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'Disappointing' Michael Penix Jr. not taking advantage of Falcons QB challenge

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Carl and Mike get back into football headlines including the Falcons having to go with Cooper Rush as QB1 in their season opener due to Tua Tagovailoa being out with an oblique injury and as they discuss, they agree in being disappointed Michael Penix Jr. is not able to go.

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'Disappointing' Michael Penix Jr. not taking advantage of Falcons QB challenge

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happy friday everybody were live it twin peaks in bucket it is dook's in bell and uh... our friday is taking a turn just a little bit because of the news coming out of flower branch kupa rush is going to be your starter on sunday it is not to with the oblique and uh... we've been discussing this and what it means for not only the game plan but the falcons opportunity in chances to go up to pit's bird and when mike you said the line has moved right yes on some sports books it's up to six which has had us talking about now this is still a bit spurt stillers is a very anemic offense you know and that we're still you know wondering where the past rush comes from but six seems a bit rich you know i i'm not saying how that's how we're going to play it but the picture coming up and it's in three it is it is uh... will continue to discuss all that that entails guys and and again so many different comments from you guys coming in uh... on the text line and certainly on our social media about how you're feeling about this uh... how you feel about michael pinnicks again inactive that has not changed uh... we will have an emergency third string quarterback but jack strand is

your backup who is this emergency third string quarterback i don't know in the jokes are endless i mean you know guys are sending memes of met ryan running out there they're working with top men who top men yeah i mean nobody knows who this is and again met ryan i wouldn't you know what i'd like to see met ryan side of one day contract and just get out there and do it but either way yeah that's the thing and it's a lot of guys is what a couple guys in the text line saying you know they were you know very angry at me for like you know questioning panic since it is just toughness and all this and i never got never questioned his physical toughness is metal top this we're talking about now it's getting your head right but they're feeling like yeah this was kind of a good opportunity here for panic but again with maybe next week maybe the third week maybe october and spain soon ha maybe it's spain michael panic spills right what happened that isn't that november oh come on don't know okay i can't rush it car yeah look i said ham newton says you don't know anything to the man don't get hassled by the man yeah

well look i will say the man is going to put you down carl well you know the man nothing i will say in the and the man is the nfl because the nfl throws guys out every year correct they don't think twice about them so he's not wrong about that that's why i'm always happy when guys do get their back get your money we always agree about that because this this this that last long but you know it's tough as sport next maybe hockey and and the nfl you can never make enough you can't because your career can be over like that the only thing guaranteed is your signing bonus i uh... my confidence level though is is down it was it was one to link to begin with to be quite honest with you um... because i just know and again i i'm just looking at the defensive side of things it is going to be hard to get the kind of pressure we had last year with with two major pieces out so this just adds to to my anxiety about this game but but let me ask you just a hypothetical question before we get into some other stuff because again the brave's duplicated play tonight chris sale on the hill and all a great friday night matchup as the philly's in here for four four games set we lead or three games should i

say and we lead them by four games in the nl east let me ask you a hypothetical where would this franchise b and what would we look like if kow shana hand remained here and was our coach and the reason i ask you that is because he is now in his tenth season leading the niders they've already had super bowl appearances they were on the verge last year of possibly getting back and they were decimated by injuries last night they beat the ramps the most hyped team in the offseason and shana hand who is now just forty six by the way gets a deal in the offseason might to extend with the forty nine is that nobody even really knew about tom pelicero said this announcement or this this actually happened during the offseason nobody knew it and then last night it kind of got revealed and i'm sitting there thinking the what if game what what if he had stayed and and and there was vision with ownership to say you know what this is really as you used to say the brains of the operation right what what would this look like it would have been

completely different that's going to three or four different coaches and was never going to say no to the forty nine is but then at the old the old argument was dan dan quenches bringing matla floor matla floor knows the system shana hand system you know same thing that happened to alabama national championship game against cleansing happened with us and sarkeesian even though sarkeesian was part of that process thrown in as an o c it was lane kiffons offense and this was shana hands offense and he had never coached that version of a west coast offense and it showed we you guys you realize we went into l a beat the rams and that was a high powered offense at that time we go into filly keep them under twenty one points and we don't go to the next round we could be should have been in the nfc championship we could have actually carl flip the ultimate script from that choke job of the super bowl but again shana hand and again we all know what should have happened but dan quen had autonomy with us o c and no one had the presence of mind the situation awareness to look at what we should have been doing that final drive before over time but last night if you watch the game on netflix uh... they did a hell of a job i mean the rams they do that all celebration with their napping in

the end zone being netflix of course you didn't get to see the whole thing because they have a camera guy in the end zone netflix is awful uh... rock perty though regroups three touchdowns one pick macafry they grind at the average six point eight just ten carries yeah and some hard runs but the big story for me i think you and i talked about this off the air to markis robinson and mike evans you know dibo all three of those guys dbo back doing what he needs to do but the way that shana hand scheme and also hats off didn't work out as a head coach on two occasions but hats off to coach rehim morris with a really great defensive plan especially carlosing to his defensive lineman he has been and i i said this when he got here he is a super bowl winning coordinator say what you want about rock he is a very good defensive mind right and just not a head coach and so with that said you know he helped his boy across the road there in shahamig vey win a super bowl i think he may be trying to help his other buddy here in in kowshanahan get there as well and there's no reason guys if they stay healthy the thing about them is their old they got a lot of old pieces and they're broken down as the seasons early when you get late in

