April 26, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan Patrick dives into the Falcons' shocking pick of QB Michael Penix Jr. as the eighth overall pick. NFL Network Host Rich Eisen joins Dan to give his firsthand account of Draft Night in Detroit. Plus, Dan reacts to the Nuggets taking a 3-0 series lead on the Lakers.
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your team is the focal point the day after the
first day of the draft, your team either did something
really really well or did real something really really controversial,
come on down, Atlanta Falcons, because you're the lead story today.
As you take Michael Pennix Junior, the third nobody, Nobody
(02:24):
had them sniffing a quarterback at number eight, and why
would you you just spent one hundred million dollars guaranteed
on Kirk Cousins. You're locked in with him the next
three years. It's a four year deal. You're locked in
for three years with Kirk Cousins. And you take Michael
Pennix junior surprise, Patriots taking Drake May. Penix goes to
(02:48):
the Falcons, JJ McCarthy to Minnesota, Bownicks to Denver. I
told you on Monday, my sore said six quarterbacks first round.
I just didn't know it'd be six in the first
fifteen picks.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's what it turned out to be. So we'll dissect that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You have the NFL Draft Rounds two and three coming
up later on today, and tonight Bucks, Pacers, Clippers, mAbs, Timberwolves,
and the Suns. Magic blow out the Caves seventy six
ers in controversial fashion, handle the Knicks literally handle the Knicks,
and the Knucks Nuggets up three to zero on the Lakers.
(03:23):
We'll talk about that as well. All right, Seaton Pole,
question our one is going to be.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, do you want to start with a more minor topic?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, that's well, I guess it's sort of a lead,
but it's not NFL Draft related.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Okay, did Joel Embiid have a good night last night.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Okay, I'm gonna say that for later because it's hard
to have a bad night if you score fifty. Feels
like Joel Embiid had a bad night. And I wonder
if the NBA will look at some of these calls
and maybe some discipline here for Joel embi Okay, what else?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Part two of them way is people when using the
word literally, are knowingly use it wrong or don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
To use it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, when I said that the seventy six ers literally
handled the nigs, they you were correct?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was correct.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, because Joel Embiid had.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
His hands on the knicks most of the night, so
he literally handled them.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I heard an analysts say this morning, quote on literally
one leg and bid dropped fifty points. I didn't watch
all the game. I was watching the draft, but I
saw two legs out there. That's that's the example.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Figuratively, Okay, I walked by you when I heard you
say that, you go, no, it's not literally.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I go figuratively, yes.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Right, Like let's say Embiid like hurt his knee and
hopped on one leg for the like the last game
winning basket literally on one leg, because there would be
that would be example.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well somebody will say, man, he was literally on fire,
and I go, oh my god, whoa whoa blanket?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, fire extinguished?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Put it out. Yeah, all right, what do you have
for the draft?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The Falcons are dot dot dot setting up the future
or blowing it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, now when I thought of this and I was
reminded of this, and it was hey, Packers, they took
Jordan Love and we see how that worked out. Okay,
I still don't think it was the right pick at
the time. So they got Jordan Love. He's turned out
to be a good quarterback. Maybe he's going to be
(05:30):
a great quarterback. But you sat him for three years.
You didn't help out Aaron Rodgers, who was still peak
Aaron Rodgers. You got your future quarterback. But what did
you do to the present day quarterback? And that is
you maybe robbed him of an opportunity to get an
offensive player. Was Cede Lamb available in that draft?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
At the twenty twenty draft, the Packers traded up, they
could have had players like they could have trade up
a little bit more and had justin Jefferson. They could
have taken. They could have traded down and got Michael
Pittman Junior.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They could have.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Got players like that Te Higgins. Good receivers were on
the board.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, so they could have helped out Aaron Rodgers. But
we can say now after the fact, because we watched
Jordan Love certainly the second half of the season might
have been the best quarterback in the NFL. Hey, it
worked out, But did it work out because Aaron Rodgers
wasn't helped out right there in the moment. So you
are planning for the future while ignoring the present, and
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then you look at what the Falcons did. All right,
so you could use some defense, and you decide you're
gonna bring in Michael Pennix Junior. I got a quarterback
that I'm locked up for three years. I got one
hundred million guaranteed, and he's coming off Achilles surgery. First
of all, I wouldn't have signed him. Second of all,
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if I knew that I was gonna be in love
with Michael Pennix Junior, and I could have gotten him
because nobody else was going to go up that high.
Now I know teams have said, hey, Seattle was gonna
go up Denver tried to go up. The Raiders tried
to go up? How high did you try to go up?
Because I was told probably the Jets were open for
(07:10):
business if you wanted to move up there. Nobody had
Atlanta taking Michael Pennox. Now I told you he was rising,
I didn't know he was rising that high. And you
had some teams who truly fell in love with him,
literally fell in love with him after they saw that
his attention to detail in how he approaches the game
(07:30):
and what football means to him. But here is the commissioner,
Roger Goodell making the announcement, and listen to the reaction.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
We're the eighth pick in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft.
The Lnflcons select Michael Pennix, junior quarterback Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now that's the Detroit crowd, I mean, imagine the Falcons crowd.
It's like, wait, wait, did.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We trade the pick? No?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No, no, no, you guys have the pick and you
took Michael Pennock's junior yes, Ston.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
How long does it take after you make a pick
like that where you're.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Like, yeah, we got him, we got our guy.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, yes, everybody, yeah, we shocked the one like no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
See, here's what we're thinking where you have to start
explaining yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, no, no, mister Blake, See this is what we're doing. Okay,
let me explain this.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
When the owner is in the war room and he
looks confused, and you have some of his lieutenants and
they're trying to explain to him, Hey, we you know
you could see the gestures, hand gestures. You don't know
what they're saying. No, no, no, we And then we
got to and because of this we got Arthur. Blank's
got to be going, Wait, I'm spending one hundred million
(08:45):
dollars on Kirk Cousins coming off Achilles surgery and we
just drafted his replacement.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Explain this to me like I'm a child.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Wait a minute, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, toud So you're saying he had a blank expression
on his Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're okay, all right, I'm gonna be a blue and
early blue pond a little bit.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Here is the Falcons GM Terry Fontina about the pick
for the future.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Kirk Cousins is our quarterback. We're very excited about Kirk,
very excited about this team. And Michael Pennix is we're
talking about the future. The draft is you look at
the future and you look at big picture. But we
are very excited about that quarterback room. And again Kirk
is our quarterback, but adding Michael Penix is thinking about
(09:32):
the future.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I don't want to wait three years. The NFL
was now now no you can plan. But are you
trying to tell me that Michael Pennix Junior will be
a quarterback that you must have and and he'll top
any other quarterback candidate prospect that you might have the
opportunity to draft over the next three years. There's a
(09:56):
lot of quarterbacks every year. Look at this year, a
lot of quarterbacks. Not everybody's gonna work out. But you're
gonna wait now if you drafted him because you don't
know if Kirk Cousins is going to be playing, then
I'm going to put that on you that why did
you sign him in the first place and you're gonna
wait three years. Yes, it worked out for the Packers,
(10:19):
but you could have still armed Aaron Rodgers with somebody offensively,
a wide receiver, and they never did that while he
was there. It's Kirk Cousins. That's a winnable division and
you got a lot of talent and this might be
the sneaky team this year, but I think you did
(10:40):
Kirk Cousins dirty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Here is Terry Fontea the Falcons GM on how Kirk
Cousins reacted to the draft choice.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Questions for Terry or Rain whichever one of you called
Kirk when you were on the clock and you tell
me about it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
What's his reaction?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Well, that's a private ooh and yeah, share that And
reactions are pretty private, right, yeah, you know he got
called in the clock obviously because of the sensitive time
with the issues of what you got going on. 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 whatever the case
(11:18):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, if it was a great reaction, would they have
told us that, Oh my god? You know what when
Kirk hurd, he's like, yes, man, I love that guy.
