00:0049ers sent another wide receiver, Christian Kirk, this time.
00:04Deal worth up to $6 million.
00:05Obviously, Mike Evans earlier in the offseason, so adding some guys, veterans.
00:11Christian Kirk's all right when he's healthy.
00:13Yeah, I mean, when he's healthy, he's an effective player, man.
00:15But I think, you know, the thing what they're trying to do down there,
00:17they've got to get some bodies because they're going to lose Brent and I.
00:20Did Juwan Jennings go?
00:22Did he leave?
00:23I can't remember if he was out or not.
00:24Oh, no.
00:25He's still there?
00:26Okay.
00:26I like him.
00:27Okay, yeah.
00:28He plays well.
00:29Other than the fact that he's, from what other players around the league,
00:33describe him as a female dog.
00:35I've never met him, so I guess that's why I like him.
00:37Other players around the league describe him as a female dog.
00:40Yeah, let me take it.
00:41He does some grimy stuff.
00:42Yeah, man.
00:43But he's a semi-productive player.
00:44Yeah, but I think you're going to get Mike.
00:47Park Pearsall, you never know if he's going to be healthy or not.
00:50I mean, so, yeah, you've got to get some bodies in there.
00:53Deal with $6 million.
00:54That looks like they're going to put him somewhere in the slot area
00:56and allow him to do his work.
00:57But when he's healthy, Chris Kirk is productive.
01:01Yeah.
01:01So, there it is right there.
01:02There it is right there.
01:04Darius Slay is retiring after 13 years.
01:06Yeah, man.
01:07Good for him.
01:07Good for him.
01:08I know that he went over to Pittsburgh.
01:09This was never a good fit.
01:11Never a good fit.
01:11I mean, obviously, he was a great – he was a really good player with Detroit.
01:15Went over to Philly and really, you know, excelled.
01:19Got them a Super Bowl title and everything.
01:21And now it's just like, time to hang it up.
01:23Good for him.
01:23All right.
01:23Good for him.
01:24So, here's – let's hear from – these are all fine headlines.
01:27But let's get to – on the Rich Eisen show yesterday, we were talking about this.
01:31I don't know when.
01:32Was it yesterday?
01:33Was it Friday?
01:34I don't know.
01:35But we had a very similar conversation to this about Penix and Tua
01:39and what the off-season, into training camp and all that's going to look like.
01:44And why Tua has a real leg up.
01:47Bottom line is, if you're going to be competing between veterans
01:52and guys who have hardly done it before,
01:54and it really is going to be about what it looks like pre-snap, post-snap,
02:00in the meeting rooms and everything like that,
02:02it's going to be a big effort for the young kid to beat out a vet.
02:06Yeah.
02:07No doubt about it.
02:08I mean –
02:08Flat out.
02:09It's a flat-out statement.
02:11And, of course, we mentioned, I mean, Tua's played way more ball.
02:14Tua's led team to play off.
02:15Tua's led this league in passing and all these other things.
02:18So, he's a capable quarterback.
02:19I mean, I know you get the whole concussions and all those different things,
02:22but when Tua's protected and on, he is – he can put it where you –
02:26he can put it there.
02:27Yeah.
02:28He can put it there.
02:28It takes me back to – I think it was Friday we had the conversation of
02:32Kyler signed by Minnesota.
02:34So much of the reaction is, oh, terrible news for J.J. McCarthy.
02:37Kyler's going to be the guy.
02:38Right.
02:39And that just wasn't the reaction with the Tua Penix stuff.
02:43Right.
02:43But I think it's a similar thing.
02:45Like, the gap isn't the same between the guys,
02:47but just because of the situation that Penix is in with the injuries –
02:52With the injury.
02:53And the stuff that he struggles with, accuracy-wise,
02:57and the stuff that Tua's good at,
02:59and the fact that he's going to be healthy coming into the offseason,
03:02it's just – like, it's going to be really hard for Penix to beat him out.
03:06Yes.
03:07But, I mean –
03:07Like, I know it's not the same thing because J.J. and Penix and all that,
03:11but, like, it's the same thing for me in terms of,
03:14well, that guy's probably going to be the starter.
03:15But I think that when people made that assumption with the Kyler Murray, J.J.,
03:20we saw how bad – and it was more publicized how bad J.J. was
03:24than it was about the Michael Penix thing.
03:26All they said about Michael Penix was the injury part about it.
03:28Sure.
03:28You know, and that's a big deal with it also because, again,
03:31you're rehabbing while they're out there doing things.
03:34Now, you'll be able to do some things,
03:35but you won't be able to do all the things that, you know,
03:38Tua gets to do with the first team offense and things like that.
03:41And I do believe that it's going to be a competition,
03:43but I think that Tua – and that's another thing I said.
03:46I said, how do we – I said, are we 100% sure Tua's not going to win
03:49in this quarterback conference?
03:50I said, no, I'm not 100% sure.
03:52I would be 100% sure if they brought another quarterback in,
03:55but because they brought Tua in, they brought Tua in, in my opinion,
03:58and I'm getting there more and more day by day.
04:00They brought Tua in to be the starter.
04:02Yeah.
04:03Yeah.
04:03I think so, too.
04:04I mean, and I'm getting – day by day,
04:06and it's becoming more and more clear to me.
04:09Me, too.
04:09That they brought Tua in here to be the starting quarterback this year.
04:12Yeah, because you could have brought in other veteran quarters.
04:15Now, it's the cheapest option.
04:17Yes.
04:17But the only way – again, we've said this before.
04:20The only way Tua was coming here is if you at least told him –
04:23I'm not going to lie to him.
04:24Yeah.
04:24At least told him he's coming here with an opportunity to compete
04:26to be the starter.
