The first half he was playing for the field goal and wasn’t risking losing the ball. I don’t agree with it, but there is at least logic to it. If the defense continued the way it was and the first, and the commanders kept shooting themselves in the foot, like they kept doing early in the third quarter, it wouldn’t have been as dumb. The second half there is literally no defending. You have a kicker you just signed who is known for not having a big leg, and you did nothing to help them get into his field goal range. Actually insanely stupid.
The TRUTH is you saw an overwhelmed Falcons QB in Washington who had 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 Fumbles (that were luckily both recovered by the Falcons) & 2 Rushes for 3 Yards. Now compare that to Jaden Daniels 3 TD, 1 INT, 16 Rushes for 127 Yards. The Falcons were OBVIOUSLY outplayed at the QB Position
@@wandameadows5736 you do understand multiple things can be true at the same time? Coach failed to help his rookie qb on his second start and failed clock management. Daniels torched our defense and we could not react. Both are true. This loss is not on penix.
Letting Washington convert multiple 3rd and 4th downs is what caused us the game. Daniels killed us in the second half. We got outscored 23-7 in the second half.
Saw Terrell celebrating a tackle like he'd singlehandedly won the game with it and then miss several more by throwing a shoulder and missing or not wrapping the carrier up. Bad tackling is a big problem for several players on this team. Celebrate after you've won or you just look stupid.
Very glad you made this video. I was screaming at the TV during both of these time-out failures by Morris. These weren't situations in which reasonable people could disagree about what to do. These were horrible, MOMENTOUS mental lapses.
I’m just getting back from the game and two things that was DEFINITELY TRUE, the non usage of those TOs and NO SPY on JD5. It was crazy. Our DE are SLOWWWWWWW. He had Grady playing some DE. Judon and Lorenzo was ice wagon slow.
Raheem didn't even learn from one half to the next. Mismanaged timeouts in the first and then doubled down on it at the end of regulation. How can your team be prepared when the coach isn't?
Tackling is painful to watch. How do the coaches "watch film" and not see how obvious and horrible it is. Raheem Morris should retire and be a motivational speaker instead of HC obviously something he would be better at
Morris is at his level of incompetence, he will Never rise any higher than this. DimWit Blank will make falcon fans pay for 2 more years of his own ineptitude .
I would personally move on, have seen nothing special from raheem and i think 75 percent or more of football fans that have played some madden would have handled the timeout situations both at thet end of the game and before halftime. I dont think he gets let go after 1 year though unfortuatley, blank doesnt seem like the type
It's unrealistic to expect Raheem to get fired in his first year. The only way I see that happening is if the Bucs lose to the Saints and we lose to the Panthers... blowing a second shot at the playoffs.
There were a lot of things that cost us but coaching did not not help. We beat ourselves a lot during this game not spying Daniels, missing tackles and managing their timeouts was big. The coaching staff didn't make any adjustments after Daniels started scrambling. I would also disagree that the mismanagement on the timeouts wouldn't be a fire able offense. The bears fired their coach and they lost multiple games this year where they mismanaged their timeouts and just time management at the end of games/end of halves.
This game wasn't as close as it seemed. In the first half Washington's penalties ended a few of thier drives. They mostly cleaned that up in the 2nd half, hence the 2 long drives and the time of possession disparity. That being said, poor clock management, lack of defensive adjustments and Washington being a better overall team cost the Falcons the game. But I see a lot of things to be excited about this team going forward.
People gotta realize bro just made his 2nd start of his career. He played amazing for that fact alone, I believe if we had won the coin toss we win the game
I wonder if Penix can improve because the misses were the same throws he missed in college. He is great, but for every great 2-3 throws, there is the 1 throw that sails on him. I think think it's timing since it the same thing he did in college.
Go after Ben Johnson and ditch Raheem. He would walk into a very good situation. If we stay with a defensive head coach, we will just cycle through OC's and hamstring the offense every few years while they get used to a new coordinator. All the successful franchises have head coaches who provide consistent offenses
Raheem through the entirety of the season has shown complete incompetence. Very similar to Arthur Smith. The falcon way is that they will give him about a 3 year leash before letting him go. It will be such a waste of Bijan Robinson and Michael Penix’s prime years.
Clock management was bad but I wouldn't put it all on that. Kicker still had a chance to win the game. Gotta make that kick. The bigger issue is the game plan to defend J. Daniels. 127 rush yards is unacceptable. They had no adjustment for his rushing in the second half. Plus the defense could not tackle anybody in the second half.
You can tell he was told not to run, let him play his game!! You did not run algeir stop trying to make players play your game let him be mobile play clock really this is football over achievement and foot on the gas the ground game helped you get there why stop he ain’t Kirt cousins be mobile man
More than the poor clock management, we gave up every 3rd and 4th down in the second half our offense never got on the field. The poor clock management was definitely huge though
Yeah, the Atlanta Falcons lost to Dan Quinn, OZ, Mariota, +😂. Atlanta is where football dies. You guys don’t have the smarts to develop a talentedrookie. That is your history, DQ developed Ryan, not Atlanta. You, Aaron, always find fault, rather than celebrate the positives. Penix is in a losing franchise. Also, Arthur Smith seems to be doing just fine. Atlantas future is still doom and gloom.
I wasn’t even considering realistically that Morris could go one and done but we might want to get a more veteran coach to not spoil our young talent next year, this was inexcusable clock work and horrible talent management all season if you could see penix had this much more physical abilities than Kirk, Kirk’s leash should’ve been shorter…. Also sign penix now to a 10yr extension lol
Who's job is it to scream in the headset at Raheem to call timeouts and throw challenge flags? Hopefully he or she is still at the airport in DC trying to book a flight and find a new job. And Raheem should be 1 and done. This was a debacle.