Can't wait for him to take my job. Of course, Kirk.
By the way it was reported.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
He was stunned.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Now, I can be stunned, you know when you see
somebody and you go, oh my god, I'm stunned, or
you can go I'm stunned in a bad way. What
the hell are we doing? Why am I here?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Seton, Yeah, you know, obviously reactions to a draft pic
this nature or a sensitive and a price.
Speaker 13 (12:02):
Yeah, you just brought him in, You just signed him.
You just gave him one hundred million dollars. And oh yeah,
by the way, we're drafting a quarterback right now? Why
what the hell you just gave me a hundred million
that you just brought me in.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Of course I'm going to be reacting.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Kirk Cousins. If you signed him for two years, then
I get it. I mean I sort of can't. I
can get it, and I like Panix, But could I
have gotten him later? Could I have traded down? Was
that the guy you truly wanted? And it's three years
down the road and a guy coming off Achilles, Like,
(12:37):
none of this sinks up for me. First of all,
I wouldn't have paid Kirk that money. He's thirty five
coming off Achille surgery. Yeah, I think he's a really
good quarterback. But I wouldn't have paid that money to
him at this time. And you whiffed on Desmond Ritter.
He wasn't ready to play. You've tried kind of a
(12:59):
missmash of quarterbacks there, and then you draft a quarterback
who won't be able to help you for a couple
of years, and you got skill position players right now
ready to go. So and and by the way, you
also passed on Bill Belichick as your head coach.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Consistent. Yeah, how's the last couple of months gone?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Mister Kraft told us to go with a quarterback here
with this picks, and you know, we listened to him.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He recommended wead.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So the first seven picks kind of what we thought
was going to happen, at least what I thought was
going to happen. I had, let's see, Caleb Jaden, Drake May.
Drake May was in the mix. He was going to
be a top you know, three or four pick there.
I thought Arizona, if they didn't blow him away, would
(13:52):
stay with Marvin Harrison. I was told initially, which I
told you on Monday, Joe Alt would be with the Chargers.
Elik Neighbors. I said that I thought the JJ McCarthy.
Stuff was a smoke screen, and I thought Minnesota was
going to get him. I thought they were going to
be able to stay where they wore eleven. Well, they
decided that they needed to move up one slot because
(14:14):
the Jets were open for business at ten, and they
went up and took their pick. I thought the Bears
did a wonderful job at Donza from Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Bow Nick's going to Denver. I'm like, okay, so that's
the guy you want. Is that the guy you had
to settle for? Because I'm sure Sean Payton's going to go, Hey,
that's the guy we wanted. So if you could have
had Jaden Daniels or Drake may or Caleb Williams, that's
your guy. Can I see your draft board, coach, because
(14:45):
now this is on Sean Payton. Can't blame this on
anybody else. Can't say a previous regime. This is your guy,
rookie contract. Now you've got to make some magic here.
I was surprised bo Nicks went that hime he went
in the first round, but I was surprised that he was.
You know that we had six quarterbacks taken in the
(15:06):
first fifteen picks that surprised me.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yes, Marvin, sorry, But to go back to the Falcons,
what does what needs to happen for Michael Pennix in
order to say, hey, this is a great pick for
the for the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Well, he gets to sit. This is what you say.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Hey, it'll be an honor and a privilege to sit
behind and learn from a professional like Kirk Cousins. And
when I get my time, I hope it's the right time,
and I hope that Kirk is able to, you know,
play high end quarterback like we expect him to, and
I'll be learning from him all along the way. Like
you can say all the right things here, but still
(15:45):
it comes back to if I'm Michael Pennix, I'm gonna
sit for three years, and if Kirk cousins play is
healthy now, they can always bench him. But I think
you're locked into three of those four years financially, Yes, Boon.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
And I know we're trying to compare this lightly to
Jordan Love and the Packers. Jordan Love is twenty one
years old when he's drafted by the Packers. He's just
he's turning twenty five. Michael Pennix turns twenty four before
this season. So three years from now he'll be twenty seven.
Let's say all goes well and he sits for three years.
That means Cousins plays well. You've got to make a
contract decision on him when he's twenty seven turning twenty
(16:22):
eight years old. Yeah, Love is in a different category
two and a half years younger.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, but you still had to sit him, and then
he got to play, And now you're gonna have to
spend probably forty five to fifty million dollars on him.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now he's he's younger.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But here's Pennix, who's going to be twenty seven when
maybe he gets that opportunity. By the way, over under
for the Falcons. Before we take a break, rich Eisen
will join us this according to DraftKings over under Todd
nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Bloop, woh bloop. I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What Yeah, I'll have some over unders on some other teams,
including Todd's Broncos. By the way, the Chiefs, I had
to laugh when I go, okay, wait, the Bills are trading.
Bills shouldn't be trading with the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
At what point did they sell their soul to just
keep getting this lucky.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Like, what the hell? Wait?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Wait, you just got one of the fastest guys in
the history of the sport and wide receiver, Xavier Worthy
out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Even if you don't want him, just draft them so
he doesn't go there.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
No, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Like, this guy's blazing fast.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Don't let the Chiefs get up. Can you imagine mahomes
Is going? Wait?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Wait, are we really getting this guy?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He can make anybody better?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Pulling that pick bothers me more than the Falcons pick.
You do not trade and give the choice of wide
receivers to the Chiefs who need another wide receiver. Your
goal is to get past the Chiefs. They're the only
team you shouldn't trade you Your goal is to get
a receiver.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
The Bills passed on three different receivers by trading down
twice and gave the best available to the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Crazy tanking. Yes, great, well, all right? Rich Isisen will
join us on loan from NFL Network. We'll check in
with the Falcons a little bit later on Lewis Riddick
of the Mothership and Ross Tucker. So it's a busy
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
More Over, unders, According to DraftKings, I gave you the
Falcons nine and a half. I don't think it changed
after last night. But we have the Texans, Patriots, Vikings, Chiefs, Broncos.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
They're over unders. We'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We did find somebody who had the Falcons taking Michael
Pennix Junior eighth overall in his mock draft. Hilt join
us coming up at the top of the hour. Joining
us now is the star of NFL Networks coverage of
the draft last night. The Rich Eisen Show on Roku
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like Rich. Well, I's start with the Falcons there, Rich,
did the Falcons have a good night last night?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I have no idea the Falcons GM did a mock draft?
Is that who you have?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
On later now?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I found a reporter who had Michael Pennix Junior going
to the Falcons and he came out on April fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So it's a.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Head scratcher to say the least, Dan that they would
sign Kirk Cousins to a Monster contract. Owe him ninety
million bucks over the next two years, and then gets
somebody who clearly is going to be a starting quarterback
(20:58):
well before Kirk Cousins plan to retire as an Atlanta
Falcon could be realized. So it's a wild scenario done
this now twenty one drafts eighteen in person. Never seen
anything like this one, Never seen anything like it because
we're always told by front offices, don't judge us on
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our entire off season until you get to the draft.
