Rapp had a couple sips on the green

"easily a top 5 arm in the NFL Today" Bold

@AnvarAminjanov

20 күн бұрын

Herbert not penix

Nothing says entertainment like Ian Rapaport

@arlieferguson7442

20 күн бұрын

“Back to golf”

A ton of back slapping thyself today.

@pxrays547

20 күн бұрын

Ian has very flexible shoulders, so he can do this quite well.

@blakekeane5507

20 күн бұрын

Yes, and he's salty as the black sea.

Was that an Ian Rapoport interview or just Tom talking the whole time?

The fact is that Penix might be a real challenge to Cousins. But that’s really going to stir up controversy nobody really needed.

The idea of drafting a QB to replace a starter is fine. But Jordan Love was 20 years old with 2 years of college experience and obvious untapped potential. Penix is 24, has played 6 years of college football and is likely near his ceiling.

@syminite1

21 күн бұрын

If you get your franchise qb it will be all worth it.

@Whiskey61

20 күн бұрын

@@syminite1 OK, then do it the correct way with a young QB with upside. Do you not understand that Penix is probably at his ceiling which is not a top 15 NFL QB?

@blackheart8353

20 күн бұрын

@@Whiskey61 hard to say when we have never seen him play a down in the NFL

@jonathanruiz7877

20 күн бұрын

What about trying to win a superbowl?!

@Whiskey61

20 күн бұрын

@@blackheart8353 Not really when he has 6 years of college tape.

“We’ll never be picking 8th again…”. LOL

@craigpridemore7566

20 күн бұрын

Yep. If this is how they do business, they're being 'overly optimistic'.

@AnvarAminjanov

20 күн бұрын

Trade down would’ve been smart

4:23 'Jordan Love looks pretty good' but the Packers, by 'planning for the future' WASTED 2 - count 'em 2! - MVP seasons not taking a 'win now' attitude. Having a 10 year plan is great in the business world but if your goal is to WIN A SUPER BOWL, sometimes you've got to go all in (and not how Jerry does it). They let their loyal fan base down by not giving Aaron a chance for a 2nd SB before he left GB. I feel that way and I'M A LIONS FAN!

Who was collapsing the pocket in the title game? I don't recall Alabama being there

This one was so funny. Papoport: The Penix pick is good because Cousins is mid at best.

Did he just say Alabama was collapsing Penix’s pocket in the National Championship? Rich, fire this guy immediately.

I think that "Jordan Love being a good pick" is revisionist history. Who knows if they had drafted a 1st round OLineman, a better receiver, a Safety etc. Maybe they wouldve gotten over the hump against the Niners or Tampa and won a SB. Is it better just to always be good enough to go to the playoffs and not win (or even go to) a Super Bowl? Or would it be better to go all in, win a Super Bowl and then maybe have a few bad years? Also, the Packers being bad last year wouldve left them in line to draft one of the QBs this year (GB easily couldve been 7-10 this year and had that #8 pick the Falcons had). So you never know when you may be in line to draft a young QB.

@johnbox271

20 күн бұрын

Agreed. Rogers was MVP in 2020 and 2021. The Packers could have moved up one spot and got Brandon Aiyuk or just picked Tee Higgins... or move up boldly and get Justin Jefferson. Would these players have helped the Packers reach the SB... unknown, but what is for sure Jordan Love offered no help.

@timothyfitzgerald3168

20 күн бұрын

@@johnbox271 and how many top 15 quarterbacks have been drafted since then and thrown away? So with LeFleur being a quality offensive coach, they could have possibly found a Baker type reclamation project. I don't think Mac Jones is very good, but hey he was good enough to go to the playoffs when he actually had an offensive coordinator! And the Packers could have got him for ham sandwich this offseason🤷‍♂️

@benoitwaffle5439

20 күн бұрын

The odds of any of the QBs in this draft being better than Jordan Love are minimal. Caleb Williams could be great, but what Jordan Love did with that young OL and those young pass catchers is not something that happens with any degree of regularity. He worked out. It was a good pick. Other than Chicago, I would think all those other five teams who drafted an early QB would have happily swapped it for Love. You also can't play the alternative as though that pick would have hit, and hit immediately. If they draft OL, it could have been Isaiah Wilson. He was the next one taken. Would a rookie Xavier McKinney have been a difference? It is Green Bay, they weren't taking a WR in round one.