Given the minor role Raheem plays in the actual game you would think he could at least manage the clock. Sadly it’s time for another head coach in Flowery branch
You guys also buried Matt Ryan and Kurt Cousins and millions $. Such poor decision making. Like paying lots of money for the wrong thing, which kept the team from hiring the right ppl. Aaron, you can’t go 100% for Penix bcause you were 100% for Ridder, and so wrong. You’re shell shocked that ur plan for a cheap rookie was so wrong. Some of us tried to tell you you were wrong to go all out for Ridder.😊
@@atlsarmondand we are going to have to live with him for one more year since you don’t fire coaches after one year and Terry is going to take the fall on the sword for the coaching incompetence.
Where's the QB coach been trying to help Pennix with accuracy? Watching the game just a reminder the lack of talent on this team. 4 yrs to build this team Fontenot. Do you fire him? Most of the wins came against bad teams. Tampa is more of an outlier . Other than the Commanders game Falcs could not hang with playoff caliber teams. More talent is needed and I shiver to think Fontenot will still be in charge.
If it not for a back up corner back on commanders , michael penix would have been miserable last night. He's a rookie so it's OK for now . I don't know how you fix certain mechanics from a left handed qb who has a heck of an arm but seems to have a problem with finesse .....and with wide open receivers. He had same problem in college ....especially against the better teams but had 3 soon to be nfl wide receivers ( one - who will be , eventually, a stud) and best oline in pac 12. He has 11+ inch hands and that should be such an advantage in passing mechanics . He also has a major injury background which will prevent him to be this running qb. He has some mobility so theres that. I don't know how Cousins just fell off a cliff like he seemingly did. I just can't buy into that unless he actually talks retirement then we can go back and point to the how and when. He's 97% gone so I don't know how I feel about the qb position going forward. Again, Penix deserves benefit of doubt as its his 2nd game but I don't know.
Penix just started throwing to 1st team last week. That was a terrible situation to be in. I blame the coaches for lack of foresight. If Penix had Odunze out there, he would have made those throws in the end zone. Penix and the receivers were out of sync.
Just like I said in another post they would loose to a better team they should have left Cousins finish out the year it was wrong pulling him out he’s the one that caught them there by beating the Bucks both times.
This game was actually nearly all on the coaching staff. After doing thousands of hours of research on Hall of Fame quarterbacks I can tell you that coaching is about 50% of the game and the players performance in total only about 50%. Might sound crazy but I would challenge you to watch football going forward with that in mind and I think it won't be too long before you agree. The biggest coaching mistake by far was benching Kirk Cousins. Let me explain. Kirk had 6 starts against the league's elite defenses, only the Bears have had that many. In those 6 starts his completion % was 64.7 and his yards per attempt was 7.4. The league averages against those defenses are 52.5 and 5.4. It is very possible that Kirk was the best in the league against those teams. He didn't throw many touchdowns but it is hard to throw touchdowns when your play caller only lets you throw when you have to throw and hardly at all in the red zone. Kirk faced 5 defenses that were the quality of the Commanders and his completion % was 13.9% better than Penix with a whopping 1.6 better Y/A and a 9/4 touchdown to Int ratio. Cousins was even better in his 3 games against the defenses the quality of the Giants despite the terrible play calling. Robinson's play calling has been much improved since Penix took the reins. Against the Commanders he threw 50% on first down, 70 % on 2nd and medium, 100 % on 3rd and medium and 3rd and short and even 25% on 2nd and short. That is really setting the quarterback up for success. Who knows how much better Cousins would have been with that play calling but it would likely have been substantial. Penix had 10 bad to poor passes in this game. I don't think Cousins had 10 bad to poor passes in his two worst games combined. With all the bad play calling and the difficult schedule Kirk was still 3rd in the league in yards in a run first offense. He was the only quarterback with two receivers on a pace to 1,000 yards and he was on a pace to break his own record for most receptions by 4 different receivers. He was also on a pace to break the record for most receptions by 5 different receivers despite Pitts lack of effort. That adds up to a very impressive season. Robinson and Morris destroyed what could have been, should have been, the best offense in the league. A Cousins led offense dragged a much worst defense to a 13-4 season in 2022 and this season should have been even better with a better offensive line and better running game than Kirk had that season. But coaching is 50% of the game.
Kirk is hurt. You saw what he did against the Raiders. We probably get shut out with him at the helm in this game. Having said that, we have a terrible HC. My heart sunk when he was hired, as it had desperation all over it. You should never be in a position where games are lost by boneheaded decisions and clock management issues, and Morris does that in spades. We will be a fringe playoff team/mediocre at best with him running the show.
@@pj5491 Agree with you...that said, the pocket was pretty clean all night...which is where Cousins shines. Not sure he has the arm strength right now though to have warranted a shot.
@@pj5491 I don't think Kirk is hurt. He chased down a defensive back in August and said that's when he knew he was all right. Against the Raiders he should have had a great game against that defense but the coaching staff took the ball out of his hands until it was 3rd and long. He threw two passes that were deemed bad passes but one was going to be a completion for a first down but was tipped at the line and turned into an interception and the other one was perfectly thrown to the open spot in the zone which would have been another first down but Ray Ray didn't stop in the open spot and it looked like Kirk threw it behind him. Both "bad throws" were not his fault. The coaching staff's decision to not let Kirk participate in that game came within inches of the Falcons losing to maybe the worst team in the league. I think the reason that they took the ball out of his hands that game was because they wanted a reason to go to Penix and play with their new toy and it cost them a trip to the playoffs, no doubt about it. Under the circumstances of the schedule and the play calling Kirk had one of the top 5 seasons of any QB in the league this season.
