Why Ryan Leaf Thinks the Falcons Nailed the Penix Pick & Can Contend in the NFC
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Will McFadden is joined by former NFL quarterback and Westwood One analyst Ryan Leaf to discuss the Falcons' offseason. Ryan shares why he feels Atlanta nailed the pick with Michael Penix Jr., who he feels was the best quarterback in this year's draft. He also explains why a healthy Kirk Cousins sets the Falcons up to be this year's version of the Detroit Lions in the NFC. Will and Ryan also discuss the team's 2024 schedule and take a trip down memory lane to Ryan's only regular-season start against the Falcons, which featured a rookie quarterback named Michael Vick making his first NFL start. Enjoy!
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Watching Penix against Texas has me very stoked about the day Penix gets to play. Until then I see us in good hands with Cuz.
Will. You're killing it with the guests and content. Keep it up man.
Leaf has had quite a life journey. I'm glad to see him thriving.
Agreed! Good to see someone fight through and Previl
I like Ryan Leaf. Kudos to him for being a professional.
Nice to hear an NFL QB say Penix was the best QB in this draft, and not just because I also believe it. Good times ahead for the Falcons.
So then why pay an old washed up quarterback 45 million a year when you still haven’t addressed the pass rush,the D line are in their 30’s,they don’t have a deep threat at receiver..🤷🏽♂️
Not sure you should listen to ryan leaf
@@ryu-ken But I should listen to you though, right? LOL. 🤦♂👍
@@michaelhoward4951 Cousins is washed?? Lol. Stop being a casual. He had 18 touchdowns by Week 8 last year, before the injury.
I agree with Ryan 1000% ! The Falcons were extremely smart by thinking outta the box and not conforming to normal NFL orthodoxy in getting Penix !!! The dude is freakishly accurate, that was the first thing I noticed when I watched his tape !!! I was hoping my squad would've picked him up !
This is a huge get. Love me some Ryan Leaf 🏈💪.
Drafting Penix was a GREAT move by Atlanta. Penix is a good Future option AND a nice sub for Cousins IF Cousins--coming off a big injury--goes down with injury. Plus, best case, Penix will be Starter ready in 2 years. Also, having Penix gives you leverage over a mercenary like Kirk Cousins. Now the Falcons can show Cousins the Door after 2 years instead of the whole 4. Drafting Penix is a GREAT move by Atlanta.
Boy he nailed it about Falcon fans, always complaining
I’ll take it bro. It beats being the most quiet fan base in sports like we once were. Atlanta has always been thought of as not being a sports town in the past and it’s also a good reason why true talents wouldn’t come here. It’s all changing before our eyes and I am all in for hearing it all. Praise or complaint. Any publicity is good publicity at this point as long as fans are being heard in large numbers. I am personally happy with where my team is at this point. Let’s go!
Except he didn’t actually say why the criticisms of the regime’s decision-making and strategy are wrong. He just condescendingly dismissed them all without any real explanation.
Not this one. I'm glad they chose him
@craigharrell7849 it started with uga and the Braves. Now things are starting to change for the good with the Falcons even the Hawks.
@@calvinbartlett4954 Based on what exactly, taking Penix? If TFs picks and other decisions don’t start justifying themselves PDQ, he could be out of a job within one or two years. At least that’s what a well-run franchise would do.
Finally! Somebody! Thank you Ryan!
I'll admit, draft night I was pissed we didn't go defense, but that night I started doing my homework on Penix Jr., and I watched tape from his Indiana days up to the National Championship. What I saw was a QB who could make every throw from short bubble screens to deep bombs and he was accurate and had the arm to deliver the rock. I'm excited to see what he can become with a veteran QB in Kirk Cousins who has excellent preparation skills and has that dog in him as well. Atlanta, we are going to be in good hands for the next 15 years at QB!