Rap sheet somehow someway is on falcons payroll or jus tryna maintain access because there’s no spin that makes this fine. Either Kirk plays poorly and they wasted 100M, or he plays well stays for several years and they never get the benefit of seeing Penix play on his rookie contract let alone the fact he’ll be 27-28 by the time he takes over. This is nothing like Jordan love outside of the fact that Penix plays quarterback

Is Cousins the highest paid QB? I thought it was Burrows at 55mil...67 is wild...He gets right under 4 million per game

@TheDd4477

20 күн бұрын

That's if he's playing the game. Kirk making the 👜 from the rehab room 😅

Ian stopped by the 19th hole for a hot minute.

Justin Herbert 😂

Zeke is worthless, and the Cowboys brought him back?? What kind of a Mickey Mouse outfit are they running down there in Dallas?

@johnbox271

20 күн бұрын

"How 'bout them Cowboys"

People were surprised when the 49ers drafted aiyuk in the first round a few years ago…. Look where he’s at now lol top 5 receiver in the league. If they waited until the 2nd round, slick Rick would’ve been gone

Rapsheet!!!

Everyone has to stop trying to comparing this Cousins situation to other storylines that have played out. No one has ever guaranteed that much money just to turn around and pick the same position player in the top 10 of a draft. The Falcons are a dumpster fire. Arthur Blank may have founded Home Depot, but he'll be remembered for owning the biggest Super Bowl choke of all time and all of the team mis-management that has occurred since

@georgealvarez1195

20 күн бұрын

Lol NFL teams drafting rookies for positions they already paid? That neverrrr happens but hey im sure you know better than the GMs

Thats just it, they are not spending (32nd) or resigning their own. Calling bs.

It sounds like the Pats would’ve only traded 3 if they got Harbaugh to give up Herbert.

The Jet's should've drafted a QB. More long-term mistakes..,.

Nobody thinks pennix is a bad pick, what people think is bad is allocating so much of your salary cap to a qb to put in front of him with a no trade clause and front loaded contract. That money could have been used to bring in other free agents on defense. Michael pennix could possibly be better than kirk, i cant believe rappaport is supporting this. That literally put a cap on themselves and could be wasting a rookie qb contract.

@tomanderson1129

20 күн бұрын

The question I ask is this: Does the Penix selection get the Falcons any closer to the Super Bowl? They should win the NFC South with Cousins, but how do they match up with the NFC powers, ie, the Eagles, 49ers, Lions and even Green Bay? Can Atlanta even get to the NFC Championship this year or next?

@scottrowlandrowland1098

20 күн бұрын

@@tomanderson1129 no it doesn't because they used their first round pick on a player who seemingly will sit. Qbs that have made or won the superbowl on a rookie contract big ben, rodgers, Wilson, cam Newton, joe Flacco, kaperknick, mahomes, burrow and I'm sure there is more. So they are not helping kirk with a first rd blue chip player and they are hurting the franchise on kirks salary if pennix is good.

@70BTHS

20 күн бұрын

​@@scottrowlandrowland1098Exactly, name of the game in a salary cap league is resource allocation. Whether the resource is a player or money you have a set amount you can use. They are guaranteed to tie up both money and players on 1 of the few positions where only 1 person gets all the reps

Wow he must be able to drive the ball far, what a fucking hero

This was an Arthur Blank pick for sure. Last years qb play was so bad it cost Arthur Smith a job. Future now secure with Pennix. Terry Fontenot is doing anything he's told now to save his job. He also believed Desmond Ridder was the answer. Blank should have given Belichick full control and this would not have happened.

I don't get all the love and people carrying water for Cousins 🤷🏾‍♂️ it's a business and he knows that, either produce or sit down

Question for anybody: Would the Falcons be getting knocked like this if they drafted McCarthy instead of Penix?

