00:00And we could have, who knows, Michael Panikis get hot,
00:03and Georgia's got huge games left.
00:06Alabama, Florida, Ole Miss.
00:07I mean, the Georgia schedule is going to be unbelievable.
00:09It could be a fall that, unlike any other.
00:12We talked about that.
00:13And the Hawks are going to be good.
00:15Hawks, been spending a lot of time looking at the Hawks
00:18and obviously talking to Coach Quinn and the pieces coming back
00:23and the two first-round picks.
00:25It could be an unbelievable fall.
00:27Listen, the Falcons' conversation, though,
00:29and Michael Panikis, and, you know, I'm not going to carry on
00:34and I'm not losing my mind anymore, calm down about it, relatively speaking.
00:40But I think, Rusty and I, when we tell you as a listener,
00:43this is uncharted territory.
00:45A quarterback that has put you in two weeks now, it's not just him.
00:50Listen, they've all contributed, but obviously you say it all the time, Rusty.
00:54There's nothing in sports close to the responsibilities of a quarterback.
00:59There's nothing remote because you determine the outcome for 10 other players every play.
01:07Every play, you're the decision maker.
01:09Yeah, Cooper Rush lost those games for us almost immediately.
01:12I know we were in the Pittsburgh game.
01:14We never had a chance because of the way he was playing.
01:16And then he fumbles and throws the pick early.
01:18And by the end of the half, we're already screwed.
01:20And next thing you know, we have five turnovers and Jack Strand is in the game
01:23and the ball's falling out of his hand.
01:24I mean, so Michael Penix Jr., in my estimation, how can't you say if you could play Thursday,
01:31why didn't you try to go Sunday?
01:33And you sent Drake London, Bishon Robinson, and Zachariah Branch,
01:39and Kyle Pitts out there to be just torched.
01:45You sent him out there to get torched.
01:47Cooper Rush literally drops back in Jack Strand.
01:50They have one read, and they go to their foot, which is why those balls keep getting batted.
01:54That's my first read.
01:55It's an eight-yard curl.
01:57He's not threatening them vertically.
01:59They're always going to get the ball in his hands.
02:00Number two, Bishon.
02:00Did you see the throw to Kyle Pitts, speaking of vertically, how wide open he was?
02:03Yes.
02:04How 10 yards underthrown?
02:06Did you see how open Kyle Pitts was?
02:09Sorry, go ahead.
02:10Yes, I did.
02:10But Bishon is facing six-man, seven-man fronts.
02:13I mean, he can't do – he can't – when you watch Kenneth Walker play –
02:18okay, let's talk about elite players.
02:20When you watch Kenneth Walker play, who's one of the best players,
02:23how in the hell the Seahawks let him go, I don't know.
02:25But when you watch him play, he's able to get going,
02:28and then what makes him dangerous is once he breaks the first thing, he's trouble.
02:33Bishon can't get going because they are filling the damn holes.
02:37They're like, we dare this guy to throw.
02:39I know.
02:40We dare this guy to throw.
02:41Drake London's getting a play called over there, and he's like, I'm not getting this.
02:45There ain't no way in hell this guy's going to throw this ball, this deep nine route.
02:48There's no way.
02:49Now, Penix can make all those throws.
02:51He's got a big league arm.
02:53You know, I don't know the damage, and we won't know until, you know,
02:57at the end of the season, and maybe, as you said,
02:59Matt Ryan might sit around one day and talk about it.
03:01We don't know what the locker room feels about him.
03:03I know how he can change things very quickly is to go out and play well, okay?
03:07And they do know that any play, he can make every throw.
03:11He can throw the deep over.
03:13He can throw the deep out.
03:14He's got incredible arm strength, all that.
03:17He will not run the ball for whatever damn reason,
03:19so I'm not expecting him to break the pocket and hurt you there.
03:21But it does open up everything offensively.
03:24But you just said it.
03:25The entire playbook.
03:26They have to challenge vertically, or B. John Robinson is never going to have space.
03:31Zero.
03:31They have to right away establish this is not going to be a only B. John Knight.
03:38Like, we have weapons.
03:39You can't do that.
03:40We got Dotson, and we got Zachariah, and we got Kyle, and we got Drake.
03:44Dude, they haven't even thrown.
03:45They've thrown a couple of bubble screens to Zachariah Branch.
03:47He's so ready to break one.
03:49He is so ready.
03:51He had a long one and a penalty.
03:53I mean, 404-726-0929.
03:57Listen, if they beat Green Bay on Thursday night, which they're not supposed to do,
04:01and you head to New Orleans, and you could get to 500 with a win on Monday Night Football,
04:06everybody in this town will be watching the Saints-Falcons game on Monday night.
04:09If we beat Green Bay.
04:10If we beat Green Bay, right?
04:11Oh, my God.
04:12Because if you beat Green Bay, you've got a divisional game against a rival on a Monday Night Football.
04:18The numbers in this town will be fantastic,
04:21but you've got to find a way to win a game.
04:23And you know how you beat Green Bay?
04:24B. John Robinson has one of those games.
04:27And Drake London has one of those games, like you said.
04:29He's got to have 225 throws.
04:31We've got to get in the damn red zone first.
04:33I mean, I keep saying that.
04:34Drake London has four catches for 80 yards in the first half,
04:38and you go, okay, we're serious about this.
04:40Let's go to Warren in Decatur.
04:42Warren, you're on Sports Radio 92.9 The Game.
04:43What's up, Warren?
04:45Hey, how y'all doing?
04:46Good morning.
04:48Hey, I believe in all Michael Penance,
04:50and I also believe that the organization believes in Michael Penance.
04:53I believe they had an agreement that with the quarterback situation,
04:58Michael had time to kind of heal up.
05:01But unfortunately, things didn't work out how they're supposed to work out with the quarterback situation.
05:05Then it didn't work out with James Pierce,
05:07and then it didn't work out with Jalen on Walker.
05:09Then it didn't work out with the trades and the on-drive capsule.
05:12But I feel like also, when he come back, the play calling is going to change.
05:17The atmosphere is going to change.
05:19The swagger is going to change.
05:20The confidence is going to change.
05:22Well, he's played 11 games in the NFL.
05:24He hasn't had a lot of success.
05:25So I don't know why we think Michael Penance is going to –
05:28but I hope he does, man.
05:30I hope he looks like he did when he played in Washington.
05:32I hope he looks like, you know, a couple of games he's already played where they look good.
05:36But it's not like he's had any success.
05:39The playbook's going to change.
05:40It's definitely – it's going to open up the playbook.
05:43He can throw the ball.
05:44I mean, there's no question about –
05:46they're going to have to play him different than they did Cooper Rush.
05:48I can tell you that.
05:49But I don't know that they – I would have to disagree.
05:53I don't know that this coaching staff believes in Michael Penance.
05:57What gives you – what tells Matt Ryan, Ian Cunningham, and Kevin Stefanski,
06:01let's all put our name on this guy?
06:03There's nothing there.
06:04Now, he's got every opportunity in the world.
06:07This is – you've got every opportunity.
06:09Because when I tell you a franchise that is starving for a quarterback,
06:13there's no other sporting group in the world that wants their quarterback
06:16to play better than the Atlanta Falcons.
06:18We've got to have some quarterback play.
06:20We have got $300 million, basically, in three players offensively.
06:25You know what I mean?
06:25We've got to have somebody we can use these guys.
06:27We've got to have a tremendous money.
06:28But I'm just – I don't know.
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