Quote from: Birdman on Yesterday at 09:10:40 PM

Quote from: Donoghus on Yesterday at 09:08:23 PM

Penix to ATL?!

Wow.

Wow is a overstatement!! Pay all that money for Cousins then draft a QB!! Penix won’t start for awhile unless Cousins get hurt..Jordan Love part 2

Their reasoning is they don't expect to be drafting near the top again and needed a QB for after Cousins.

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Morris said they believe the Falcons are primed to win right now, which means they would not get another shot at drafting a quarterback of the future this high in the draft again.

"These are not easy decisions -- these are tough decisions," Fontenot said. "But that's who we're thinking about. We're thinking about the fans, we're thinking about this organization. We're going to build a sustained winner. We're going to win for a long time. That's the most important position in football."

Needless to say the Cousins camp isn't that enthused about it. They wanted to draft a player that would make the Falcons better today.

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Cousins' agent Mike McCartney told ESPN's Pete Thamel that the Falcons only notified the quarterback that they would pick Penix while the team was on the clock. McCartney said there is frustration and confusion coming from Cousins' camp because Atlanta did not use its first-round pick to make the team better in 2024.

Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot and coach Raheem Morris said Cousins' reaction would remain private.

"He got called on the clock, obviously because of the sensitive time with the issues of what you got going on," Morris said. "It's never a right time to talk to a quarterback about those things. And reactions are always going to be private when it comes to those things, unless Kirk decides to tell you some of those things that are whatever they may be. But he's a competitor, just like us all. And you can always expect those things to go just like you kind of think."

Quotes above from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40026310/falcons-surprise-select-qb-michael-penix-jr-no-8-pick

That's some next level spin zone by the Falcons there.

Unfortunately, this is just who this team is. They don't have that killer instinct to break a team when you can. Atlanta, Philly, Miami, Miami again....they simply cannot be consistent enough to do this. The only time I think I have seen this core group do this was vs Brooklyn the year they swept them.

It is frustrating. It is predictable. It is redundant. It is exhausting.

It is a reflection of a coach that is somewhat not qualified to be coaching this team. It is a reflection of 2 "stars" that complain, whine and let the refs take them out of their games. Tatum is a soft player mentally. He wants to be Kobe but he is no killer like Kobe. Still feel like there is no strong leadership. I mean Al was the one trying to wake this team up in Game 2.

I expected Miami to get a game in the series. Spo is too good a coach. But I did not expect it would be game 2...in Boston. The playoff losses at home are just maddening. It has cost them real chances to win multiple titles.

We will have to wait and see what happens in Game 3. I will not be surprised if Miami wins. I will not be surprised if Boston wins big. But this team is exhausting. I so want to enjoy the journey. But the journey looks like many we have seen before and I am afraid the destination will be the same in the end.

It would be a real shame for this team to cost themselves another title because they cannot get out of their own way like times before. I was hopeful they have learned their lessons of playing with their food but it looks like they have not. Is there time to change that? Yes. But I am really apprehensive that we are going to see a team in Game 3 that struggles.

From Boston Garden Leprechaun:

"So basically a gutless soft team until they decide to get mad throw some chairs in the locker room and take charge".

No, I'm just saying the following:

Don't be the one getting punched, do the punching. Be the basketball aggressor, stop getting pushed around.

Stop choking every meaningful game (Cavs game 7, Warriors game 4. They let Golden State take our hearts out after that game 4 loss - we completely folded in games five and six - never showed up, because Tatum and Brown are basketball cowards. Hate to say it, but it's true and they should be being told that by the coach and the management. It's the psychological growth that's most required by them if we ever watn to win anything.

Don't lose game 2 against a depleted 8th seeded Miami team without Jimmy Butler. Just don't. You're up one game, you absolutely should maul them in game 2, but no, we come out like it's a preseason game.

I'm saying if Draymond Green is harassing you all the way to your own bench that should turn into an extremely heated exchange on the baseline. Tatum just kept walking with Draymond chirping in his ear. Why, because in basketball terms Draymond is a man and Tatum, for all his experience is still a basketball baby. It's the psychological part of the game that is killing Tatum and brown's chances of winning anything - it's not their talent.

I'm saying you don't just get up and walk down to take free throws when Caleb Martin takes you out in mid air. That "needs" to be, that "has' to become a very, very, very heated exchange with him about two inches from his nose. Take a technical  - make it a point to get a technical.

I'm saying, up one game in the first round of the NBA finals, you should come out incredibly p---ed off like a bear with a sore head and stomp all over the other team. But, we never, ever do - we come out like it doesn't matter - just another game, jack up some threes, see what happens - onto the next. That is not a championship mentality.

Have some toughness for god's sake - physically and mentally.

Show some grit. Stop with the terrible body language every time a play doesn't go your way - that is weakness, that is Charmin softness - massive softness - and that' the problem. No grind for these guys.

Show some ferocity - some energy.

You don't win championships - you have take it. Again I have very little belief that Tatum and Brown really understand this or can consistently push themselves to grind to a championship. None whatsoever.       

ugh. you just reminded we we shoulda been up 3-1 in the finals then we folded like  a cheap tent once we blew game 4. infuriating. all these players need to be called out by each other, the media. ownership. brad, etc. joe schmoe won't do it.

we really could use KG and THE TRUTH walking into that locker room and chewing these clowns out.

Bye bye lakers!!! Time for James to complain & excuses but he can say we going to win back to back in season champions 😂😂😂

Quote from: Donoghus on Yesterday at 09:08:23 PM

Penix to ATL?!

Wow.

Wow is a overstatement!! Pay all that money for Cousins then draft a QB!! Penix won’t start for awhile unless Cousins get hurt..Jordan Love part 2

Their reasoning is they don't expect to be drafting near the top again and needed a QB for after Cousins.

Morris said they believe the Falcons are primed to win right now, which means they would not get another shot at drafting a quarterback of the future this high in the draft again.

"These are not easy decisions -- these are tough decisions," Fontenot said. "But that's who we're thinking about. We're thinking about the fans, we're thinking about this organization. We're going to build a sustained winner. We're going to win for a long time. That's the most important position in football."

Needless to say the Cousins camp isn't that enthused about it. They wanted to draft a player that would make the Falcons better today.

Cousins' agent Mike McCartney told ESPN's Pete Thamel that the Falcons only notified the quarterback that they would pick Penix while the team was on the clock. McCartney said there is frustration and confusion coming from Cousins' camp because Atlanta did not use its first-round pick to make the team better in 2024.

Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot and coach Raheem Morris said Cousins' reaction would remain private.

"He got called on the clock, obviously because of the sensitive time with the issues of what you got going on," Morris said. "It's never a right time to talk to a quarterback about those things. And reactions are always going to be private when it comes to those things, unless Kirk decides to tell you some of those things that are whatever they may be. But he's a competitor, just like us all. And you can always expect those things to go just like you kind of think."

Quotes above from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40026310/falcons-surprise-select-qb-michael-penix-jr-no-8-pick