You can tell he was told not to run, let him play his game!! You did not run algeir stop trying to make players play your game let him be mobile play clock really this is football over achievement and foot on the gas the ground game helped you get there why stop he ain’t Kirt cousins be mobile man!! Daniel’s ran down your throats not throwing running mobile qb
The Falcons organization has to be the worst in sports history:! The Kurt Cousin deal and how thete defense has been pathetic for as long as anyone can remember it showed last night they truly can't tackle or know how to wrap up a guy and bring him down"! I hope there's alot of people fired after all this and to go after Cousins and draft a quarterback in the first round and not get defensive players who can tackle and get some sacks this team was running around like they didn't know what they were doing and it's like this year in and year out"!
Thanks guys! naw seriously Penix shows promise he looked good. I might be a little worried about his injury history. A close game you guys should have won.
Nobody talking about that bs call on Deangelo Malone that’s the turning point the game was rigged my girl don’t even watch football and she was screaming time out I don’t believe Raheem didn’t know to call a time out if he would have called that time out they would’ve killed a family it’s too obvious iam done being a fan
I mean Penix missed a wide open Mooney. If he was tacked inbounds, Ra calls a TO. We have the ball at the 35 w 12 sec and a TO. That’s a play anywhere on the field to set up a better FG. I get his reasoning, but Penix missed a wide open Mooney and it’s Ra’s fault.
I remember back in 2019 when Heem was the DC, and Russell Wilson came in with Seattle and ran all over the Falcons...and he said they didn't plan for Russell"s mobility... Yeah
Raheem isn't as smart as he profess to be. He freezes up when an important call needs to be made.Eg: time outs.Not head coaching material.oh! And loose the hip hop look. You not in da club!
Quinn and Morris are both in the same camp. They are not very good for in game decisions. They are ra ra culture and team builders. When the chips are down they are not great tactician. They can not make the adjustments critical to winning. Why would u not call a timeout late in the game? My nephew is 10 and playing madden instructs u to call timeout. Football 101....just like up 25 pts in the 3rd quarter u milk the clock. Err ...too soon? Morons
Say serious black,I say forget next week and let’s get ready for next year.if penix had better chemistry with those guys we a be good.🤦🏾♂️ I think next year gone be the year.and they also need to reexamine that offensive line I’m sorry to say😩🤦🏾♂️ my opinion.
Find some hotshot kicker in the UFL and I don’t give a crap. Try to trade for Sean McVay, tired of the same old crap of “oh hey falcons have talent they can do something this year.” Get a head coach that is worth a damn and make sure you have Dale Earnhardt driving the fancy Porsche and not some 18 year old punk. For the past 5-7 years, Atlanta has been letting some 18 year old punk drive a Porsche, bad coaching has always weighed this team down regardless of you think the talent is overrated.
The TRUTH is you saw an overwhelmed Falcons QB in Washington who had 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 Fumbles (that were luckily both recovered by the Falcons) & 2 Rushes for 3 Yards. Now compare that to Jaden Daniels 3 TD, 1 INT, 16 Rushes for 127 Yards. The Falcons were OBVIOUSLY outplayed at the QB Position
So Penix was supposed to be better than the best rookie QB ever in his first road start? Not realistic. Penix gave us a chance to win on the road. He made some very clutch throws and he shows a lot of promise for the future. Not his fault we couldn’t stop Daniels from running in the 2nd half or that Coach Morris’ clock management was horrible. We should not have abandoned the run in the 2nd half either. I get that Washington was stacking the box but I don’t know that a couple of stops would have taken me away from calling runs for both Bijan and Tyler.
@claylalbachan5360 Hold on, give me a second so I can go to the kitchen and get a cup so I can catch your tears 😭. Your avatar is perfect, because you're going fishing....yet again.
@@DeosPraetorian So what? Falcons fans did the same thing over on TB content pages after the Cowboys win, as well as after the Panthers win right before the Falcons game. With that said, it wasnt like I even trolled, I said that it wasnt on the coaches but on the kicker who missed a 56 yard FG by damn near 10 yards. That's ridiculous.
This have been a complete failure all year long 😂 😂 Hopefully they look in the mirror and learn something if not they alone won the NFL stands for not for long
He wasn’t even that good dude wtf??? Oh look at me I’m gonna run the ball .. oh look I’m gonna run again .. clock killing and one penalty on the first drive of 2nd half and poor timeout usage cost us dumbass. You can’t say something like that when penix is the better qb on the field yet again just like last year in college
Or was it the Penix pick or was it the missed FG or was it the penalties or was it something else? Let's suppose that they called the time out and got two more plays. Are you sure that they would have won the game? In my opinion, the most important factor was failure to stop the final drive that cost them the game. Raheem Morris gave the explanation that he thought they would get the play off quickly. It did look to me like they were not in a big hurry for some reason. After a loss, there seems to be some burning need to find a scapegoat. I saw lots of errors on offense, defense. and special teams. Stuff upper lip, the Falcons lost but still have a small chance for a playoff spot. There were bad calls on both teams and some of them were pivotal. I guess the coach will learn from his mistakes, because we all do. As for spying on Jaden Daniels, it's like having a spy on Michael Vick. Everyone had a plan to stop Vick, but how did that work out? You cannot spy Daniels with a linebacker, not fast enough, If you use a safety, is Daniels any good at passing? Oh dear. One loss in overtime and the crowds are gathering with pitchforks and torches. You have a lot of talent, and even Pitts looked good today. See how you feel tomorrow morning. Penix threw a pick and had three overthrows that I saw. But I watched him for every game at the University of Washington and his misses are not characteristic of his play. He was 65% for his two years here and had more than 4500 yards both years. If you look at the Husky record, I think inconsistent is a strange adjective. But such descriptions are opinions, and my opinion is no better than anyone else. i am a Seahawks fan, and looking at the game from the outside, I thought both teams played well. I thought both quarterbacks were great. Lots of teams wish that they had the Falcon problems instead of their own problems. When someone talks about kicking a coach to the curb, the important question is "Who is available, clearly better than our coach, wants to coach here, and is willing to do it for what we an pay?" Pittsburg rarely fires their coaches. It seems to work well for them. Maybe, they are just good at choosing coaches or maybe they let the coaches learn and grow.
