Michael Penix Jr. drafted by the Falcons at No. 8 | Pat McAfee Draft Spectacular 

Bill Belichick, Boston Connor, and a fake Mel Kiper Jr. what a time to witness.

Seriously. There's some people that should stick to basement streams

They also have a Mel Kiper knockoff lol

Yea I’m sure there were several moments when Bill was thinking “what am I doing here”

@@ATL64BR33ZYit was all over his face all stream 💀

Just without the history of excellence

This pick is even dumber than that Jordan love pick because penix was suppose to go in the second round 😂

Not even remotely. You guys had a winning record and the 28th pick

This pick makes zero sense when you consider what they spent for Cousins. Add to it that Penix would have been there in the second round. 28-3

3 teams tried to trade into the top 10 for penix….

Outside the trey Lance pick 100%. Even then though, trey was meant to take over after a year. Penix is the oldest qb and gonna be sitting for at least the next 3 years

Worst pick ever in the NFL draft!

@@trentwise3762man gone start mid season, why would they take a 24 year old and want him to sit 3 years?

@@luckfrmko678 because they just paid Kirk $180 million over 4 years with $90 million Guaranteed. Why would they bench him after paying that much?

​@@trentwise3762that's obviously not what the falcons are going to do lol

No it's smart . Prevents other teams who need a QB from getting one!!

The Falcons have always had a "compromised" front office. Tell us you knew!

Kirk's getting $100M guaranteed. But it looks like he'll play two years & retire after 2025. Which after that Penix will take over. I was annoyed at first. But succession plans need to be in place at that position. Fontenot most def learned the hard way w how he handled the Matt Ryan situation two years ago.

@@cornfilledscreamer614 W Dimitroff yes. Different now. Bc they're think ahead instead of waiting til 2026 to draft a successor.

​@@joshingram071 sit the young QB and learn the system. There's A LOT of QBs that may have had better careers if they did that

good point.

So what

That Jordan Love pick is still stupid to this day even if he turns out to be a great qb (which it looks like he will). This pick is even dumber. Aaron Rodgers and that packers team may have won a Super Bowl if they take a top WR or DB in that draft. That team was literally one piece away.

@@V3rnSqwd5611 Atlanta is one piece away too. Trust me the Coach last year / QB was the problem.

@@jetmoetion lmaooooo

Arthur Smith is going to be busy ruining Russell Wilson and Justin Fields

@@Jacko89 tough to say since he made tannehil into a good qb while in Tennessee. And last night showed the incompetence of ATL’s GM decision making so it’s tough to turn a UFL QB like he had the last two years into anything good. Can’t really put lipstick on a pig and call it a princess

Needed an edge rusher for at least 10 years now

@@MrBruttomesso15 years

and? none were good enough this year for pick 8. if u think this is your franchise qb, u take him, otherwise u spend 10 years looking for one

@lavs8696 With that 8th pick you take Alabama's Dallas Turner. as your edge guy. Wouldve been perfect.

@@timeliness545 turner is a bigger reach at 8 than penix. why draft a edge there thats going to get u 3 sacks next year and take 2-3 years to develop? terry drafts best player available, not doing that gets you jamaal anderson over patrick willis. if they ranked penix highest on their boards they take him, franchise QBs are very hard to find and if they think hes him they take him

26 kirk only here for 2 years

@@senseig7129wrong 😂his out is in 2027 if they cut him at any time after 2025 they owe over 40 mill in dead cap space for remainder of his contract…

@@senseig7129you really thought you did something? You realize Kirks agent made sure he got 3 years of 40+ mill from the Falcons

@@deadeyedad8831 o so I'm the clown 🤡 How insulting. Site your source where this information come from

@@deadeyedad8831yeah, I think they’ll trade cousins but then again, he’ll have little value or what if he retires

Cousins has a no-trade clause in the first 2 years of his Falcons contract, meaning Michael Penix will have to sit behind Cousins in his first 2 seasons in the NFL. Jordan Love’s “rookie” season last year was actually his 4th season, and Michael Penix will have to wait until at least his 3rd season before he can start in Atlanta.

