04:08I just think...
04:11I am not sure that Tua
04:14is going to a worse situation
04:16than the one he was just in this past season.
04:20And I think that's key.
04:22I think it's a pretty...
04:23Like, it's not the best situation
04:25Tua's ever been in,
04:26but what we also have to acknowledge,
04:28even if it fell flat,
04:30Tua in great situations
04:33gave you pretty good regular season results.
04:36Couldn't beat great teams, beat bad teams.
04:38Like, Joe, is it possible
04:40that the Tua-Stefanski combo
04:42could go 5-1 in NFC South play
04:46if these other teams don't get better?
04:48Kevin, it's possible.
04:49Look at how that defense played
04:51at the end of the regular season.
04:53Right.
04:53Now, they lose Pierce,
04:56which, obviously,
04:56that off-the-field situation.
04:58But when you just look at it
05:00and you see how they were opportunistic
05:02with Watts in the back end
05:04and just knowing what they were able to do,
05:06if the defense comes to play,
05:08of course they could be
05:09a 10 or an 11-win football team.
05:11So, let's go ahead and do it.
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