@prestonrowe5157

21 күн бұрын

Yes

@joerose8702

21 күн бұрын

Absolutely

@bryantvia4478

20 күн бұрын

Yep though not as much. There is a difference b/c the age is so much lower. And McCarthy needs time to develop opposed to being ready to play. They should have found a stop-gap starter instead of paying a fortune for Cousins if they intended to draft Penix.

Ian has to make it sound like the Falcons taking Penix was a good idea so the Falcons don't get their panties in a knot and freeze him out of info.

@Unknown17

20 күн бұрын

The other day on some sports talk show--I don't remember--someone said it's a bad deal because you either want to win NOW, and so you surround Cousins with the best players possible, or you're building for the future, so you draft another quarterback instead. What the Falcons are doing is trying to split the difference. It's a kind of "have your cake and eat it, too" philosophy that rarely works in practice. And, yes, Cousins will be fine. He has no fear of Penix. BUT he MUST be thinking, "What could we have gotten INSTEAD of Penix that would help me win NOW?" I mean, if I were him, I'd be secretly SUPER pissed.

@kaptainkush4351

16 күн бұрын

@@Unknown17 I think it was TJ Hoosh that said he thinks it is a scheme to prolong their job security. You can bet your right arm that Kirk was praying for forgiveness regarding his language the night of the draft!

For 2025 season, Dallas has Kirk Cousins as QB and Bilichick as coach. Penix is leading the Falcons to wild card appearance. Mike McCarthy is coaching the Jets with Rodgers still at QB.

@Unknown17

20 күн бұрын

NO WAY, and I mean NO WAY would Rodgers EVER go back to working with McCarthy on any team whatsoever. Your brain must have taken a tiny choo-choo train around lollipop mountain if you think THAT'S gonna happen!

The one that has to be pissed is Penix, he will start playing at 28 yrs old, that's unfair to him

Asinine pick by the Falcons, for a myriad of reasons. The availability of every defensive player in the draft for one, and the best case scenario? Paying $100M for one year of Kirk Cousins?? 2 years of Cousins is still overpaying at $50M/year. 3 years means Penix becomes a 27 year-old rookie QB. Penix isn't a generational prospect; there's another Penix in the draft every year.

Undermining Kirk from day one..

It's pretty clear why Rapaport doesn't want to criticize the Falcons front office. He has to keep relationships with these guys to do his job, so if he comes out and says drafting Penix was stupid and he doesn't know why they did it, it hurts him personally because they're not going to want to talk to him and give him information. So he's always going to side with the front office. To everyone else, though, it's pretty clear that this was a stupid pick. And I really liked Penix. I thought he was clearly better than Drake Maye, so I wouldn't have had a problem going with him even #3 overall. But it makes no sense to spend a 1st round pick on a QB when you just signed one to a $180M contract. It's an overallocation of resources. No one's ever done it before and there's a reason for that. Because it's stupid.

All In Glory Hole.?!

@stevenkidd6761

20 күн бұрын

🤮

They can try to justify it any way they want. It still comes down to the fact that they couldn’t find a rookie RB who’s better than a guy who hasn’t lost one step, he’s lost two. But, they say, he’s a great blitz pickup player AND he can convert short yardage situations. I wouldn’t mind that except now he’s saying he’s a #1 Back and Jerry says it, too. And that’s ridiculous! So he’s gotten better at being the #1 RB than he was two seasons ago when Pollard got hurt in a Playoff game against The Forty Whiners? And he was totally ineffective?? Right……..🙄 Hopefully, at least, he’ll be running behind a much better OL. But that’s FAR FROM GUARANTEED, especially in their first year!

Pennix age helps his maturity and that's a part of why "coaches like him". Ian's island is getting more populated. Rich has a great show, but his takes suck. Pennix almost beat Ohio State and Justin Fields while @ Indiana, pre injury. He's changed his game since.

Pennix is better than cousins it's obvious

Cousins coming off an Achilles, pay him 180 million..... Not sure about him long term, draft pennix at 8 after not 1 but 2 ACL injuries to the same knee and also has been shaky when under pressure

RAPSHEET

ian’s football takes so bad green bay situation vs atl situation not even same ball park talking about pick 26 vs 8

First!

