This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.

What is up, Dahlf fans, and welcome to the Drive Time podcast.

I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, it is a football Friday, a variety

show here on the Friday edition of Drive Time.

We're going to have Kyle Crabs join us later on.

We're going to talk to Will McFadden from the Falcons to break down this week's matchup, make the week eight picks.

And I want to talk a little bit about some college film I watched over the course of this week.

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This football Friday by Will McFadden from Falcons.com to break down Sundays' matchup from

Atlanta's perspective and start where I always start on these crossover podcasts, the opponent spotlights, with the quarterback position.

And I mentioned to you that I'm new to the area from Seattle.

So I watched a lot of Michael Pennix when he was in college there at UW his last year. But he's still pretty green in terms of number of starts. Where would you say he is in terms of his development? And how do Falcons, brass, and fans and everyone feel about where he's going? Not where he is so much today, but where he's going as a quarterback. Yeah, I think that's a great way to frame the conversation because he is still very

much, I think, developing. We've seen the high highs. You know, it is so clear that he has just one

of the rarest arms, I think, in the NFL. And so when you have that type of talents work around,

you obviously want to be patient. You want to develop it the right way. You want to make sure that, yeah, and you get a

Josh Allen type of player maybe at the end of the deal instead of a Jim Marcus Russell situation.

Right. So that's where the Falcons are at. And they've seen a lot of positive signs in that area.

Certainly as three games last year kind of And they've seen a lot of positive signs in that area, certainly as

three games last year, kind of set the foundation for a lot of optimism and hope going into the

2025 season. So far, I think it's been a mixed bag. And I was kind of digging into his play a little

bit this morning. He's only made nine starts. In 17-game season now, that's just over halfway.

So that's kind of to me where it's fair to look at where he can go. But it's also fair to have

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