I said it come draft night and i'll continue to say it in 2 years when kirk is starting to show his wear a bit and his guarantees are up. Everyone will be thrilled and praising fontenot that we don't have to trade up from 18 to 32 into the top 5 for a QB thats not as talented as Penix coming out. For me Penix is the 3rd best Qb coming out between last year, this year, and the next 2 drafts. Only 2 guys i have over him are Stroud last year and Daniels this year. I can 1000% guarantee every falcon fan and their mother would be furious when we would have to give up what Carolina did or more to go get our QB 2 years from now in a worse QB class. Thats at minimum 2 1sts, 2 2nds, and a player equivalent to AJ Terrell or London. Thats what the Panthers gave up to move up less than we would have to for Young. So if you are telling me i only have to give up 1 pick at 8 and can keep all those 5+ picks and good vet player for a better QB prospect in Penix. You better bet im taking that over taking 1 edge rusher now.
A GREAT pick. Best qb in draft. Rejoice ATL fans
Didn’t think Ryan Leaf would be here. Watched the 97 Heisman documentary and Leaf was a dawg in college.
His character was why he didn’t make it in the NFL, not his talent
Its everybody else REAL Falcons fans are too excited about now and for the future
Ryan Leaf! I knew about this guy before I even knew what he did for a living. Complete legend. Strong guests lately
I predicted the Penix selection and have been arguing for it since the draft to all the cynics on other platforms. Thanks for this perspective. Totally agree and it gave me a fuller perspective of why the selection was so good.
Trolls living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at others. If we judge ourselves we wouldn't have time to judge others because we'll be too busy trying to clean up our own mess.
Much respect Mr. Leaf you've earned the right to have a respected opinion.
Ryan Leaf has amazing takes! You may not agree with him but he makes you think.
We are winning .. rise up 🔥🔥 0:31
Hands down my favorite product
It's all I recommend to my customers who like the Atlanta Falcons videos
Great interview. Glad to see Ryan Leaf doing well
Good job, Ryan. Hope to hear you call our game(s) someday. 🙏
First reaction was "LET"S GO!!!"
Ryan leaf has such a great football mind. I would love to see him on Monday night football.
Ryan Leaf know ball
Nice interview with Ryan Leaf.
Great show! ♥️
FIN DaALLY some common sense on the Pennix pick. They have to set us up to win now and in the future. The next quaterback will make $300,000,000. You want to be comfortable with your guy. Not playing these guessing games like Dallas is doing with Dakota.
This was a great podcast episode. Keep up the good work 👏
Leaf with the facts...great takes/excellent content
This guy is good. Great questions. I’m subscribing now.
My oldest son and I were at that game that day, Atlanta versus Dallas in the Georgia Dome. It was in fact, Michael Vick’s first start, and he didn’t play very well. He threw the ball very high, almost every pass, and the adrenaline was flowing. Ryan leaf played much better and would have won the game for Dallas, except for our punt returner named Darien Gordon, who had three tremendous long returns that broke Dallas’s will. What an amazing game.!!! in my eyes Ryan Leaf you are a winner!!
Good insight!!
Love the Penix pick. Dirty Bird for 49 yrs now, and I've seen the ups and downs with my team. 28-3 is all that needs to be said. We can't help but worry about something every year. Our history predicates that must.
Great interview.
Kirk about to cook. 🏈
Great content 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This guy knows football
Leaf got jacked! Happy for him.
Steelers play the Lions in week 3 of the pre-season August 24th. Time TBD.
I was at that Cowboys game that Leaf started.
NICE!
falcons fans are too used to editing rosters on madden to their liking lol but as a falcons fan, i love the MP9 pick. he is the future & Kirk is night/day from Ridder(what!), Heinicke(WHAT!)… Mariota(WHAT!?) … dirty birds look good going forward right now.
steelers have 3 preseason games Texans, bills, lions. But great video like hearing his perspective
Who's painting real falcons fans so negatively ..? The falcons content creators I watch are optimistic for the most part. The real fans love the penix selection as well as every topic terry fontenot's snatched over the last 3yrs. We're going to win a chip real soon. We can feel it
You’ll never find a more optimistic fan base.
💯
people want that one now instead of possibly 4 later on as well
Like that Get it done
Interesting for sure. Go DAWGS.
Falcons fans always complaining 💯 but as soon as he proves them wrong they looking stupid
The pick was perfect because he was still there in the draft. The problem is the 100 million guarantee contract, because Kirk hasn't done sh!t in the post season. Facts
Let's Go Steelers ✊🏾
Yeah our fanbase is just dreadful sometimes
This video will be hilarious to watch in 5 years.....at the most.