Green Bay won zero rings after picking Jordan Love, so might it have been better to use that pick on Tee Higgins?

Ian is such a square holy cannoli

@Tony525_

20 күн бұрын

I hope this is a joke....you can't call someone a square while saying holy cannoli.

@Nbz0

20 күн бұрын

@@Tony525_ nah bro I’m dead fuckin serious, I call people squares and say holy cannoli when I’m fuckin livid bro. Please give me some space bro. Please. 🙏

@Tony525_

20 күн бұрын

@@Nbz0 square

@Nbz0

19 күн бұрын

@@Tony525_ 😡😢

Penix a left handed Herbert is crazy

@drben3582

20 күн бұрын

You're right he's better.

@Zooterman

20 күн бұрын

@@drben3582 nope

They wait too long and unnecessarily over pay their own players by letting other teams at the market. The Cowboys are a completely mismanaged franchise . The fact that they draft pretty well only drives this home more as their mismanagement causes them to be unable to take advantage of it.

Sounds like Atlanta only cares about being good and not competing for a superbowl. Sorry Falcons fans

the falcons dont have that good of a roster though, even their skill positions are kind of overrated. I don't know why everyone thinks they were going to be good. There is no guarentee they will be in the playoffs with Kirk. I wouldnt be surprised if they are drafting in the top 10 next year, for the 4th consecutive year.

@christiansmith6776

20 күн бұрын

Damn near every game the Falcons lost last year was because Ridder either threw a costly INT or fumbled. QB play was the reason we didn't win the division last year. This was a good team with a bad QB. Now hopefully we won't have to worry about QB play for a decade or so.

All this fake news comes out about prospects during the draft. Yet with Shaduer, the truth of who he is is right in front of us. Arrogant, rude, selfish, and nowhere near good enough to justify it. The absolute opposite of a leader. DO NOT TRY TO HYPE HIM UP AS A FIRST ROUND PICK. HE IS NOT THAT. Absolute garbage pocket presence, inability to read defenses, mediocre mobility outside the pocket, and far from a run threat. Am I missing something? Obviously, Deion aint trying to run the ball, so Shadeur gets big stats, we knew that would be the case from the jump. But this guy will play in the UFL and Deion can coach there and walk all over everyone as he does.

I’m out! The Delulu is too much 😂😂

That thumbnail… Did Rappaport have a stroke or does he actually smile with half his face?

Uhh..who cares what Ian Rapoport is ok with? He made the call and got it right so congrats on doing his job right. But the point is the Falcons botched this off season. Pick either Cousins or Penix. Not both. Paying Cousins was their first mistake anyway. The only success he will ever enjoy in the nfl is he conned teams into overpaying him.

👎

Rappaport doesn’t know anything about Football.

Tee Higgins isn't going anywhere. He'd be stupid to push for a trade without guaranteed $ from another team. He needs a big year to get the multi-year contract the Bengals aren't giving. Joe Burrow gets him there if he avoids injury.

A mistake that works out is still a mistake. The Falcons using their #8 pick to draft Penix, knowing they have other needs to win now is a mistake since they paid Cousins, or paying Cousins elite qb money knowing they were gonna draft his replacement at #8 is a mistake. Even if it works a mistake was made.

@ddsea98

20 күн бұрын

When Kirk goes down in Rodgers style, these guys will look like geniuses. The only mistake was paying Kirk not drafting a young QB. It's called insurance.

@bryantvia4478

20 күн бұрын

@@ddsea98 could be. what if kirk doesn't get hurt though?

Not too quick on Jordan. That is stupid Ian.

Ian is a Falcons shill

@pxrays547

20 күн бұрын

He is more versatile than that; he'll be anybody's shill, shill for access, shill for money.

I hate my falcons man. Put me out of my misery now

Atlanta actually did one of the smartest moves...normal weekend warriors can't even understand on their level....Kirk is coming off injury....he got paid the most money ever as QB salary wise just having one miracle playoff win...you have talent so secure talent with talent for the future....if Kirk goes out week 2....this pick would be the best move in the draft....Im a Niners Faithful and how we draft "Slick Rick" people won't understand either