You can't judge everybody just on free agency. Let's see
what the draft looks like. That is definitely something that
Dallas Cowboys would tell every single fan that they have.
And I don't recall a time where a team goes
and signs a quarterback, a veteran, to a contract that large,
(21:42):
with a no trade clause to boot and at the
same time clearly is falling in love with his replacement.
And that is truly unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What was the reaction on set I was watching and
Ian Rapaport was it's like they might there's a chance
they're they're considering Michael Pennis Junior. And I'm watching, I'm thinking, Oh,
I think he means that they're trade. Maybe somebody's trading
up to get Michael Pennix, Like why would the Falcons?
But your guy's reaction was.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, it went from a dumb and dummers you're saying
there's a chance to reality and split second like that
was wild. We were all looking at each other as
it happened, sort of like really okay, And it's one
of those moments, obviously on a broadcast where the needles
ripped off the record. But you have to also be
as respectful as possible, because you know, Michael Pennix Junior
(22:37):
didn't decide to be drafted under these circumstances in the
same way Kirk Cousins didn't decide to be drafted under
the in the same way that he was drafted in
DC just a couple of rounds later after the Commanders
chose a quarterback second. Overall, that's the only moment that
could even be remotely close to something like this in
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the twenty you know some years that I've been fortunate
to have the chair that's the Cousin's been involved in
both where he was the other quarterback in but the
first quarterback wasn't a veteran signed to a monster contract.
It was a second overall selected guy in RG three.
We were all just again just knowing, all right, this
(23:19):
is the moment. But Penix is so talented he's worthy
of the eighth overall pick in the draft. I mean,
Kurt Warner thought he was better of a prospect than
Drake May and he had him, I guess, rated higher
on his draft board. If there's such a thing for
Kurt and so you have to understand why Penix is
(23:41):
being drafted eighth overall. He is worthy of that pick.
While also talking about the unique circumstances in real time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Give me the other head scratcher that jumps out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know if they're they're really well. I mean,
it depends on how JJ McCarthy performs. So if JJ
McCarthy forms well in Minnesota, has a season, if he
does get a shot to start Week one with Sam
Darnold being there, has a season that we think he
at least I could you know, I am talking through
(24:13):
a cell phone right now, is zooming with you, and
the the phone protector cover says Michigan beat everybody on it.
So obviously I'm a little biased when it comes to
JJ McCarthy. But if he gets a shot dan and
and he's got his own JJ and Justin Jefferson and
Jordan Addison and Aaron Jones and a coach and quarterback
(24:34):
coaches Josh McCown, that's set up to have him succeed,
then you're gonna look right at the Giants and go, really, okay,
you sat there at six, you stuck and you picked.
And obviously Malik Neighbors is insanely talented. Again, that's nothing
against that kid. But if Drew Locke is going to
be the Week one starter, which I expect he will
(24:55):
be now, and then Daniel Jones comes back and is
somewhat similar to the quarterback we saw prior to him
getting hurt last year, then there no doubt will be
a lot of long time listeners, first time callers from
Staten Island basically saying, what was up with you taking
a wide receiver for this quarterback group? When JJ McCarthy,
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who's dominating in Minnesota, that that that is that is
going to be a possibility for the fall. But in
terms of anyone else, I mean, nothing comes close to
Pentex being drafted by Atlanta and why a team that
does appear to be set right now to add a
big piece on defense, or trade out and get more
(25:38):
draft choices lower down to get the same defender that
they could have chosen at eight uh in the middle
of the first round. There's nothing that there's nothing close
to that that they they they didn't add something to
make their roster better last night. What they did his
plan for the future with a with a at a
position that they have already handsomely paid.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What are the Bills doing?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You know what they're doing is I think they're amassing
more picks to get lower in in a draft to
take wide receivers that they're they're equally as happy with
at the top of the second round. It is possible
that Brandon Bean bought himself a full overnight and an
(26:24):
all day to hammer something out with San Francisco, perhaps
for Brandon Ayuk as opposed to doing it on the
draft board when the Niners are figuring out what they're
doing themselves. Thirty first overall, now you can really set
to it. If there is a veteran out there that
may not be Ayuk, you can try and figure that out.
But otherwise, you know, and I know them making a
(26:48):
trade with Kansas City particularly sticks in the craw of
Bills fans. But I mean, if they were gonna get
ad and I Mitchell last night thirty second overall, and
they hopped out of that spot so the Panthers could
take the kid to get from Florida State, who verbally
said in the process, Carolina had told me they're going
(27:10):
to get me with the first pick in the second night,
And so the free football world knew who Caroline was
trading into that spot that looks includes Buffalo. So it's
what's the big deal? I guess you're only casting yourself
a fifth year of contractual control with the kid you're
drafting first up tonight, while giving you a shot to
make a blockbuster deal. That's that's pretty much what I think.
(27:31):
And maybe they also weren't interested in Xavier Worthy and
they knew the Chiefs were, and and just keep amassing picks.
Obviously for a team that made some big salary cap
decision moves on the defensive side of the ball, they
need they needed to get more kids and supplement and
second night picks in this draft isn't such a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
How would you rank the atmosphere last night in Detroit?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Awesome? Awesome, it was freezing cold. So even with all that,
a quarter of a million people coming to this spot,
you know, and it was it was lit. It was
a great atmosphere last night. And I'm keen to see
what the next two days bring because they're they're often
(28:16):
running to beat Nashville's record of six hundred thousand people,
and Nashville at least had, you know, lower broadways so
people could step in and out of outstanding establishments to
sample the draft. This was in Cadillac Square, so and
it was really you couldn't go in and out. As
a matter of fact, they closed down the entryway about
(28:39):
an hour before the draft. They basically said sorry, and
that turned into Times Square. There were kind of like
people spilling on the outskirts of the draft. It was great.
It was awesome, and tonight should be hopefully equally as lit.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How's your energy?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Oh, Dan, I appreciate you asking. My energy is great.
How's yours? Spectacular? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
What'd you think of the Penix pick?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I was told he was moving up I didn't know
that he was moving up there and that that team
and it could work out. But it's like when people say, well,
Jordan Love worked out well, did it, Because in the moment,
you didn't help Aaron Rodgers, but you did help your
future and he had a really good year. Now you
got to pay Jordan Love forty five or fifty million dollars,
(29:31):
so he could have been the right quarterback. It just
wasn't the right time for him to be the right quarterback.