It is not a matter of finding scapegoats. It is expecting that a head coach who makes over $10 million a year can use basic common sense and master basic 3rd grade arithmetic. It was absolutely pathetic watching all that time bleed off the clock when all those timeouts were in the Falcons' pocket.
@popjibbletz I've watched Penix since college, I also seen him step up last night, throw a game-tying TD to Pitts and then marched the team back down for a game-winning field goal. It's not Penix fault the Falcons kicker can't kick past 45 yards. Penix 2nd professional game was basically a playoff game. The Falcons defense then let the Redskins march down the field for 6. If this was Cousins the Falcons would have been blown out. With that said, Im a Bucs fan, so im happy regardless. Falcons fans are acting stupid over Penix 2nd game. Maybe the Falcons shouldn't have started the season 6-3 then lose 4 games straight.
Stop! Rah didn't miss a game winning field goal, Rah didn't let JD5 run thru tackles, he wasnt guarding OZ. He didn't keep them on the field with a hands to the face penalty. Basic analysis is basic.
Every potential playoff team has a kicker that can make a 56 yard field goal. But the ATLANTA FALCONS. And Koo is INJURED? Who ever heard of a KICKER being injured? You can't make a kick to put your team in the PLAYOFFS??! Cut both of them!
Raheem Morris costs the Falcons the division and post season play. He mis-managed his QBs. Should have let Penix played during pre-season and started him earlier. Then hang onto the timeout like as if he could trade it in for something. We just needed another play of 3 to 5 yards and the field goal would have been good.
Folks that don’t like Coach Morris finally have something to point too , y’all act like the clock mistake was only issue, it wasn’t, guys we don’t have a good kicker
I like him, but he blundered the clock twice. He pulled cousins too late, and he probably knew that kicker didn't have a leg. The buck stops with the coach unfortunately. I don't think he's our guy
It was a 56 yard field goal! Kicker had it perfectly on target and just needed a few more yards. If it was a 50 yarder, he would've drilled it. He ain't Justin tucker or Brandon Aubrey, but he's not a bad kicker.
He don’t care he is just there walking up and down the side lines taking crazy after the game I think Arthur blank sat down Kirt cousins Arthur fire the coach I know you want to keep him … big mistake
Penix was fine for a rookie you were up 17-7 and made no adjustments so how is this on the players
Poor clock management seems to be an ongoing thing with certain coaches. They never learn either
The end of the first half was worse than the second half. Had three timeouts at the end of the half 🤦🏽♂️ Coach’s excuse was the worse of all
The first half he was playing for the field goal and wasn’t risking losing the ball. I don’t agree with it, but there is at least logic to it. If the defense continued the way it was and the first, and the commanders kept shooting themselves in the foot, like they kept doing early in the third quarter, it wouldn’t have been as dumb. The second half there is literally no defending. You have a kicker you just signed who is known for not having a big leg, and you did nothing to help them get into his field goal range. Actually insanely stupid.
@@bradenculver7457 yeah the end of the first half I can at least see the logic. the end of the 2nd half was egregious
The TRUTH is you saw an overwhelmed Falcons QB in Washington who had 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 Fumbles (that were luckily both recovered by the Falcons) & 2 Rushes for 3 Yards. Now compare that to Jaden Daniels 3 TD, 1 INT, 16 Rushes for 127 Yards. The Falcons were OBVIOUSLY outplayed at the QB Position
@@wandameadows5736 you do understand multiple things can be true at the same time? Coach failed to help his rookie qb on his second start and failed clock management. Daniels torched our defense and we could not react. Both are true.
This loss is not on penix.
Letting Washington convert multiple 3rd and 4th downs is what caused us the game. Daniels killed us in the second half. We got outscored 23-7 in the second half.
Saw Terrell celebrating a tackle like he'd singlehandedly won the game with it and then miss several more by throwing a shoulder and missing or not wrapping the carrier up. Bad tackling is a big problem for several players on this team. Celebrate after you've won or you just look stupid.
Very glad you made this video. I was screaming at the TV during both of these time-out failures by Morris. These weren't situations in which reasonable people could disagree about what to do. These were horrible, MOMENTOUS mental lapses.
Qback did bad this time he played like Kirk and matt.
BS! It was a bad holding call that prevented Washington from putting the game away at 28-17
Hiring Raheem was a head scratcher from the initial announcement on. OC and DC need some scrutiny too.
I’m just getting back from the game and two things that was DEFINITELY TRUE, the non usage of those TOs and NO SPY on JD5. It was crazy. Our DE are SLOWWWWWWW. He had Grady playing some DE. Judon and Lorenzo was ice wagon slow.
No spy is crazy!
No one can help they have to help self only they play dumb . Fron sugar to sh,,,,, sad team
Raheem didn't even learn from one half to the next. Mismanaged timeouts in the first and then doubled down on it at the end of regulation. How can your team be prepared when the coach isn't?
Tackling is painful to watch. How do the coaches "watch film" and not see how obvious and horrible it is. Raheem Morris should retire and be a motivational speaker instead of HC obviously something he would be better at
Biggest issue i have with the timeouts is the presser after. No accountability.
Raheem has mismanged the clock 3/3 opportunities the last 2 weeks. I think that's worthy of real criticism.
Clock management cost us... I saw it at the end of the first half, but we got away with it. The end of the game was crazy. Wasted time. Take the TO!!!
I don’t think penix was as inaccurate as the stats, just a lack of chemistry from his receivers yet he just lead them alittle to much
Morris is at his level of incompetence, he will Never rise any higher than this. DimWit Blank will make falcon fans pay for 2 more years of his own ineptitude .
