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The Valenti Show

What Were the Falcons Doing Taking Michael Penix Jr.? | In Football Today

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

David joins to go over the most questionable moves from last night, including the Falcons selecting QB Michael Penix Jr. with the 8th overall pick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, you're right. No winners and losers, but we do have some perception, some look at some things here. So let's start with the quarterback.

0:06.8

There was six quarterbacks taken in the first 12 picks, which was crazy last night.

0:11.8

Let's talk about a couple of them

0:13.3

that I want to focus on, and I think the first one,

0:15.4

you all know which one it is.

0:17.0

It's number eight.

0:18.3

The Falcons take Michael Pinnix Jr.

0:21.0

which was, I mean, otherworldly, it was ridiculous.

0:25.0

Cousins apparently was not alerted about the pick,

0:29.0

was both shocked and disappointed,

0:31.0

just like everyone watching the

0:32.6

draft last night the falcons gee him said if you believe in the

0:35.7

quarterback you have to take him and if he sits for four or five years that's a

0:39.6

great problem to half your thoughts on that big.

0:42.8

It's not 1975.

0:44.4

It doesn't work that way anymore.

0:45.9

And second of all, I'm not going to sit here and like bring a tiny violin out for Kirk

0:51.1

cousins, but he has a right to be annoyed. He signed there as a

0:54.8

free agent this year. This is not an established QB who's been there for 15 years

1:00.3

and is at the end of his deal. It's not even Aaron Rogers where you don't know if he's going to come back.

1:05.8

Right, because he's a malcatan.

1:07.5

A darkness retreat, whatever he's on.

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