04:27Yeah.
04:28Tua wants to be a starter in the NFL.
04:29Yes.
04:29Tua does not want to back up Michael.
04:31He doesn't view himself as a backup.
04:32Tua does not want to, quote, unquote, push Michael.
04:34He doesn't want to back up anybody.
04:36No.
04:36He doesn't want to mentor anybody.
04:37I'm sure he'll be a good teammate, but that's a difference.
04:39Yes.
04:39He's not in that part of his career.
04:41He's three years older than Michael Penix.
04:43Yes.
04:43They're about the same age.
04:45Yes.
04:45Like, 28 and 25, Michael will be 26 by the time the season starts.
04:48Right.
04:48Like, they're pretty similar in terms of their ages.
04:51And Tua's trying to get that bread.
04:52Yeah, man.
04:53He's trying to get back to that money.
04:54Like, I don't know.
04:55And maybe it was just me, like, wanting Penix to be the starter.
04:59And I still do want Penix to be the starter.
05:01In order for him to do it, he's going to have to beat out Tua in the lead up to
05:05the season.
05:05I just think it's going to be really hard to do that, given what training camp is.
05:09They're not going to hit him.
05:13There's no—Tua's going to stand in the pocket and deliver the ball accurately.
05:16He's going to look brilliant pre-snap, because he is.
05:19He's going to put the ball where it's supposed to go.
05:20Because he does.
05:21Like, everyone's going to love how it looks, and his teammates are going to rave about him,
05:24and he's a good teammate.
05:25That's the first thing I said out of my mouth.
05:27And that's all great.
05:29But if you're trying to compete against that, how do you beat it?
05:31You've got to look better.
05:33Michael can't look as good as Tua.
05:35Michael's got to look better than Tua.
05:37Or Tua's got to fall off in what he does.
05:39And still, at one point in his career, Tua was a high-level starter.
05:46Tua was one of the best quarterbacks in ball.
05:49When you look at the—just look at the numbers and watch him throw the football.
05:53And I don't even—I'm not sitting here trying to say that, like, Tua's going to be amazing week one.
05:58I'm not going to say that at all.
05:59I'm just saying between now and week one, I think Tua has the skill set and the health advantage over
06:04Pennix right now
06:05to look better leading into it.
06:08I agree.
06:09I just—
06:09I agree.
06:10I agree.
06:10If preseason was different and—I don't know.
06:14If the lead-up to it was different, kind of how maybe it used to be, maybe.
06:17But the way that training camp goes now—and they're not going to play in preseason.
06:22Why would they?
06:23I haven't ever played in preseason.
06:23Maybe they will.
06:24Maybe.
06:24If it's like a real competition.
06:25But I don't know.
06:26Who knows?
06:26We'll see.
06:27We don't know how they are going to handle that.
06:28This regime is brand new.
06:31It's just that's—he's very difficult to beat in a competition.
06:34Yeah, but no, but I've just been—I mean, we've been mentioning this.
06:37I'm like, like, Tua—okay, you're coming in here to compete with Michael.
06:42But it's more Michael's trying to compete with you because I think Tua's not coming here unless you—
06:47I don't want to say gave him assurances, but gave him a great assurance that it's his job to lose.
06:52Well, at the very least, if I'm Michael Pennix, I'm like, oh, this guy had options.
06:57Yes.
06:58Anybody would have signed Tua for a million and a half bucks?
07:00Yep.
07:01He came here because he thought this was the right for the pick and job.
07:04Exactly.
07:05Like, he came here because he thought, I'm beatable.
07:08That my job is takeable.
07:10Like, and, you know, you can take it like that if you want, but that's what he did.
07:14But that's what it is.
07:15Tua picked the Falcons because he thought he could win this job.
07:18No doubt about it.
07:20There's no doubt that he took this job because of that.
07:23Now, you could also say in another sense what other jobs was there for him to get.
07:28Yeah, that's true.
07:29I mean, you could always say that part about it, but no, Tua came here—
07:31I mean, he could have gone to the Jets.
07:34Tua came here to be the starting quarterback.
07:36He could have tried to talk the Vikings into it, I guess.
07:38And then looked at it from a standpoint is, just like Daniel Jones, who went to—
07:42Just like when Daniel Jones went to Indianapolis, he knew that he was going to beat out him.
07:46Oh, yeah.
07:47He knew.
07:47No, I could beat that guy.
07:48Yeah, I could beat this guy.
07:48Yeah, I've seen him play.
07:50I'm not more athletic than him, but I've seen him play.
07:51Yeah, he has every—like, Michael has way more tools than Tua as far as arm strength
07:58and all those different things, but he can't put it like Tua does.
08:01Now, he can put it as a place where Tua can't put it.
08:02Oh, definitely.
08:03Yeah, you know what I mean?
08:03Like, I'm not knocking nine because nine, I think nine has the goods.
08:08I do, too.
08:09I think nine got the goods.
08:10I do, too.
08:10I just think he's going to be competing against a guy in a style of competition that I don't
08:17know how many people could beat Tua in a competition like that.
08:19But the thing about it is, Mike wanted his job, right?
08:21Yeah, so you better beat him.
08:22So you better beat him.
08:22Yeah, and that's the other thing, too.
08:24Like, I like that.
08:25I think Michael's capable.
08:27I do, too.
08:27Yeah.
08:28But if you can't, then, you know, then Tua should start anyway, then, if Michael can't
08:33beat him in a competition.
08:34Yeah.
08:35You've got to be able to beat him in a competition to—yeah, I don't know.
08:38Think more about it.
08:39We've got plenty of time.
08:40Billy Horschel will join us next from the Atlanta Drive.
08:43They've got a playoff matchup tonight against the L.A. Golf Club.
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