And I think that's what I thought with Pennix. Now,
I never would have brought in Kirk Cousins for a
hundred million dollars. I just wouldn't have done it. With
the number of quarterbacks in this draft. Maybe you know,
I like one or I like two, but I just
(29:52):
wouldn't coming off Achilles, I just wouldn't have done He's
thirty five, and you're drafting Pennix, who's probably going to
be twenty seven by the time he gets an opportunity
to play on a regular basis. He's twenty four, you know,
Just seeing Jordan Love is now turning twenty four, I
think so.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I don't know, hih I mean, but I think you
bringing up Jordan Love's situation is no doubt what looms
over this decision. For the lack of a better phrase,
that at least Green Bay was fortunate enough to see
the year Jordan Love had before they're going to make
(30:31):
that large financial commitment to him, so they know who
they have in him. That is going to be the
question as to when Penix does get in there twenty six,
twenty seven years old, as you point out, and Atlanta
is looking at the fact that in the back end
of Penix's deal that they are, yes, four forty half
(30:52):
of a rookie contract, four forty half of a rookie contract,
and the financial gains you get by having one, and
also that is the mantra in the NFL right now,
is winning a super Bowl within a rookie contract for
a quarterback drafted as high as Penix was. They're fourfeiting
half of that. But they're looking at the back half
of that. Where I looked it up this morning, he's
(31:14):
going to cost them six and a half million dollars
over the final two years of his deal and then
a fifty year option, which is dirt cheap. So they're
looking at that. But they're also, as you pointed out,
they're not supplementing the guy they have just spent insane
generational money on and that guy shows up. He's thrown
(31:34):
out first pitches at baseball games saying I'm an Atlanta guy.
Now I'm going to retire here, and you've now robbed
him of that at whole, you know, public persona right
off the before you even he barely showed up for
the offseason workout program. And that's going to be the
question too, that he's going to have, is he's walking
through the buildings, like when did they fall in love
(31:56):
with Pennix? Was it like legitimate during the college football
playoffs and he still signed me and didn't say that
they were thinking of him? Was it during the top
thirty visit that they took to him? Was it during
a pro day? What when was it? And how come
it didn't filter to me until thirty seconds before they
(32:16):
picked him?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I mean that basically what the what the Falcons did
by calling him before they picked him is kind of
like when somebody reaches for the check and they don't
intend to pick it up, They're just doing it as
you're purchasing it, like let me, let me, let me
let me get that, you know, Like that's essentially what
they did last night. And I don't know how it's
gonna manifest.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I tell him give me the name that you're nervous
about pronouncing over the next two days.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Oh gosh, you know what, I'm just taking it one
pic at a time and hoping for the best. They
got a great crew. They spell things phonetically for me, Dan,
and that's when you also goes, what do you think
of this one? Daniel? You know that's when you do
one of those. You releean on Clad or Schrager or
Charles Davis. And I appreciate you mentioning the run Saint
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Jude dot org slash run rich rond to donate any dollar,
any penny matters for Saint Jude. So I appreciate you
doing that too. And I appreciate the video you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Shot and you're welcome, Paul, and.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
You you know you used it was it was fun
on your set and you used a prop which you
know it was legal in this part of the NFL.
So I appreciate it, Dan much.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Have fun later today and tonight. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
As always.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's Rich Eisen, host of NFL Network The Rigeison Show.
You can see that on rokoup and you can take
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Play the day coming up. And then at the top
of the hour, we actually found somebody in his mock
draft who had the Falcons taking Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Wow back after this.
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Check this out.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Panthers just in the right position. They go the other way,
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bounce out front.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
Its Stephen Lords and the Panthers.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Take a four to lead.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
Stevin Lords Hay the puck come out front and he
wasted no time.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
He jams at past fast Levski and the Panthers take
a four to lead.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Panthers are winning the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
That's courtesy at five sixty q.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
A m.
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Tough being a play by play guy, certainly for hockey.
And you've been doing it all season long, and now
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There sounded like he was losing his voice a little bit,
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(35:38):
morning Ken, how's your day?
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Speaker 7 (36:49):
Said, Okay, all right now, but with all due respects,
you don't know what you're talking about. Wait, he didn't
get a chance to talk about the falcons, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I thought he was done.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
No, no, he said, before I talk about the falcons.
I mean he had a nice little preamble full of compliment.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
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Speaker 2 (37:17):
Now when it comes to the falcons, you don't know
what you're talking.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
But thank you for your contributions. That being said, you
were out of your mind if you think.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Buddha in San Francisco is back, Hi Buddha, no.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
Body, Hey, thanks for calling DP. Happy Friday, boys, Uh, Dan,
this is literally one of the best days of the year.
All the lies, blah blah, sources, rumors, insiders, and all
the player hype is over. Reality's off set, Thank god.
I mean, it's like four to six weeks prior to
(37:53):
the draft, Dan, it's like it's brutal. Will listen to
talk radio and I imagine, I mean even do talk
radio for that matter. So Glad, it's so And also, Dan,
I wanted to say, I was so stoked to hear
that Reggie Bush got his Heisman trophy back. Just another
example that the NCAA literally doesn't know what they're doing.
And lastly, Dan, my Lakers are done.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, they're cooked. I mean, what's up with.
Speaker 14 (38:17):
Lebron and AD's press conferences?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (38:19):
I mean Ad always looks like he's a kid in
trouble in the principal's office and his dad's trying to
get him off the hooked.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Not good, thank you, Buda.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, Ad said, basically, we don't know what we're doing
out there the previous game. Well, it would help if
you did something in the fourth quarter. The Lakers try
to win games in the first half, so I'm watching
and they're expending so much energy. And meanwhile, Denver plays
at a mile high altitude in half their games, so
(38:50):
you want to get into, you know, a track meet there.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
They're like, sure, let's go, let's run and friends up
beating him again.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And Ad has played well as numbers are matching Joker
for the most part. But you can't let Porter go
off and Gordon go off and Murray go off, because
then you're not going to beat him. You know, y'all,
Kintch's going to give you twenty five, fifteen and nine.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You just know it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Just about every night. You're sort of getting that. Don't
let him go a little bit too much, you know.
The assist total is what I always look for with Joker.
But Lakers did it again. Congratulations Andrew and Washington, Hi Andrew,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Good morning Dan?
Speaker 15 (39:38):
Then happy meet Friday and thanks for taking my call. Yeah,
same thing.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Lakers are done.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I really do believe that the Ady and Lebron, you know,
marriage just needs to be blown up. I think Darwin
Ham needs to go on his way. His rotations last
night and how he set people out, it just didn't
make sense. It wasn't working. There was no continuity on
the offensive side. It's almost like, you know, you're one
of those puppets with the strings on it, and Denver's
(40:05):
doing that, Hey, let's let them go ahead and get
out to eight to Oh, let's let him have a
twelve point lead. Let's see if you can get a
twenty point lead. And then they just trudge back and
trounce us down. And so I think it's time that,
you know, the Lakers look to see what direction they
can go into because they're secondary people that they bring
in off the bench. There's a big discrepancy in talent
between when you're saying that, yeah, Michael Porter, junior, Jamal Murray,
(40:27):
Aaron Gordon, career high playoffs, you know, twenty nine points
last night. It's just getting old fiddle, and I think
that that marriage needs to go. But on the other hand,
the draft was exciting last night. Here's a few stats
from the draft. It was the first time that five
qbs were taken in the top ten. It matts the
most qbs in the first round six, Matt's the most
wide receivers in the first round of seven, and then
(40:50):
fourteen straight offensive players take and to kick off the draft,
you're telling me that the defensive players are, you know,
going to be able to play defense like they like. Well,
the teams are saying all about the offense.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
In the NFL.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
All right, well, thank you, Andrew. Have a great weekend.
The Lakers have blown a lead of twelve or more
points in each of their last four playoff games against
the Nuggets.
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This is the stant of the day.