Arthur Blank is Rankin Smith reincarnated.
Raheem blows he has no business being a head coach and Terry has no business being a GM disappointment year after year
If anyone here thinks Arthur Blank is going to fire a black head coach one year into his contract you are delusional.
Definitely NOT worried about penix. He’s only gonna get better & better.
Should we start calling for another coach?
I would personally move on, have seen nothing special from raheem and i think 75 percent or more of football fans that have played some madden would have handled the timeout situations both at thet end of the game and before halftime. I dont think he gets let go after 1 year though unfortuatley, blank doesnt seem like the type
Ben Johnson
It's unrealistic to expect Raheem to get fired in his first year. The only way I see that happening is if the Bucs lose to the Saints and we lose to the Panthers... blowing a second shot at the playoffs.
Well you can but it will fall on deaf ears. Raheem gets 3 years before Blank will fire.
He'll get another yr because Penix can save his job if he turns out to be th QB of the present.But Cousins signing is a bad look
I didn't see much in the 3rd quarter...,we didn't have the ball
Wish Troy Anderson was healthy
There were a lot of things that cost us but coaching did not not help. We beat ourselves a lot during this game not spying Daniels, missing tackles and managing their timeouts was big. The coaching staff didn't make any adjustments after Daniels started scrambling. I would also disagree that the mismanagement on the timeouts wouldn't be a fire able offense. The bears fired their coach and they lost multiple games this year where they mismanaged their timeouts and just time management at the end of games/end of halves.
This game wasn't as close as it seemed. In the first half Washington's penalties ended a few of thier drives. They mostly cleaned that up in the 2nd half, hence the 2 long drives and the time of possession disparity. That being said, poor clock management, lack of defensive adjustments and Washington being a better overall team cost the Falcons the game. But I see a lot of things to be excited about this team going forward.
Expect a few more years of this.
I’m proud of my Birds!
People gotta realize bro just made his 2nd start of his career. He played amazing for that fact alone, I believe if we had won the coin toss we win the game
Man just kept the time outs like it was his last dime in his pocket 😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅 he's saving them for bonuses lmao
Any high school player would have called the timeout. Just brain dead.
I wonder if Penix can improve because the misses were the same throws he missed in college. He is great, but for every great 2-3 throws, there is the 1 throw that sails on him. I think think it's timing since it the same thing he did in college.
Of all the coaches we could of hired from that magical 2016 season we hire the weakest one.
#FIRE RAHEEM¡¡¡
#HIRE PETE CAROLL!!!
Just keep it simple. "The Penix Pulse" just like our BP: Normal( rookie ROTY), Elevated(Mr. Irrelevant) and High(practice squad/developmental)
Kirk would’ve ran the operations better also calling it a Penix pump is flagrant
😆😆😆
Go after Ben Johnson and ditch Raheem. He would walk into a very good situation. If we stay with a defensive head coach, we will just cycle through OC's and hamstring the offense every few years while they get used to a new coordinator. All the successful franchises have head coaches who provide consistent offenses
🤔They should’ve went for two once they scored. I would let the offense lose the game. The defense was tired the second half.
Yall forget, if the kicker can kick more than 30 freakin yards then we would’ve won with no OT
Thank you, Raheem ♥️💛
Raheem through the entirety of the season has shown complete incompetence. Very similar to Arthur Smith. The falcon way is that they will give him about a 3 year leash before letting him go. It will be such a waste of Bijan Robinson and Michael Penix’s prime years.
Absolutely tragic for these players. So much potential but stuck with a trash coach.
When it comes to the Falcons there’s really not much you can say. Maybe next year I guess.
I wonder if BB would have called a timeout there.
That’s why they made Assistant Coaches
Clock management was bad but I wouldn't put it all on that. Kicker still had a chance to win the game. Gotta make that kick. The bigger issue is the game plan to defend J. Daniels. 127 rush yards is unacceptable. They had no adjustment for his rushing in the second half. Plus the defense could not tackle anybody in the second half.
Not to be "that guy," but the title should read "Morris' Mistakes."... since it's showing ownership, not Morris's Mistakes. #GoBucs 😊
Clock management was a disgrace at the high school level.
We lost a SB by a coin toss, now also the playoffs.
Should of never hired Morris as the head coach....Blank and McKay do it again
You can tell he was told not to run, let him play his game!! You did not run algeir stop trying to make players play your game let him be mobile play clock really this is football over achievement and foot on the gas the ground game helped you get there why stop he ain’t Kirt cousins be mobile man
More than the poor clock management, we gave up every 3rd and 4th down in the second half our offense never got on the field. The poor clock management was definitely huge though
No, unless you want to start another rebuild.
Yeah, the Atlanta Falcons lost to Dan Quinn, OZ, Mariota, +😂. Atlanta is where football dies. You guys don’t have the smarts to develop a talentedrookie. That is your history, DQ developed Ryan, not Atlanta.
You, Aaron, always find fault, rather than celebrate the positives. Penix is in a losing franchise. Also, Arthur Smith seems to be doing just fine.
Atlantas future is still doom and gloom.
I wasn’t even considering realistically that Morris could go one and done but we might want to get a more veteran coach to not spoil our young talent next year, this was inexcusable clock work and horrible talent management all season if you could see penix had this much more physical abilities than Kirk, Kirk’s leash should’ve been shorter…. Also sign penix now to a 10yr extension lol
Who's job is it to scream in the headset at Raheem to call timeouts and throw challenge flags? Hopefully he or she is still at the airport in DC trying to book a flight and find a new job. And Raheem should be 1 and done. This was a debacle.
Given the minor role Raheem plays in the actual game you would think he could at least manage the clock. Sadly it’s time for another head coach in Flowery branch
You guys also buried Matt Ryan and Kurt Cousins and millions $. Such poor decision making. Like paying lots of money for the wrong thing, which kept the team from hiring the right ppl.