I'm so excited we drafted Penix and did not want to see J.J. Mccarthy go deep in the playoffs if we failed in first round since that would show the Vikings were right to move to a rookie off of Kirk.
As a Kirk fan (and Vikings' fan), I don't believe that McCarthy is even gonna be playing next season. That's why they signed a bridge quarterback in Darnold. The Vikings GM got rid of all of the players that he didn't bring in or draft unless they were stars. And he wanted his own quarterback. Kirk was playing at a top 10 level in 2022 and a top 5 level in 2023. Had the Vikings GM really wanted Kirk, they would have signed him to a long term deal after the GM was hired. It wasn't about the money either. In 2022, Kirk offered to take less (than his 35 million) for a three year deal and the GM still said no.
😵 Blind NFL!!!!
😂 Falcons could have picked up Nathan Rourke (Undrafted) on waivers and he triples Michael Penix Jr stats and has pro experience in the 🇨🇦CFL
3 years with OHIO BOBCATS and brought them to 3 consecutive championships.
😉 Falcons just lost their shot at a quicker playoff run. 😅 Penix.Jr good qb thats great! 🤭
Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson, Kurt Warner, Russell Wilson, Drew’s Bress, Nick Foles and Brady have won since 2000 and were not first round picks. This notion you need a first round QB to win a Super Bowl is false. Big Ben, Peyton, Eli, Aaron, Staford, Mahomes were first rounders that won. It’s basically half. You can do it if you build around a solid QB.
He said THE LAST 15 YEARS....
2024
-15
2009....
He excluded brady, and probably forgot Nick Files, but for the most part he is correct
It depends on how your roster is set. The falcons roster is a stud defender away from being capable to win a SB. Instead, we doubled up on a position we have $100mm already committed to. 2 years ago, this would have been a phenomenal pick
we had a top 12 defense last year with a bad offense. if we avg 3 more points we would have been in playoffs last season. so it seems you dont understand how big it is to go from ridder to kirk
@drew388 I love signing kirk. What we didn't need was a QB at pick 8 when other talent was available that could have filled weak spots on our roster. Seems like reading comprehension isn't one of your strong suits
@@uahoe you dont pass on a qb like penix. you just dont do it. he has the skill set to be the besr qb in this draft period. kirk coming off a injury and if he gets hurt you want heinkie again? we got the best problem you can possibly have in nfl. who is the better qb. sounds like you didnt comprehend that i talked about the defense already. you say we need a stud and my comment to that was we had a 12th ranked defense. defense was not our problem it was qb.
@drew388 then explain why other GMs were laughing after our pick and when asked basically said we don't know wtf Atlanta is doing. Explain why if it's such a no brainer decision that Terry had to beg Arthur to make the pick?
@@uahoe because they need a story to talk about. if it wasnt us then it be something else. but funny how you say that because now that they thought about our pic and let it sink in im hearing falcons getting more praise from football players ex football players other coaches and media itself. ive heard over a dozen different articles from different resources sayin penix is either the 2nd best qb out of this draft to some claiming he will be the best. so even with kirk signing we might be in a great spot. fyi they also laughed when chiefs got patrick mahomes also
If Ryan Leaf thinks you’re good…
Ryan, who? Gtffoh
Kirk can’t be the saviour of the franchise if he’s not properly supported. We know that Terry and Raheem have chosen to neglect certain position groups and kick the can down the road; to suggest otherwise is propaganda, or self-delusion
How is Kirk "not supported" when he's walked straight into a situation where he has Pitts, Drake, Bijan and Allgeier. Then the Falcons go out and sign the WR that Kirk recruited in Mooney. Traded for a speed guy in Rondale. Not to mention they have a solid O line. So how was Kirk not properly supported again?
Only one self deluted here is you. This offense should be scary good and our defense will do what they need to do.
@@dizzydacure8226 Mooney and Moore are reclamation projects, their recent production if repeated would not be adequate. As such, Pitts will need to improve on his 2021 season by a significant degree to make up for even part of that shortfall. Additionally, our pass protection was at times quite erratic last season. Recruiting for the future in the draft wouldn’t have gone amiss, be it WR or OL. So while we can be confident in London, Allgeier and Bijan, there is a good deal of uncertainty after that.