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Also, while we're on the topic, Joe ellenbid the first
NBA player to score fifty or more in a playoff
game against the Knicks Sins Michael Jordan at fifty four
Game four, nineteen ninety three Eastern Conference Finals. Coming up
next hour, we found somebody who had the Falcons taking
Michael Pennix Junior with the eighth pick.
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your team is the focal point the day after the
first day of the draft, your team either did something
really really well or did real something really really controversial,
come on down, Atlanta Falcons, because you're the lead story today.
As you take Michael Pennix Junior, the third nobody, Nobody
(02:24):
had them sniffing a quarterback at number eight, and why
would you you just spent one hundred million dollars guaranteed
on Kirk Cousins. You're locked in with him the next
three years. It's a four year deal. You're locked in
for three years with Kirk Cousins. And you take Michael
Pennix junior surprise, Patriots taking Drake May. Penix goes to
(02:48):
the Falcons, JJ McCarthy to Minnesota, Bownicks to Denver. I
told you on Monday, my sore said six quarterbacks first round.
I just didn't know it'd be six in the first
fifteen picks.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's what it turned out to be. So we'll dissect that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You have the NFL Draft Rounds two and three coming
up later on today, and tonight Bucks, Pacers, Clippers, mAbs, Timberwolves,
and the Suns. Magic blow out the Caves seventy six
ers in controversial fashion, handle the Knicks literally handle the Knicks,
and the Knucks Nuggets up three to zero on the Lakers.
(03:23):
We'll talk about that as well. All right, Seaton Pole,
question our one is going to be.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, do you want to start with a more minor topic?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, that's well, I guess it's sort of a lead,
but it's not NFL Draft related.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Okay, did Joel Embiid have a good night last night.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Okay, I'm gonna say that for later because it's hard
to have a bad night if you score fifty. Feels
like Joel Embiid had a bad night. And I wonder
if the NBA will look at some of these calls
and maybe some discipline here for Joel embi Okay, what else?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Part two of them way is people when using the
word literally, are knowingly use it wrong or don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
To use it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, when I said that the seventy six ers literally
handled the nigs, they you were correct?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was correct.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, because Joel Embiid had.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
His hands on the knicks most of the night, so
he literally handled them.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I heard an analysts say this morning, quote on literally
one leg and bid dropped fifty points. I didn't watch
all the game. I was watching the draft, but I
saw two legs out there. That's that's the example.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Figuratively, Okay, I walked by you when I heard you
say that, you go, no, it's not literally.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I go figuratively, yes.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Right, Like let's say Embiid like hurt his knee and
hopped on one leg for the like the last game
winning basket literally on one leg, because there would be
that would be example.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well somebody will say, man, he was literally on fire,
and I go, oh my god, whoa whoa blanket?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, fire extinguished?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Put it out. Yeah, all right, what do you have
for the draft?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The Falcons are dot dot dot setting up the future
or blowing it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, now when I thought of this and I was
reminded of this, and it was hey, Packers, they took
Jordan Love and we see how that worked out. Okay,
I still don't think it was the right pick at
the time. So they got Jordan Love. He's turned out
to be a good quarterback. Maybe he's going to be
(05:30):
a great quarterback. But you sat him for three years.
You didn't help out Aaron Rodgers, who was still peak
Aaron Rodgers. You got your future quarterback. But what did
you do to the present day quarterback? And that is
you maybe robbed him of an opportunity to get an
offensive player. Was Cede Lamb available in that draft?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
At the twenty twenty draft, the Packers traded up, they
could have had players like they could have trade up
a little bit more and had justin Jefferson. They could
have taken. They could have traded down and got Michael
Pittman Junior.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They could have.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Got players like that Te Higgins. Good receivers were on
the board.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, so they could have helped out Aaron Rodgers. But
we can say now after the fact, because we watched
Jordan Love certainly the second half of the season might
have been the best quarterback in the NFL. Hey, it
worked out, But did it work out because Aaron Rodgers
wasn't helped out right there in the moment. So you
are planning for the future while ignoring the present, and
(06:29):
then you look at what the Falcons did. All right,
so you could use some defense, and you decide you're
gonna bring in Michael Pennix Junior. I got a quarterback
that I'm locked up for three years. I got one
hundred million guaranteed, and he's coming off Achilles surgery. First
of all, I wouldn't have signed him. Second of all,
(06:50):
if I knew that I was gonna be in love
with Michael Pennix Junior, and I could have gotten him
because nobody else was going to go up that high.
Now I know teams have said, hey, Seattle was gonna
go up Denver tried to go up. The Raiders tried
to go up? How high did you try to go up?
Because I was told probably the Jets were open for
(07:10):
business if you wanted to move up there. Nobody had
Atlanta taking Michael Pennox. Now I told you he was rising,
I didn't know he was rising that high. And you
had some teams who truly fell in love with him,
literally fell in love with him after they saw that
his attention to detail in how he approaches the game
(07:30):
and what football means to him. But here is the commissioner,
Roger Goodell making the announcement, and listen to the reaction.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
We're the eighth pick in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft.
The Lnflcons select Michael Pennix, junior quarterback Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now that's the Detroit crowd, I mean, imagine the Falcons crowd.
It's like, wait, wait, did.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We trade the pick? No?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No, no, no, you guys have the pick and you
took Michael Pennock's junior yes, Ston.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
How long does it take after you make a pick
like that where you're.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Like, yeah, we got him, we got our guy.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, yes, everybody, yeah, we shocked the one like no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
See, here's what we're thinking where you have to start
explaining yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, no, no, mister Blake, See this is what we're doing. Okay,
let me explain this.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
When the owner is in the war room and he
looks confused, and you have some of his lieutenants and
they're trying to explain to him, Hey, we you know
you could see the gestures, hand gestures. You don't know
what they're saying. No, no, no, we And then we
got to and because of this we got Arthur. Blank's
got to be going, Wait, I'm spending one hundred million
(08:45):
dollars on Kirk Cousins coming off Achilles surgery and we
just drafted his replacement.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Explain this to me like I'm a child.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Wait a minute, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, toud So you're saying he had a blank expression
on his Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You're okay, all right, I'm gonna be a blue and
early blue pond a little bit.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Here is the Falcons GM Terry Fontina about the pick
for the future.
Speaker 10 (09:10):
Kirk Cousins is our quarterback. We're very excited about Kirk,
very excited about this team. And Michael Pennix is we're
talking about the future. The draft is you look at
the future and you look at big picture. But we
are very excited about that quarterback room. And again Kirk
is our quarterback, but adding Michael Penix is thinking about
(09:32):
the future.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I don't want to wait three years. The NFL
was now now no you can plan. But are you
trying to tell me that Michael Pennix Junior will be
a quarterback that you must have and and he'll top
any other quarterback candidate prospect that you might have the
opportunity to draft over the next three years. There's a
(09:56):
lot of quarterbacks every year. Look at this year, a
lot of quarterbacks. Not everybody's gonna work out. But you're
gonna wait now if you drafted him because you don't
know if Kirk Cousins is going to be playing, then
I'm going to put that on you that why did
you sign him in the first place and you're gonna
wait three years. Yes, it worked out for the Packers,
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but you could have still armed Aaron Rodgers with somebody offensively,
a wide receiver, and they never did that while he
was there. It's Kirk Cousins. That's a winnable division and
you got a lot of talent and this might be
the sneaky team this year, but I think you did
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Kirk Cousins dirty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
There.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Here is Terry Fontea the Falcons GM on how Kirk
Cousins reacted to the draft choice.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Questions for Terry or Rain whichever one of you called
Kirk when you were on the clock and you tell
me about it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
What's his reaction?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Well, that's a private ooh and yeah, share that And
reactions are pretty private, right, yeah, you know he got
called in the clock obviously because of the sensitive time
with the issues of what you got going on. 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 whatever the case
(11:18):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, if it was a great reaction, would they have
told us that, Oh my god? You know what when
Kirk hurd, he's like, yes, man, I love that guy.