Aaron, you can’t go 100% for Penix bcause you were 100% for Ridder, and so wrong. You’re shell shocked that ur plan for a cheap rookie was so wrong.
Some of us tried to tell you you were wrong to go all out for Ridder.😊
I’m so glad my Tampa Bay Buccaneers fired him. We ran him out of town for making mistakes like this. 😂😂😂 yall problem now , thanks 🙏🏽 Go Bucs 🏆
Damn now we don't want him😂
@@atlsarmondand we are going to have to live with him for one more year since you don’t fire coaches after one year and Terry is going to take the fall on the sword for the coaching incompetence.
Bro we stuck with Todd Bowles. Lets not talk much shit
Sucs one and done
Didn't the Falcons sweep the Bucs this year? lol
Where's the QB coach been trying to help Pennix with accuracy? Watching the game just a reminder the lack of talent on this team. 4 yrs to build this team Fontenot. Do you fire him? Most of the wins came against bad teams. Tampa is more of an outlier . Other than the Commanders game Falcs could not hang with playoff caliber teams. More talent is needed and I shiver to think Fontenot will still be in charge.
If it not for a back up corner back on commanders , michael penix would have been miserable last night.
He's a rookie so it's OK for now . I don't know how you fix certain mechanics from a left handed qb who has a heck of an arm but seems to have a problem with finesse .....and with wide open receivers.
He had same problem in college ....especially against the better teams but had 3 soon to be nfl wide receivers ( one - who will be , eventually, a stud) and best oline in pac 12.
He has 11+ inch hands and that should be such an advantage in passing mechanics . He also has a major injury background which will prevent him to be this running qb. He has some mobility so theres that.
I don't know how Cousins just fell off a cliff like he seemingly did. I just can't buy into that unless he actually talks retirement then we can go back and point to the how and when. He's 97% gone so I don't know how I feel about the qb position going forward.
Again, Penix deserves benefit of doubt as its his 2nd game but I don't know.
Relax. Penix will be a fine NFL quarterback. He will improve greatly during the offseason with work on his mechanics.
Penix just started throwing to 1st team last week. That was a terrible situation to be in. I blame the coaches for lack of foresight. If Penix had Odunze out there, he would have made those throws in the end zone. Penix and the receivers were out of sync.
Just like I said in another post they would loose to a better team they should have left Cousins finish out the year it was wrong pulling him out he’s the one that caught them there by beating the Bucks both times.
@@djbsmb6012 Lose, not loose. Got, not caught.
@djbsmb6012 And losing a bunch of more games put where they are
This game was actually nearly all on the coaching staff. After doing thousands of hours of research on Hall of Fame quarterbacks I can tell you that coaching is about 50% of the game and the players performance in total only about 50%. Might sound crazy but I would challenge you to watch football going forward with that in mind and I think it won't be too long before you agree.
The biggest coaching mistake by far was benching Kirk Cousins. Let me explain. Kirk had 6 starts against the league's elite defenses, only the Bears have had that many. In those 6 starts his completion % was 64.7 and his yards per attempt was 7.4. The league averages against those defenses are 52.5 and 5.4. It is very possible that Kirk was the best in the league against those teams. He didn't throw many touchdowns but it is hard to throw touchdowns when your play caller only lets you throw when you have to throw and hardly at all in the red zone.
Kirk faced 5 defenses that were the quality of the Commanders and his completion % was 13.9% better than Penix with a whopping 1.6 better Y/A and a 9/4 touchdown to Int ratio. Cousins was even better in his 3 games against the defenses the quality of the Giants despite the terrible play calling.
Robinson's play calling has been much improved since Penix took the reins. Against the Commanders he threw 50% on first down, 70 % on 2nd and medium, 100 % on 3rd and medium and 3rd and short and even 25% on 2nd and short. That is really setting the quarterback up for success. Who knows how much better Cousins would have been with that play calling but it would likely have been substantial.
Penix had 10 bad to poor passes in this game. I don't think Cousins had 10 bad to poor passes in his two worst games combined. With all the bad play calling and the difficult schedule Kirk was still 3rd in the league in yards in a run first offense. He was the only quarterback with two receivers on a pace to 1,000 yards and he was on a pace to break his own record for most receptions by 4 different receivers. He was also on a pace to break the record for most receptions by 5 different receivers despite Pitts lack of effort. That adds up to a very impressive season.
Robinson and Morris destroyed what could have been, should have been, the best offense in the league. A Cousins led offense dragged a much worst defense to a 13-4 season in 2022 and this season should have been even better with a better offensive line and better running game than Kirk had that season. But coaching is 50% of the game.
Kirk is hurt. You saw what he did against the Raiders. We probably get shut out with him at the helm in this game. Having said that, we have a terrible HC. My heart sunk when he was hired, as it had desperation all over it. You should never be in a position where games are lost by boneheaded decisions and clock management issues, and Morris does that in spades. We will be a fringe playoff team/mediocre at best with him running the show.
@@pj5491 Agree with you...that said, the pocket was pretty clean all night...which is where Cousins shines. Not sure he has the arm strength right now though to have warranted a shot.
@@pj5491 I don't think Kirk is hurt. He chased down a defensive back in August and said that's when he knew he was all right. Against the Raiders he should have had a great game against that defense but the coaching staff took the ball out of his hands until it was 3rd and long. He threw two passes that were deemed bad passes but one was going to be a completion for a first down but was tipped at the line and turned into an interception and the other one was perfectly thrown to the open spot in the zone which would have been another first down but Ray Ray didn't stop in the open spot and it looked like Kirk threw it behind him. Both "bad throws" were not his fault. The coaching staff's decision to not let Kirk participate in that game came within inches of the Falcons losing to maybe the worst team in the league. I think the reason that they took the ball out of his hands that game was because they wanted a reason to go to Penix and play with their new toy and it cost them a trip to the playoffs, no doubt about it. Under the circumstances of the schedule and the play calling Kirk had one of the top 5 seasons of any QB in the league this season.