@@darealconmanunless cousin is benched or get hurt

Seahawks signed Matt Flynn to a huge contract and got beat out by Russel Wilson in training camp. Worst case scenario he gets to learn for a couple years

Russell Wilson had a no trade clause when he was traded to Denver.

​@EpoxyApex that contract was a 4 and 24 deal. Look at Cousins deal

So you would rather roll with the has-been/never-was QB rather than start with a fresh young team with Bijan, Drake, and Pitts? I think the Commanders have used that strategy for at least a decade and look at them. Can't win.

Just saying...Falcons defense was ranked 7th last year until Arthur Smith lost the locker room at the end of the year and they didn't play hard, giving up ≈40 points in each of the last 2 games...and that was without Grady Jarrett for most of the year.

We didn't need Bowers. But considering how he handled the Matt Ryan situation, he needed to make the right choice in succession plans. Rather do it now than wait til 2026.

We need defense, we took a mf that won’t play for atleast 2 years unless Kirk gets hurt smh

@@joshingram071 man lol

He’s gonna be 28 before he sees the field

@@joshingram071bowers at 8 make way more sense than a qb at 8 tho lol

All the mock drafts had them drafting one

The Falcons don't value being a competent franchise

@@chris12021 we have like 6 rounds to get one bro, it's not the end of the world

If any of those defensive guys were can’t miss , projected hall of famer I would agree. But they weren’t . They were just the best available in this draft and they went where they went because teams may have liked them but weren’t that excited about them

@@chickenyouate4429When you sign Kirk Cousins to a $180 million contract, and then immediately draft his replacement without telling him and his agent (Cousins’ agent was PISSED when the Falcons took Penix), it most certainly feels like the end of the world. It will be the end of the world if Penix doesn’t develop in Atlanta.

Risk and Reward for this doesn't match up imo

@@schwarzmann1 In a perfect world, we get 3-4 years out of Cousins, and Penix is willing to stick around that long. I just don't see that happening. Penix is too good to be finally taking over when he's 27-28 years old...

Or Latu or turner

I know the bears war room went crazy when they saw Rome fall into their lap.

The future**. Fixed it for you.

😂

😅 ima life long falcons fan but this pick makes me question my fandom

You go ahead, I’m going to watch Penix go on to be a Top 10 QB

It’s not the pick. It’s the fact they just signed Kirk

@@russellsnead3977 They are going to dump Cousins after 2 years. Penix will be ready and you will have a ton of money to work with.

And thank you. #SKOL

QBs play until 38-40 now especially with the rules designed to keep them healthy

My guess is he flashes when Kirk gets hurt, they end up trading Kirk. Or cut. Bad pick lol

@@ringwormshermi think its gone be another nick foles jags situation or aaron rodgers jets situation... only difference is falcons will have a better back up. My opinion its a smart think ahead type of move from the dirty birds

Here's something you might want to consider. All of the success that Penix had in college came when he was being coached by Kalen DeBoer. Toss the true freshman 2018 season where he did mop up duty for a few passes & look only at his game from 2019-2023.Deboer coached him in 2019. He jumped to Fresno State in 2020. Penix was good in 2019 with DeBoer, but he was pretty average in 2020 & 2021 without him. Considering the fact that a QB should be getting better year by year in college but he got worse...that's a pretty significant red flag. His stat lines across the board dropped drastically for those 2 years. So he jumped through the portal in 2022 to Washington where Deboer had landed. Back with him, he was great. Why is this important? Because Kalen DeBoer is a true QB whisperer. He made some guy named Patrick Ramsey look like a possible NFL draft pick for a while before Penix arrived at Indiana. If you dig into his background, you'll be impressed with what QBs do with him. He's got Jalen Milroe next year at Alabama. I'll go ahead right now & predict that Milroe will win the Heisman & be a #1 draft pick. The question now is, can he do it in the NFL without DeBoer & without the spread offense he was in? Ironically, he might have landed in the best spot for him. He can sit for two years behind Cousins, & that is how long he probably needs to sit. He's not ready for the NFL now despite what a lot of people think. Meanwhile, the Falcons will need to find themselves a RT who is a great pass protector, and that definitely isn't Kaleb McGary. Penix' injury situation with the shoulder injures is the worrisome part. The ACL are not as much so but he had serious issues with his shoulder problems. If you can't keep this dude upright he could have a short NFl career.