Can't wait for him to take my job. Of course, Kirk.
By the way it was reported.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
He was stunned.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Now, I can be stunned, you know when you see
somebody and you go, oh my god, I'm stunned, or
you can go I'm stunned in a bad way. What
the hell are we doing? Why am I here?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Seton, Yeah, you know, obviously reactions to a draft pic
this nature or a sensitive and a price.
Speaker 13 (12:02):
Yeah, you just brought him in, You just signed him.
You just gave him one hundred million dollars. And oh yeah,
by the way, we're drafting a quarterback right now? Why
what the hell you just gave me a hundred million
that you just brought me in.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Of course I'm going to be reacting.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Kirk Cousins. If you signed him for two years, then
I get it. I mean I sort of can't. I
can get it, and I like Panix, But could I
have gotten him later? Could I have traded down? Was
that the guy you truly wanted? And it's three years
down the road and a guy coming off Achilles, Like,
(12:37):
none of this sinks up for me. First of all,
I wouldn't have paid Kirk that money. He's thirty five
coming off Achille surgery. Yeah, I think he's a really
good quarterback. But I wouldn't have paid that money to
him at this time. And you whiffed on Desmond Ritter.
He wasn't ready to play. You've tried kind of a
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missmash of quarterbacks there, and then you draft a quarterback
who won't be able to help you for a couple
of years, and you got skill position players right now
ready to go. So and and by the way, you
also passed on Bill Belichick as your head coach.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Consistent. Yeah, how's the last couple of months gone?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Mister Kraft told us to go with a quarterback here
with this picks, and you know, we listened to him.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He recommended wead.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So the first seven picks kind of what we thought
was going to happen, at least what I thought was
going to happen. I had, let's see, Caleb Jaden, Drake May.
Drake May was in the mix. He was going to
be a top you know, three or four pick there.
I thought Arizona, if they didn't blow him away, would
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stay with Marvin Harrison. I was told initially, which I
told you on Monday, Joe Alt would be with the Chargers.
Elik Neighbors. I said that I thought the JJ McCarthy.
Stuff was a smoke screen, and I thought Minnesota was
going to get him. I thought they were going to
be able to stay where they wore eleven. Well, they
decided that they needed to move up one slot because
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the Jets were open for business at ten, and they
went up and took their pick. I thought the Bears
did a wonderful job at Donza from Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Bow Nick's going to Denver. I'm like, okay, so that's
the guy you want. Is that the guy you had
to settle for? Because I'm sure Sean Payton's going to go, Hey,
that's the guy we wanted. So if you could have
had Jaden Daniels or Drake may or Caleb Williams, that's
your guy. Can I see your draft board, coach, because
(14:45):
now this is on Sean Payton. Can't blame this on
anybody else. Can't say a previous regime. This is your guy,
rookie contract. Now you've got to make some magic here.
I was surprised bo Nicks went that hime he went
in the first round, but I was surprised that he was.
You know that we had six quarterbacks taken in the
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first fifteen picks that surprised me.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yes, Marvin, sorry, But to go back to the Falcons,
what does what needs to happen for Michael Pennix in
order to say, hey, this is a great pick for
the for the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Well, he gets to sit. This is what you say.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Hey, it'll be an honor and a privilege to sit
behind and learn from a professional like Kirk Cousins. And
when I get my time, I hope it's the right time,
and I hope that Kirk is able to, you know,
play high end quarterback like we expect him to, and
I'll be learning from him all along the way. Like
you can say all the right things here, but still
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it comes back to if I'm Michael Pennix, I'm gonna
sit for three years, and if Kirk cousins play is
healthy now, they can always bench him. But I think
you're locked into three of those four years financially, Yes, Boon.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
And I know we're trying to compare this lightly to
Jordan Love and the Packers. Jordan Love is twenty one
years old when he's drafted by the Packers. He's just
he's turning twenty five. Michael Pennix turns twenty four before
this season. So three years from now he'll be twenty seven.
Let's say all goes well and he sits for three years.
That means Cousins plays well. You've got to make a
contract decision on him when he's twenty seven turning twenty
(16:22):
eight years old. Yeah, Love is in a different category
two and a half years younger.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, but you still had to sit him, and then
he got to play, And now you're gonna have to
spend probably forty five to fifty million dollars on him.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now he's he's younger.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But here's Pennix, who's going to be twenty seven when
maybe he gets that opportunity. By the way, over under
for the Falcons. Before we take a break, rich Eisen
will join us this according to DraftKings over under Todd
nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Bloop, woh bloop. I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What Yeah, I'll have some over unders on some other teams,
including Todd's Broncos. By the way, the Chiefs, I had
to laugh when I go, okay, wait, the Bills are trading.
Bills shouldn't be trading with the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
At what point did they sell their soul to just
keep getting this lucky.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Like, what the hell? Wait?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Wait, you just got one of the fastest guys in
the history of the sport and wide receiver, Xavier Worthy
out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Even if you don't want him, just draft them so
he doesn't go there.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
No, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Like, this guy's blazing fast.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Don't let the Chiefs get up. Can you imagine mahomes
Is going? Wait?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Wait, are we really getting this guy?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He can make anybody better?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Pulling that pick bothers me more than the Falcons pick.
You do not trade and give the choice of wide
receivers to the Chiefs who need another wide receiver. Your
goal is to get past the Chiefs. They're the only
team you shouldn't trade you Your goal is to get
a receiver.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
The Bills passed on three different receivers by trading down
twice and gave the best available to the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Crazy tanking. Yes, great, well, all right? Rich Isisen will
join us on loan from NFL Network. We'll check in
with the Falcons a little bit later on Lewis Riddick
of the Mothership and Ross Tucker. So it's a busy
meet Friday. We're back after this. Thanks for listening. To
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
More Over, unders, According to DraftKings, I gave you the
Falcons nine and a half. I don't think it changed
after last night. But we have the Texans, Patriots, Vikings, Chiefs, Broncos.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
They're over unders. We'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We did find somebody who had the Falcons taking Michael
Pennix Junior eighth overall in his mock draft. Hilt join
us coming up at the top of the hour. Joining
us now is the star of NFL Networks coverage of
the draft last night. The Rich Eisen Show on Roku
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like Rich. Well, I's start with the Falcons there, Rich,
did the Falcons have a good night last night?
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I have no idea the Falcons GM did a mock draft?
Is that who you have?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
On later now?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I found a reporter who had Michael Pennix Junior going
to the Falcons and he came out on April fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
So it's a.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Head scratcher to say the least, Dan that they would
sign Kirk Cousins to a Monster contract. Owe him ninety
million bucks over the next two years, and then gets
somebody who clearly is going to be a starting quarterback
(20:58):
well before Kirk Cousins plan to retire as an Atlanta
Falcon could be realized. So it's a wild scenario done
this now twenty one drafts eighteen in person. Never seen
anything like this one, Never seen anything like it because
we're always told by front offices, don't judge us on
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our entire off season until you get to the draft.
