Why the FALCONS are in for a 'RUDE AWAKENING' this season 👀 | The Exempt List | Yahoo Sports

Published 2024-05-22
Yahoo Sports NFL writer Charles McDonald is joined by The Ringer's Steven Ruiz to discuss the Atlanta Falcons' offseason and their decision to draft Michael Penix Jr. instead of a defensive player.

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All Comments (21)
  • @DravisACard
    This guy mentions kirk being a 36 year old with a bad Achilles, but says he still doesn't understand the Penix jr pick. Smh.🤦 Don't know if they're playing dumb, just to pick on the falcons, or they really are?
  • @trey1614
    All these clowns do is gaslight the Falcons
  • @elw092
    They give anybody with a 50 inch waste line a podcast looks like
  • @terryclark3973
    These 2 dudes DO NOT what the hell their talking about full stop. Vegas thinks the Falcons have the 4th best odds of making the playoffs. Clowns 🤡
  • Everybody talking bout falcons should’ve taken an edge rusher but no edge rusher went in the top ten. Ponder on that.
  • @joesears6503
    I came back to just to look at the comments 😂 cause I knew that everybody was going to chew yall guys out. We was only terrible with the pass rush and generating turnovers and still was rank 11 on defense. We was in Majority of the games that we lost and that was due to bad play calling and bad play with the Qb. If you can’t decipher that then maybe yall in the wrong field
  • @2xOGbeck
    Love how united the comments are lol. When it all works out they’ll call us geniuses. Go figure
  • @nitehawk_100
    Was a top 5 defense before Graddy Jarrett down. Then in the last 5 games there was only like 1 start playing because of all the injuries. But I'm sure you guys don't follow the team closely to know that. What's the lottery numbers going to be this weekend since you are clairvoyant to know every injury for every team and how every player will play.
  • @joeschmo5782
    The willful ignorance continues. Cool, the Falcons should've drafted someone other Penix at #8. Who? And what difference are you projecting that player to make from where you originally thought the team would finish? Also when Kirk's contract is up in 2 years, which is what it essentially is, what should the Falcons do for QB beyond that? At least be willing to answer those questions if you are going to put on the dumbfounded act.
  • Y’all boys some real haters wym falcon not supposed to have long term plans lol
  • @Jediknight4jc
    They probably would have won 10 games last season with even an average starting NFL QB.
  • Bruh shut up you pick 6 more defensive players after the first round yall just want to hear yall self talk
  • @kingshon3618
    You have to be a falcons fan to understand why they drafted a QB.
  • @BlahBlah-hv9se
    Charles McDonald sounds like he spends more time eating cheeseburgers than watching football.
  • @CJay_XD
    Falcon's Defense finished top 10 last year. The team's biggest problem was QB play. When Grady went down it left a big hole on DL so now we drafted 3-4 players We added more Offensive power. Our OLine played well also the drafted didn't have any defense players drafted top 10. All we need to do is add a CB