@@user-zr4km5ns8tMilroe is not that good. ‘QB whisperer’ as a coach or not

@@armanr8641 Actually he is. But if you don't think DeBoer is capable of getting him into the Tua/Young category, I suggest you look at what he did with Penix at Indiana in 2019, then again at Oregon in 2022 & 2023. Milroe is already miles better than Penix was without DeBoer. But compare Penix season in 2019 with DeBoer to the 2020 & 2021 seasons without him. It's a huge drop off without him. Then when he goes to Oregon & has him again, his numbers skyrocketed. DeBoer might have the most QB friendly system in the country.Milroe put up very solid numbers last year which was his first a starter. He'll crush it with DeBoer, & he can use his legs too, something neither Penix nor Tua or Young could do. Don't be surprised if Milroe goes in the top 5 of the 2025 draft. He's fast & athletic, he's got a big time arm, he's built like a running back & he's got all the tools to put up huge numbers in a DeBoer offense.

Hard to admit you are just wrong huh?

I'd like to throw in a wrinkle to this pick: 1) Falcons are banking on having winning season (meaning bottom of 1st round picks the upcoming seasons) and wouldn't get to draft another franchise QB from that spot unless they made a Trey Lance type of trade up 2) The Falcons are about to be hit hard with the rulebook and are going to have picks taken away bc of tampering, so I doubt they will be able to make that type of Trey Lance package of draft picks Just trying to reason the pick, if they really like the QB, it's not bad because I doubt they will have anyone after Cousins

Preach

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Ever look at stat sheet? I thought not. Besides, we don't need a Penix fanboy here on this thread.

@@lamarsmith5971stats? lol man go to bed. Believe what ESPN tells you. You know how much influence SC has on sports media?? I think not…

His isn't accurate...

Facts

​@@gary50900 what?? He's one of the most accurate qbs prolly the most accurate in this class

This falcons defense will never go 14-3

Pretty expensive insurance policy. Ain’t no qb winning with that defense so it doesn’t matter.

@@V3rnSqwd5611 I think the Falcons will address some of their other needs in the later rounds !

Jordan Love was a late 1st round pick, and was two years younger. There were still top prospects on the board here, while with Jordan Love there weren't.

That Jordan Love pick is still stupid to this day even if he turns out to be a great qb (which it looks like he will). Aaron Rodgers and that packers team may have won a Super Bowl if they take a top WR or DB in that draft. That team was literally one piece away.

......the best on the board still left was Nix...or don't you know how to read a stat sheet?

​@@lamarsmith5971stats don't mean everything

He owned nix he was the best QB available

​@lamarsmith5971 his stats are massively padded.

Wrong

The idea is not to compete for 1-4 years optimistically, but to compete for years to come. This move could ensure they aren't also-rans for years like they have been. But I can absolutely understand the fans frustration of how does this help us win NOW. Because unless it lights a fire under Kirk, it doesn't next to some of the prospects they passed on.

We could have. I really wanted us to because I was going to be pissed if we traded him and drafted another in the 3rd-5th rounds. That would've been pointless. This makes that better. Now we're set for the future, while we should be built to win right now as well.

Doesn't matter. We had Ridder as aback up. Why waste a number 8 pick? We needed defense.

Facts 💯 just like Daniel " Danny dimes" Jones contract

Remember, they did this when they took Mike Vick when Chris Chandler was their guy.

​@@jmcgee39facts 💯

@@jmcgee39 Vick wasn’t 25 yrs old as a rookie tho.

@@CalebWilliams2030Penix is only 23 yall be pushing the age to fit the narrative the man can play and Kirk is 35 going on 36 fresh off the Achilles it’s a risk still with him. Not every qb got the longevity of Brady or Rodgers now

@@NikcoStylesBrownhe will be 24 in about 2 weeks