You can't judge everybody just on free agency. Let's see
what the draft looks like. That is definitely something that
Dallas Cowboys would tell every single fan that they have.
And I don't recall a time where a team goes
and signs a quarterback, a veteran, to a contract that large,
(21:42):
with a no trade clause to boot and at the
same time clearly is falling in love with his replacement.
And that is truly unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
What was the reaction on set I was watching and
Ian Rapaport was it's like they might there's a chance
they're they're considering Michael Pennis Junior. And I'm watching, I'm thinking, Oh,
I think he means that they're trade. Maybe somebody's trading
up to get Michael Pennix, Like why would the Falcons?
But your guy's reaction was.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, it went from a dumb and dummers you're saying
there's a chance to reality and split second like that
was wild. We were all looking at each other as
it happened, sort of like really okay, And it's one
of those moments, obviously on a broadcast where the needles
ripped off the record. But you have to also be
as respectful as possible, because you know, Michael Pennix Junior
(22:37):
didn't decide to be drafted under these circumstances in the
same way Kirk Cousins didn't decide to be drafted under
the in the same way that he was drafted in
DC just a couple of rounds later after the Commanders
chose a quarterback second. Overall, that's the only moment that
could even be remotely close to something like this in
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the twenty you know some years that I've been fortunate
to have the chair that's the Cousin's been involved in
both where he was the other quarterback in but the
first quarterback wasn't a veteran signed to a monster contract.
It was a second overall selected guy in RG three.
We were all just again just knowing, all right, this
(23:19):
is the moment. But Penix is so talented he's worthy
of the eighth overall pick in the draft. I mean,
Kurt Warner thought he was better of a prospect than
Drake May and he had him, I guess, rated higher
on his draft board. If there's such a thing for
Kurt and so you have to understand why Penix is
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being drafted eighth overall. He is worthy of that pick.
While also talking about the unique circumstances in real time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Give me the other head scratcher that jumps out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know if they're they're really well. I mean,
it depends on how JJ McCarthy performs. So if JJ
McCarthy forms well in Minnesota, has a season, if he
does get a shot to start Week one with Sam
Darnold being there, has a season that we think he
at least I could you know, I am talking through
(24:13):
a cell phone right now, is zooming with you, and
the the phone protector cover says Michigan beat everybody on it.
So obviously I'm a little biased when it comes to
JJ McCarthy. But if he gets a shot dan and
and he's got his own JJ and Justin Jefferson and
Jordan Addison and Aaron Jones and a coach and quarterback
(24:34):
coaches Josh McCown, that's set up to have him succeed,
then you're gonna look right at the Giants and go, really, okay,
you sat there at six, you stuck and you picked.
And obviously Malik Neighbors is insanely talented. Again, that's nothing
against that kid. But if Drew Locke is going to
be the Week one starter, which I expect he will
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be now, and then Daniel Jones comes back and is
somewhat similar to the quarterback we saw prior to him
getting hurt last year, then there no doubt will be
a lot of long time listeners, first time callers from
Staten Island basically saying, what was up with you taking
a wide receiver for this quarterback group? When JJ McCarthy,
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who's dominating in Minnesota, that that that is that is
going to be a possibility for the fall. But in
terms of anyone else, I mean, nothing comes close to
Pentex being drafted by Atlanta and why a team that
does appear to be set right now to add a
big piece on defense, or trade out and get more
(25:38):
draft choices lower down to get the same defender that
they could have chosen at eight uh in the middle
of the first round. There's nothing that there's nothing close
to that that they they they didn't add something to
make their roster better last night. What they did his
plan for the future with a with a at a
position that they have already handsomely paid.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What are the Bills doing?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You know what they're doing is I think they're amassing
more picks to get lower in in a draft to
take wide receivers that they're they're equally as happy with
at the top of the second round. It is possible
that Brandon Bean bought himself a full overnight and an
(26:24):
all day to hammer something out with San Francisco, perhaps
for Brandon Ayuk as opposed to doing it on the
draft board when the Niners are figuring out what they're
doing themselves. Thirty first overall, now you can really set
to it. If there is a veteran out there that
may not be Ayuk, you can try and figure that out.
But otherwise, you know, and I know them making a
(26:48):
trade with Kansas City particularly sticks in the craw of
Bills fans. But I mean, if they were gonna get
ad and I Mitchell last night thirty second overall, and
they hopped out of that spot so the Panthers could
take the kid to get from Florida State, who verbally
said in the process, Carolina had told me they're going
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to get me with the first pick in the second night,
And so the free football world knew who Caroline was
trading into that spot that looks includes Buffalo. So it's
what's the big deal? I guess you're only casting yourself
a fifth year of contractual control with the kid you're
drafting first up tonight, while giving you a shot to
make a blockbuster deal. That's that's pretty much what I think.
(27:31):
And maybe they also weren't interested in Xavier Worthy and
they knew the Chiefs were, and and just keep amassing picks.
Obviously for a team that made some big salary cap
decision moves on the defensive side of the ball, they
need they needed to get more kids and supplement and
second night picks in this draft isn't such a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
How would you rank the atmosphere last night in Detroit?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Awesome? Awesome, it was freezing cold. So even with all that,
a quarter of a million people coming to this spot,
you know, and it was it was lit. It was
a great atmosphere last night. And I'm keen to see
what the next two days bring because they're they're often
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running to beat Nashville's record of six hundred thousand people,
and Nashville at least had, you know, lower broadways so
people could step in and out of outstanding establishments to
sample the draft. This was in Cadillac Square, so and
it was really you couldn't go in and out. As
a matter of fact, they closed down the entryway about
(28:39):
an hour before the draft. They basically said sorry, and
that turned into Times Square. There were kind of like
people spilling on the outskirts of the draft. It was great.
It was awesome, and tonight should be hopefully equally as lit.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How's your energy?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Oh, Dan, I appreciate you asking. My energy is great.
How's yours? Spectacular? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:03):
What'd you think of the Penix pick?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I was told he was moving up I didn't know
that he was moving up there and that that team
and it could work out. But it's like when people say, well,
Jordan Love worked out well, did it, Because in the moment,
you didn't help Aaron Rodgers, but you did help your
future and he had a really good year. Now you
got to pay Jordan Love forty five or fifty million dollars,
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so he could have been the right quarterback. It just
wasn't the right time for him to be the right quarterback.