You can tell he was told not to run, let him play his game!! You did not run algeir stop trying to make players play your game let him be mobile play clock really this is football over achievement and foot on the gas the ground game helped you get there why stop he ain’t Kirt cousins be mobile man!! Daniel’s ran down your throats not throwing running mobile qb
My redskins should of not won that game. The coach let us off the hook 🪝
AARON the Raheem SHILL....SMH
The Falcons organization has to be the worst in sports history:! The Kurt Cousin deal and how thete defense has been pathetic for as long as anyone can remember it showed last night they truly can't tackle or know how to wrap up a guy and bring him down"! I hope there's alot of people fired after all this and to go after Cousins and draft a quarterback in the first round and not get defensive players who can tackle and get some sacks this team was running around like they didn't know what they were doing and it's like this year in and year out"!
JD5 is that dude. Clutch.
Thanks guys! naw seriously Penix shows promise he looked good. I might be a little worried about his injury history. A close game you guys should have won.
Nobody talking about that bs call on Deangelo Malone that’s the turning point the game was rigged my girl don’t even watch football and she was screaming time out I don’t believe Raheem didn’t know to call a time out if he would have called that time out they would’ve killed a family it’s too obvious iam done being a fan
I mean Penix missed a wide open Mooney. If he was tacked inbounds, Ra calls a TO. We have the ball at the 35 w 12 sec and a TO. That’s a play anywhere on the field to set up a better FG. I get his reasoning, but Penix missed a wide open Mooney and it’s Ra’s fault.
How about poor tackling cost us the game.
Kinda true
I remember back in 2019 when Heem was the DC, and Russell Wilson came in with Seattle and ran all over the Falcons...and he said they didn't plan for Russell"s mobility...
Yeah
And it’s not the coach the hire ups that’s why we kept Kirt in so long they want a great white hope!!!!!
Raheem isn't as smart as he profess to be. He freezes up when an important call needs to be made.Eg: time outs.Not head coaching material.oh! And loose the hip hop look. You not in da club!
Raheem Morris is not a winning coach. He will never be a winning coach - Arthur Blank was dupped for $20 million
Raheem has been a HC before & still doesn’t know clock management…
Quinn and Morris are both in the same camp. They are not very good for in game decisions. They are ra ra culture and team builders. When the chips are down they are not great tactician. They can not make the adjustments critical to winning. Why would u not call a timeout late in the game? My nephew is 10 and playing madden instructs u to call timeout. Football 101....just like up 25 pts in the 3rd quarter u milk the clock. Err ...too soon? Morons
Say serious black,I say forget next week and let’s get ready for next year.if penix had better chemistry with those guys we a be good.🤦🏾♂️ I think next year gone be the year.and they also need to reexamine that offensive line I’m sorry to say😩🤦🏾♂️ my opinion.
The whiteboard is out of pocket!!
you guys have to root for the saints soon
Find some hotshot kicker in the UFL and I don’t give a crap. Try to trade for Sean McVay, tired of the same old crap of “oh hey falcons have talent they can do something this year.” Get a head coach that is worth a damn and make sure you have Dale Earnhardt driving the fancy Porsche and not some 18 year old punk. For the past 5-7 years, Atlanta has been letting some 18 year old punk drive a Porsche, bad coaching has always weighed this team down regardless of you think the talent is overrated.
Coach Rah is a joke. It’s like he doesn’t learn anything
The TRUTH is you saw an overwhelmed Falcons QB in Washington who had 1 TD, 1 INT, 2 Fumbles (that were luckily both recovered by the Falcons) & 2 Rushes for 3 Yards. Now compare that to Jaden Daniels 3 TD, 1 INT, 16 Rushes for 127 Yards. The Falcons were OBVIOUSLY outplayed at the QB Position
You don't know what the hell you're talking about. Penix led us to overtime. It about organization leadership and the buffoon on the sideline
So Penix was supposed to be better than the best rookie QB ever in his first road start? Not realistic. Penix gave us a chance to win on the road. He made some very clutch throws and he shows a lot of promise for the future. Not his fault we couldn’t stop Daniels from running in the 2nd half or that Coach Morris’ clock management was horrible. We should not have abandoned the run in the 2nd half either. I get that Washington was stacking the box but I don’t know that a couple of stops would have taken me away from calling runs for both Bijan and Tyler.
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SO ULL HAVE 2 CHEER UZ ON 2 BEAT DA BUCZ R ULL R NOT GOING 2 PLAYOFFZ?!WHO DAT BABY LET ME HEAR IT FALCON FANZ!!!
The kicker's inability to kick 56 yards cost the team the game. As a Bucs fan, I am highly appreciative 😂
Your one and done at most 🤡
@claylalbachan5360 Hold on, give me a second so I can go to the kitchen and get a cup so I can catch your tears 😭. Your avatar is perfect, because you're going fishing....yet again.
@claylalbachan5360 You'll be fishing though. Nice avatar! 🦈
I mean you're The one going out of your way to comment in a Falcons content creators videos@@SecondWindStories
@@DeosPraetorian So what? Falcons fans did the same thing over on TB content pages after the Cowboys win, as well as after the Panthers win right before the Falcons game. With that said, it wasnt like I even trolled, I said that it wasnt on the coaches but on the kicker who missed a 56 yard FG by damn near 10 yards. That's ridiculous.
This have been a complete failure all year long 😂 😂 Hopefully they look in the mirror and learn something if not they alone won the NFL stands for not for long
No, it was JD5 that cost ya’ll the game.
He wasn’t even that good dude wtf???