Supporting Kirk also involves the defense. We ought to have prioritised corner or safety in the draft IMO but instead opted for developmental DL guys three successive picks in a row.
Now you could compensate for some of these choices via increased activity in free agency. Unfortunately, Terry was mostly cautious after the Cousins signing and very little occurred. No established or veteran pass rusher, no secondary help that indisputably raises the level etc
@@dizzydacure8226 Mooney and Moore are reclamation projects, their recent production if repeated would not be adequate. As such, Pitts will need to improve on his 2021 season by a significant degree to make up for even part of that shortfall. Additionally, our pass protection was at times quite erratic last season. Recruiting for the future in the draft wouldn’t have gone amiss, be it WR or OL. So while we can be confident in London, Allgeier and Bijan, there is a good deal of uncertainty after that.
Supporting Kirk also involves the defense. We ought to have prioritised corner or safety in the draft IMO but instead opted for developmental DL guys three successive picks in a row.
Now you could compensate for some of these choices via increased activity in free agency. Unfortunately, Terry was mostly cautious after the Cousins signing and very little occurred. No established or veteran pass rusher, no secondary help that indisputably raises the level etc
@dizzydacure8226 Do you think Kirk would have signed if he knew you would draft a qb at 8? Hell no...he wants to win now and that stupid pick doesn't help !!!
Penix fanboys are off the rails. I wouldn't be using Ryan Leaf quotes as a positive.
Even with leaf being a bust, he's still better at playing quarterback than you'll ever be at anything you set your mind to. Let that sink in troll.
Penix may end up being good, but no way is he the best qb in the class.
you cant say that. he has a more accurate deep pass then caleb.
@@drew388 There's much more to playing qb then throwing the deep ball.
@@Mike-wg2vp yeah his stong points are hi ability to find a open target fast and i did already say accuracy. sorry i have to explain. sounds like you didnt research penix too much. and he runs a 4.4. but he dont run alot he barely has rushing yards in college
A little critical thinking might’ve benefited the comparison you were making with Detroit.
Certainly, London has been let down by QB play, but he’s not on ARSB’s level right now. Similarly, we’ve never seen KP come close to La Porta’s TD production. Nor do we have an Aiden Hutchinson in our pass rush. Sure, we have high hopes for Zac Robinson, but you can’t just assume he’ll be Ben Johnson.
So much of what this regime is pursuing is theory/hope/arrogance. As such, you can’t describe it as a win-now approach. They’ve just not built in enough redundancy (or quality) at multiple position groups.
Ryan leaf dont know a single thing about quarterbacks lol
Leafs opinion on QBs has more weight than most people spouting takes on here.
Who the f**k are you and When did you get drafted in the NFL?
@@slimpickens9103facts
Yea he deff missed something on this one to many major injuries already, braindead pick no matter how you sugar coat it or the result at # 8 to sit on the bench for multiple yrs even 2 would be retarded
Ryan Leaf was talented, his work ethic was why he flamed out, not his talent
Penix is the only qb knew without a shadow of a doubt he wouldn’t succeed in the nfl all the other QBs have the potential to do great and to just fail miserably Penix is the only one I know will fail it just makes me so mad to know we wasted a top 10 pick on a bust
You had me until you made all those excuses for Penix against Michigan. Why can't people just admit they were wrong about their predictions tip your cap to your opponent?.... especially when they completely dominated you.
Saban didn't announce his retirement until after the national championship game and Washington coach was not their 1st choice so saying they weren't prepared because he was leaving makes absolutely no sense.
Penix is going to be an incredible QB in the NFL Ryans assessment on him is spot on but is performance vs Michigan happened too. Both can be correct.
Don't get it twisted I think Penix is going to be a stud in the NFL. Michigan's defense also picked off Stroud twice last yr shutting him down in 2nd half beating him convincingly for the 2nd year in a row and Stroud turned out okay.
Why the fuck would anyone take advice from Ryan Leaf about the NFL draft
really? maybe because he is a qb.
Best QB in the draft is going to be a backup. WTF?
I thought it was pretty dumb move and I'm not that impressed with him to begin with.
No one cares.
Only time will tell bro
@@huntjl88literally no one