And I think that's what I thought with Pennix. Now,
I never would have brought in Kirk Cousins for a
hundred million dollars. I just wouldn't have done it. With
the number of quarterbacks in this draft. Maybe you know,
I like one or I like two, but I just
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wouldn't coming off Achilles, I just wouldn't have done He's
thirty five, and you're drafting Pennix, who's probably going to
be twenty seven by the time he gets an opportunity
to play on a regular basis. He's twenty four, you know,
Just seeing Jordan Love is now turning twenty four, I
think so.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I don't know, hih I mean, but I think you
bringing up Jordan Love's situation is no doubt what looms
over this decision. For the lack of a better phrase,
that at least Green Bay was fortunate enough to see
the year Jordan Love had before they're going to make
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that large financial commitment to him, so they know who
they have in him. That is going to be the
question as to when Penix does get in there twenty six,
twenty seven years old, as you point out, and Atlanta
is looking at the fact that in the back end
of Penix's deal that they are, yes, four forty half
(30:52):
of a rookie contract, four forty half of a rookie contract,
and the financial gains you get by having one, and
also that is the mantra in the NFL right now,
is winning a super Bowl within a rookie contract for
a quarterback drafted as high as Penix was. They're fourfeiting
half of that. But they're looking at the back half
of that. Where I looked it up this morning, he's
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going to cost them six and a half million dollars
over the final two years of his deal and then
a fifty year option, which is dirt cheap. So they're
looking at that. But they're also, as you pointed out,
they're not supplementing the guy they have just spent insane
generational money on and that guy shows up. He's thrown
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out first pitches at baseball games saying I'm an Atlanta guy.
Now I'm going to retire here, and you've now robbed
him of that at whole, you know, public persona right
off the before you even he barely showed up for
the offseason workout program. And that's going to be the
question too, that he's going to have, is he's walking
through the buildings, like when did they fall in love
(31:56):
with Pennix? Was it like legitimate during the college football
playoffs and he still signed me and didn't say that
they were thinking of him? Was it during the top
thirty visit that they took to him? Was it during
a pro day? What when was it? And how come
it didn't filter to me until thirty seconds before they
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picked him?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I mean that basically what the what the Falcons did
by calling him before they picked him is kind of
like when somebody reaches for the check and they don't
intend to pick it up, They're just doing it as
you're purchasing it, like let me, let me, let me
let me get that, you know, Like that's essentially what
they did last night. And I don't know how it's
gonna manifest.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I tell him give me the name that you're nervous
about pronouncing over the next two days.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Oh gosh, you know what, I'm just taking it one
pic at a time and hoping for the best. They
got a great crew. They spell things phonetically for me, Dan,
and that's when you also goes, what do you think
of this one? Daniel? You know that's when you do
one of those. You releean on Clad or Schrager or
Charles Davis. And I appreciate you mentioning the run Saint
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Jude dot org slash run rich rond to donate any dollar,
any penny matters for Saint Jude. So I appreciate you
doing that too. And I appreciate the video you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Shot and you're welcome, Paul, and.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
You you know you used it was it was fun
on your set and you used a prop which you
know it was legal in this part of the NFL.
So I appreciate it, Dan much.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Have fun later today and tonight. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
As always.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's Rich Eisen, host of NFL Network The Rigeison Show.
You can see that on rokoup and you can take
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Play the day coming up. And then at the top
of the hour, we actually found somebody in his mock
draft who had the Falcons taking Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Wow back after this.
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Panthers just in the right position. They go the other way,
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Speaker 11 (34:33):
Take a four to lead.
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wasted no time.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
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all right, I'll see what I can do that being.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Said, Okay, all right now, but with all due respects,
you don't know what you're talking about. Wait, he didn't
get a chance to talk about the falcons, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
I thought he was done.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
No, no, he said, before I talk about the falcons.
I mean he had a nice little preamble full of compliment.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
If he if he had done that whole preamble and
then absolutely hammered you on search of me, God, that
would have just been the best.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Now when it comes to the falcons, you don't know
what you're talking.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
But thank you for your contributions. That being said, you
were out of your mind if you think.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Buddha in San Francisco is back, Hi Buddha, no.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
Body, Hey, thanks for calling DP. Happy Friday, boys, Uh, Dan,
this is literally one of the best days of the year.
All the lies, blah blah, sources, rumors, insiders, and all
the player hype is over. Reality's off set, Thank god.
I mean, it's like four to six weeks prior to
(37:53):
the draft, Dan, it's like it's brutal. Will listen to
talk radio and I imagine, I mean even do talk
radio for that matter. So Glad, it's so And also, Dan,
I wanted to say, I was so stoked to hear
that Reggie Bush got his Heisman trophy back. Just another
example that the NCAA literally doesn't know what they're doing.
And lastly, Dan, my Lakers are done.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, they're cooked. I mean, what's up with.
Speaker 14 (38:17):
Lebron and AD's press conferences?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (38:19):
I mean Ad always looks like he's a kid in
trouble in the principal's office and his dad's trying to
get him off the hooked.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Not good, thank you, Buda.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, Ad said, basically, we don't know what we're doing
out there the previous game. Well, it would help if
you did something in the fourth quarter. The Lakers try
to win games in the first half, so I'm watching
and they're expending so much energy. And meanwhile, Denver plays
at a mile high altitude in half their games, so
(38:50):
you want to get into, you know, a track meet there.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
They're like, sure, let's go, let's run and friends up
beating him again.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
And Ad has played well as numbers are matching Joker
for the most part. But you can't let Porter go
off and Gordon go off and Murray go off, because
then you're not going to beat him. You know, y'all,
Kintch's going to give you twenty five, fifteen and nine.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You just know it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Just about every night. You're sort of getting that. Don't
let him go a little bit too much, you know.
The assist total is what I always look for with Joker.
But Lakers did it again. Congratulations Andrew and Washington, Hi Andrew,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Good morning Dan?
Speaker 15 (39:38):
Then happy meet Friday and thanks for taking my call. Yeah,
same thing.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Lakers are done.
Speaker 15 (39:45):
I really do believe that the Ady and Lebron, you know,
marriage just needs to be blown up. I think Darwin
Ham needs to go on his way. His rotations last
night and how he set people out, it just didn't
make sense. It wasn't working. There was no continuity on
the offensive side. It's almost like, you know, you're one
of those puppets with the strings on it, and Denver's
(40:05):
doing that, Hey, let's let them go ahead and get
out to eight to Oh, let's let him have a
twelve point lead. Let's see if you can get a
twenty point lead. And then they just trudge back and
trounce us down. And so I think it's time that,
you know, the Lakers look to see what direction they
can go into because they're secondary people that they bring
in off the bench. There's a big discrepancy in talent
between when you're saying that, yeah, Michael Porter, junior, Jamal Murray,
(40:27):
Aaron Gordon, career high playoffs, you know, twenty nine points
last night. It's just getting old fiddle, and I think
that that marriage needs to go. But on the other hand,
the draft was exciting last night. Here's a few stats
from the draft. It was the first time that five
qbs were taken in the top ten. It matts the
most qbs in the first round six, Matt's the most
wide receivers in the first round of seven, and then
(40:50):
fourteen straight offensive players take and to kick off the draft,
you're telling me that the defensive players are, you know,
going to be able to play defense like they like. Well,
the teams are saying all about the offense.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
In the NFL.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
All right, well, thank you, Andrew. Have a great weekend.
The Lakers have blown a lead of twelve or more
points in each of their last four playoff games against
the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Stand of the day, stand of a day, stant.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Out of to day, stant.
Speaker 10 (41:18):
Out to day.
Speaker 15 (41:20):
This is the stant of the day.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Also, while we're on the topic, Joe ellenbid the first
NBA player to score fifty or more in a playoff
game against the Knicks Sins Michael Jordan at fifty four
Game four, nineteen ninety three Eastern Conference Finals. Coming up
next hour, we found somebody who had the Falcons taking
Michael Pennix Junior with the eighth pick.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Overall, have that for you? Coming up?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
More phone calls as well on this Meet Friday. Gang's
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