Oh look at me I’m gonna run the ball .. oh look I’m gonna run again .. clock killing and one penalty on the first drive of 2nd half and poor timeout usage cost us dumbass. You can’t say something like that when penix is the better qb on the field yet again just like last year in college
No it was bad clock management. Falcons should have been able to run a couple more plays to get closer for a field goal to win
350 total yards, 3 Touchdowns and the victory. You couldn’t stop him. He was, in fact, “That good”.
@@scorpiothegreat1 both things can be true... He was great and the Falcons had crucial missed opportunities that should have won them the game
Or was it the Penix pick or was it the missed FG or was it the penalties or was it something else? Let's suppose that they called the time out and got two more plays. Are you sure that they would have won the game? In my opinion, the most important factor was failure to stop the final drive that cost them the game. Raheem Morris gave the explanation that he thought they would get the play off quickly. It did look to me like they were not in a big hurry for some reason. After a loss, there seems to be some burning need to find a scapegoat. I saw lots of errors on offense, defense. and special teams. Stuff upper lip, the Falcons lost but still have a small chance for a playoff spot. There were bad calls on both teams and some of them were pivotal. I guess the coach will learn from his mistakes, because we all do. As for spying on Jaden Daniels, it's like having a spy on Michael Vick. Everyone had a plan to stop Vick, but how did that work out? You cannot spy Daniels with a linebacker, not fast enough, If you use a safety, is Daniels any good at passing? Oh dear. One loss in overtime and the crowds are gathering with pitchforks and torches. You have a lot of talent, and even Pitts looked good today. See how you feel tomorrow morning. Penix threw a pick and had three overthrows that I saw. But I watched him for every game at the University of Washington and his misses are not characteristic of his play. He was 65% for his two years here and had more than 4500 yards both years. If you look at the Husky record, I think inconsistent is a strange adjective. But such descriptions are opinions, and my opinion is no better than anyone else. i am a Seahawks fan, and looking at the game from the outside, I thought both teams played well. I thought both quarterbacks were great. Lots of teams wish that they had the Falcon problems instead of their own problems. When someone talks about kicking a coach to the curb, the important question is "Who is available, clearly better than our coach, wants to coach here, and is willing to do it for what we an pay?"
Pittsburg rarely fires their coaches. It seems to work well for them. Maybe, they are just good at choosing coaches or maybe they let the coaches learn and grow.
It is not a matter of finding scapegoats. It is expecting that a head coach who makes over $10 million a year can use basic common sense and master basic 3rd grade arithmetic. It was absolutely pathetic watching all that time bleed off the clock when all those timeouts were in the Falcons' pocket.
Is Penix a dual threat, or is he one these statue guys 🤔
Penix is a beast. It was dudes 2nd freaking game. Im a Bucs fan and can see that Penix is going to be a force
@@SecondWindStorieslmfao Are we watching the same player?
He wasn't the problem
So many poor quality coaches in NFL it's shocking
@popjibbletz I've watched Penix since college, I also seen him step up last night, throw a game-tying TD to Pitts and then marched the team back down for a game-winning field goal. It's not Penix fault the Falcons kicker can't kick past 45 yards. Penix 2nd professional game was basically a playoff game. The Falcons defense then let the Redskins march down the field for 6. If this was Cousins the Falcons would have been blown out. With that said, Im a Bucs fan, so im happy regardless. Falcons fans are acting stupid over Penix 2nd game. Maybe the Falcons shouldn't have started the season 6-3 then lose 4 games straight.
Atl Better lose out they're trash anyways
Stop! Rah didn't miss a game winning field goal, Rah didn't let JD5 run thru tackles, he wasnt guarding OZ. He didn't keep them on the field with a hands to the face penalty. Basic analysis is basic.
Every potential playoff team has a kicker that can make a 56 yard field goal. But the ATLANTA FALCONS. And Koo is INJURED? Who ever heard of a KICKER being injured? You can't make a kick to put your team in the PLAYOFFS??! Cut both of them!
Another thing, they couldn't stop Zaccheaus. None of our receivers seemed to be that open
Raheem Morris did the same thing in Tampa
I can’t believe Raheem sold for his team like that let the whole fan base down it unacceptable
Raheem Morris costs the Falcons the division and post season play. He mis-managed his QBs. Should have let Penix played during pre-season and started him earlier. Then hang onto the timeout like as if he could trade it in for something. We just needed another play of 3 to 5 yards and the field goal would have been good.
Folks that don’t like Coach Morris finally have something to point too , y’all act like the clock mistake was only issue, it wasn’t, guys we don’t have a good kicker
Yeah but the clock Management directly led to that Miss field goal
@@DeosPraetorian and possibly a shot at a TD at the end of the first half too.
I like him, but he blundered the clock twice. He pulled cousins too late, and he probably knew that kicker didn't have a leg. The buck stops with the coach unfortunately. I don't think he's our guy
It was a 56 yard field goal! Kicker had it perfectly on target and just needed a few more yards. If it was a 50 yarder, he would've drilled it. He ain't Justin tucker or Brandon Aubrey, but he's not a bad kicker.
What do you mean the coaching is the reason they lost and I don’t want to hear shit about Penix he did great for his first road start
He don’t care he is just there walking up and down the side lines taking crazy after the game I think Arthur blank sat down Kirt cousins Arthur fire the coach I know you want to keep him … big mistake
BS, that call was crap that cost us the game
I don’t care long as the buccaneers 🏴☠️ get blowout by the Minnesota Vikings 😂
As long as the Bucs get their 4th division title in a row and stop the Falcons from going to the playoffs, thats a Tampa win!
Sucs didn't prevent the falcons from doing anything 🤡🧹🧹
@@TheBeggies95 yall are ass without Mike evans
Penix not ready for the crunch time. Not ready for the big lights. Not ready to put the game on his shoulders. He might get there. He might not.
So throw it in a crowd Kirk no way