Falcons' MICHAEL PENIX JR. not playing in NFL PRESEASON games is 'DUMB' | Football 301

so week two happens all the rookie quarterbacks play except for JJ McCarthy and Michael penck of your Atlanta Falcons the number eight pick who is the backup quarterback this year uh or slated to be uh behind Kirk Cousins is did not play did not even suit up a series did not even come out for warm-ups and Pats or anything like that was in shorts just like he's the starter rahee Morris says he won't play again this preseason what do you think about this Charles I I just want your your bold not bold I want your naked takes on this like your first thoughts when you saw that penx wasn't playing and then the aftermath of Raheem Morris's comments it's it's just why why why do you guys keep doing this like no this is this is dumb it's it's just dumb because he needs to play he just needs to he flat out needs to play uh if you're going to do this thing where you acquire Kirk and penck in the same off season financially you can't get rid of Kirk for two seasons so like you're locked into him as your starter and and not only that because I've seen you know Falcons fans be like well can we just get rid of Kirk after one year well do you want to pay AJ Terrell do you want to pay Kyle pittz do you want to pay Matt judon who you just traded for if you do then yeah you want to keep Kurt Cousins on this roster because the thing that's going to make it harder to sign those guys is a big old block of dead cap that you can't move from uh kurk Cousins being you know you know moving away from his contract so fast so with penck he has to play in this preseason because when is he going to play you've already said the best case scenario is he doesn't play for four years so what you you're just gonna you're gonna just not ever let him touch the field we seen enough right so 13 passing attempts against a backup Dolphins defense that was all you needed to see that's it and you're just convinced that oh well he's the starter but now the thing is you you you invite you invite the conspiracy theorists to come out and and talk about this where you have oh well is Kurt Cousins not healthy because if you were going to tell me that Kurt Cousins actually was not healthy enough for week one then yeah I might sit penck too because then we're looking at qb3 starting the season if if penck were to get hurt but if he's healthy and you you don't have any atttention as Taylor Hani has spoken himself he does not see himself on this roster so why is Michael panx not playing in these games if you don't expect to play him it makes it makes no sense and they they keep acting like they've stumbled into like some War like some world or some plane that no NFL team has ever existed in before where they have this young R rookie quarterback who they think is good that doesn't matter he still needs to play this is crazy and we were messaging privately about this and I I thought you had a great Point too I I think it was more of a back and forth but you brought it up this isn't like he's replacing Matt Ryan who's been there for a decade 12 years 14 years is a legend and okay now we put him out the Pure or trade him and then now we got the new guy Kurt Cousins is not an established figure in the Atlanta locker room I mean he's not even an established figure among NFL pundits Now imagine him in a locker room I mean no one knows where he ranks in the on the hierarchy it's not like he's a Bonafide oh yeah this is a guy you know it's like oh yeah he gets the job done but it's not like Kurt Cousins comes in it's like oh this guy's a brand and I'm not like just trying to I'm I'm being funny but being kind of serious too like it's not like people come in and go like oh this guy just won the Heisman this guy you know he it's Kirk Cousins I I think that you're creating kind of a uphill sledding for him and not saying it's it's not fair to Kurt Cousins he got paid plenty of money and this why you get paid plenty of money like prove it like this just you better be freaking proving it so I'm not saying wo is him but just these are the little things the minutia of all these decisions that are kind of adding up and kind of that's it's I don't know I want to say conc erning but just kind of like what are you guys doing like kind of just what like you guys are really acting like you solve something that no one else has and it's just kind of it's weird to me hubus is the word we keep coming back to and that's just what's kind of just kind of it's just interesting to me like the it's not just throws it's it's plays and it's just stuff like huddling it's stuff like understanding maybe a matchup that week it's learning what the changing third down plays every week and yes he's an older player but it's different in the NFL I always come back to this during the college or during the draft season when people go oh he played against you know NFL corners or NFL defenses it's like no no no those are SEC defenses yes with maybe two NFL players like we say those guys are NFL players but only like two will stick well guess how many of these guys are sticking a lot of them so that is that's it just doesn't add up it's just weird and the injury stuff too people go well he's has an injury history we don't want to get him hurt why draft him eight you know they have to play 17 games like you if you're scared about one half of a preseason one quarter two series yeah just uh it's weird it's a strange strange thing first I think I think the Kurt Cousins thing like dude nobody in Atlanta gives a crap about Kurt Cousins he hasn't played a down so when you when you do this you all you do is invite people to just not believe in Kurt Cousins which people are kind of inclined to do anyways the second point with with panics and like oh he threw against NFL Corners you look at Le let's say the best team that Nick Sab ever had at Alabama let's call like a mid-2010s Alabama team and you took you take the whole roster from freshman through seniors you have what 25 NFL players on there over the course of the threeyear period you know it's a lot more than 25 53 okay so this this you're just you're just not playing not 25 pro bowlers right like you know maybe a half dozen you know don't get me wrong probably 10 maybe in that in that group but you know not all of them yeah most most of them are just going to be like practice squad guys or like you know bottom of the roster guys this is it's bad it's bad it is it yeah I mean the other and we'll just kick it to the other QBs because like what I I actually just want to see more of pennic because I actually liked some of the things he did in the first game and I was like okay cool he had a nice throw over the middle which is a big concern of mine of his and I was like okay good you're it's cool to see him progress through some things but you just wanted maybe it's I I've seen other people go like hey they don't care about you getting examples for your your takes it's like it's not that I'm just trying to understand the process here I'm just trying to figure this out because you look at every other quarterback uh rookie quarterback I should say they all played Caleb Williams played almost essentially a whole half uh Jane Daniels played a decent amount uh Drake May played a good amount Bo Nicks played a good amount started um well three of these guys started and then may played a good amount too