the season look at their roster and see how many guys are injured or banked up because they have paid all their stars right matthew staffer to make some bad decisions one ball was picked one should have been picked you know and you look at the run game they tried to use they get the smaller running backs and corpsman williams carl yep and they just they weren't getting the traction uh a twenty they ran at 29 times i mean there's a lot of running by the rams but they just blew it and i just felt the rams and everyone's talking about how do you prepare for this kind of game first off can we never do this again you you feel me on this with the Australian experience you know i don't like international game i don't like them i'm melburn i'm lucky to have been there twice it's an amazing city i've been there for formula one great sports fan great people but imagine and i told you yesterday in guy talk you said 165 feet from the sideline you had some port slubs who bought tickets from america who thought i got i got front row you might as well have a telescope and you know i love the spectacle it looked great as far as visually but it's just we shouldn't be doing this this is a divisional game with two teams that have super well aspirations to put them into this meat grinder

and again the rams i think in hindsight maybe don't talk to the i guess the sleep experts yeah and just get your ass down there for a week you get acclimated you're gonna have nine days till your next game i just don't like these international games and well this but this is the extreme going to europe is one that's that's that's that's an la trip plus two hours yeah this is insane it is but they all suck and here's the other thing is someone pointed out to me you know you're going to another country to to give them our best sport and then you put it on a pay service you know for nfl fans right the people who are that the most loyal to you in fl oh you got to pay extra for this i mean like there's so many levels and elements to this mic but i'm just not a huge fan of we've asked you this yesterday about the our home game are we losing a home game we go to Madrid you know like all these things man they add up but this is the greed of of where the NFL is and and that's just guys that's not going to change you they're not doing this to cut less international opportunities no it's uh it is a home game for us against the Bengals in Madrid

so i can solve joe burl down here but i know but that's it guys it's the hubris of rogica dale who just got a raise in a contract extension because the NFL is printing money but this australia game is literally jumping the shark from the crappy sight lines to netflix being absolutely horrible at broadcasting the NFL and that's not a reflection on l duncan good friend of ours but i mean they've they've got production issues with that broadcast it's just not good you know i mean how about last night talking about terri mccoly well terri's you want to get my microphone right there literally do you see that i didn't i didn't i mean literally you've got the they're they're talking about a play and what do they think about it and they go terri mccoly is nodding okay great how about you give a microphone to the former NFL referee to speak i mean netflix is horrible and you're right you're you're a diehard fan if you're our generation or you guys are younger in your 20s the NFL success is built on our parents to your generation for being loyal NFL fans and now they screw you with this crap with having to watch five different

pay services to watch a full season cost a lot and it costs a lot let's hear from last night speaking of last night shinnahann this is cow shinnahann talking about the game plan he they were brilliant i always knew what day it was i was trying to show how confusing it was comparing it to people at home but i learned the days when we got here we're one ahead now i'm ready to go back back into the future i think it's Thursday at home and it's Friday here my son plays on Friday so somehow i'm gonna land over a day later but still be able to make his game on Friday so it's pretty cool i mean the game worked you know i mean at win or lose i knew everyone's gonna make a big deal about that for either team you never know how much that factors into it you just try to do the best prepare for three and a half hours i like how we prepared but more important they like how we played yeah and people gave him crap because he was laying out you know i'm a day behind and i'm looking at my watch and i don't know what day it is and so he clarified that and then obviously

talking about the game plan worked and that it did here's shinnahann also talking about no air in Donald's plan because air in donald was not there last night just smiled i said that's good so we're gonna have to see him eventually we play them twice so but it's i was hoping he won it i was preparing for the worst and glad that we don't have to see him this week so mike we saw mike Evans in our division all these years he he became a hall of fame wide receiver in this division with the bucks last night he looked like he hadn't lost anything and his buddy George kiddo said as much after the game about how impressed he was with mike Evans when they i've really enjoyed about mike Evans and being out of practice with them like we call these plays for him and let's just say he has like some type of widened posts and the coaching points are hey you have to be the bottom edge of the numbers by 15 to 20 yards and you have to keep it high in inside it takes a lot of receivers a lot of time to try to do that like young receivers take some of the reps like my heavens gets told what plays and then he just does it and he's just like no coaching points it's just fun to be around somebody who knows that yeah he was great you said at that receiving core man yeah but shanahan i mean it was it was masterful it's the stuff you know you and i for guys don't

remember we used to lie from broke back mountain after the super ball which shanahan left is i can't quit you because he's one of the best play callers in the game and then you heard Sean McVeigh of course this is on me i got to do a better job it's on me yeah no blank sure lock but Matthew Stafford was not good no and and i know a lot's been made about it and he owned it miles guaranteed he's not a hundred percent but miles Garrett i mean you look at him in second x-band and he had no impact on that game yeah but he also was going up against another all pro and trip Williams right give Trent his do like Trent trance all too you can move him around you know if you're if you're shula the DC you're right but i'm saying like he wasn't going up against some buster like Trent Williams has been in this league a long time and gotten a lot of money as well he did a hell of a job zero pressures from miles Garrett like i said none existed and that truly was that's that's pro baller pro baller hall of famer hall of famer all right man we're advantage niders yeah we're coming back what about the Falcons Daniel Flick who writes for the a.j.c. calm covers the Falcons is going to join us next we'll get the latest from flowery guys Cooper resters your

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