00:00Andy, why is that hard for people to understand?
00:03What?
00:03That answer right there.
00:06Why Michael didn't play in Miami and why he is where he is?
00:10Why is it so hard for him?
00:11Because I know we said it plenty of times on the show, why he didn't play.
00:14Because it just started there.
00:14Why was that so hard to grasp?
00:16I think because people don't like it.
00:18Okay.
00:19Okay.
00:19That could be it.
00:20Okay.
00:20Just checking.
00:23And it's a little bit unusual, right?
00:25I mean, this is, I don't know what the latest ever, like, this is our starting quarterback
00:30announcement in the NFL is, but this one's going to come close.
00:36I mean, week of has got to at least be tied for the lead, right?
00:40Every other team has announced, and fans probably just wish this team could be a little bit more
00:46normal sometimes.
00:47Yeah.
00:47Probably.
00:48Because, again, you don't want to hear that.
00:50I think it's what it is.
00:50It's not like it's hard for people to understand.
00:53It's just not what people want to hear.
00:54Folks don't like not knowing stuff about their team.
00:59And sometimes you're just not going to know stuff.
01:01You know, like, are we going to get this contract extension done?
01:04Is the off-season thing going to result in a suspension?
01:07Like, there's unknowns that you're never going to know.
01:09I feel like, though, it's understandable for people to want to know who the starting quarterback
01:14is.
01:14Yeah.
01:15I mean, no, I understand that part.
01:17I think that's it.
01:17That's it.
01:18No, I understand the part about wanting to know your starting quarterback, but if the guy
01:20who was going to beat for your starting quarterback just started doing something
01:23and that won't allow him to do something.
01:25They just want it to be faster, I guess.
01:26Okay.
01:27I don't know.
01:27All right.
01:28Okay, bro.
01:28All right.
01:29But, no, Michael's got, like, again, our theory, this is just me and your theory about
01:33this to me seems like, because Ian did say it on the show, was that Michael's getting
01:39more reps with the ones.
01:40To me, it looks like they want Michael to see how close they can get Michael to start
01:44a meeting.
01:45They want Michael Penich to start.
01:47Feels that way.
01:47Yeah, they want Michael Penich to start if he's unable to go or whatever, because you're
01:52not going to be able to get the physical part of an NFL football game if you're Michael
01:56Penich.
01:56You better not touch him.
01:58They're not going to have tackling drills for him or anything like that.
02:00But what they're going to do, they're going to look at the timing of everything.
02:03They're going to look how he looks, climb in the pocket, you know, because of how different
02:08everything is now from seven on seven.
02:09There's linemen.
02:10There's actual hands up.
02:12You're allowed to bat the ball down, especially this week, because this ain't, like, when you're
02:16game planning and stuff, Andy, you're going to the scout team, you better not tip or bat
02:19a damn ball down.
02:20But now, because there's Falcons on Falcons, you can get hands up in there.
02:23You can do all those different things.
02:24How does he progress through that is what they're looking for.
02:27And if they like what they see, Michael's going to start against Pittsburgh.
02:29And if they don't, then it'd be cool.
02:32If they don't, that's pretty bad, right?
02:35Because, like, again, I just don't know, what is he not doing?
02:38And that's the thing about it.
02:39I don't know.
02:40I don't know.
02:40But that's the only thing I can view it as, is how does he look moving around in the team
02:45period, because him getting hit would not, it's just, don't say it, him getting hit
02:53ain't, I don't know what I'm trying to say, it's not in that big of a deal to me.
02:57You know what I'm saying?
02:57Because he didn't play in a preseason game.
02:59How do you evaluate?
03:00Well, you don't want me to get in the preseason.
03:02So you didn't even tell me you wanted me to get hit in a preseason game?
03:05Right.
03:05And I know people talk about the speed and all those different things.
03:07Whatever.
03:08But I'm just saying, if they're going to look at it from the progression each day, it's how
03:11he's going to process everything with the live rush around him.
03:15Period.
03:16And so they like what they see?
03:18Okay.
03:18Yeah.
03:18And that's our theory, right?
03:21That's what we think is going on.
03:22I think we're right.
03:23I think we are too.
03:24I think we're right.
03:24But it doesn't, you know, I think we are too, and hopefully that's how it plays out.
03:27So if it doesn't play out like that, and Penix doesn't show that he's ready to go, and
03:31Tua starts, with our theory, and it feels like a lot of people are kind of in that same
03:34sort of line of thinking, then that means they had to start a guy that they really
03:38didn't want to start.
03:40Week one.
03:41Yeah.
03:41And that sucks.
03:42Like, that's just like, the way that it's played out, again, hopefully they'll say something
03:48to explain it in a way that makes it not feel like that.
03:50Right.
03:50But like, if Tua starts week one against the Steelers, it feels like that's not the outcome
03:56that they wanted.
03:57No, it does not seem like that's the outcome they wanted.
03:59And it feels like not a good outcome.
04:00And it also seems like, if that's the case, because right now, I still, and I think you
04:05coming along with me, they want Michael Penix to start game one.
04:08Yeah, definitely.
04:09But if he can't go game one, does he go game two?
04:12Right.
04:12Because who knows, if he's not ready now for that, maybe he's not ready, you know, maybe
04:16they've got to sit him down for four weeks.
04:17And that's the thing about it, what we talked about yesterday.
04:19Which would do what?
04:20That frees up a spot on the 53 for someone else?
04:22Yes.
04:22Okay.
04:23So that would be the reason to do that.
04:24If they published him.
04:25But I think, I just think that Michael, because, because I don't think he has any physical
04:32limitations as far as the knee.
04:34I just think because he didn't play, because he started the one, the 11-on-11 on that last
04:40week, there was no team, I said it then, and I'll repeat myself, there was nobody of the
04:4632 teams that would have played their quarterback after being in 11-on-11 drills two days in a
04:52preseason game.
04:52It would have never happened.
04:54Never.
04:55That's why he didn't play.
04:57And again, he's taken all the rest of it, most of the rest of it, I should say.
05:00I think he, to me, sounds like he's going to be ready to go.
05:03Just got to show him.
05:04Sounds like he's ready to go.
05:04Just got to show him.
05:06Boy.
05:07Well, maybe we'll, what's it, the second?
05:09We're not going to know tomorrow.
05:10We won't know this week, will we?
05:13Ah, no.
05:14Probably not.
05:15So next week, then?
05:16Because they play next week.
05:16Yeah.
05:16So we've got to know next week.
05:17We'll definitely know by Sunday.
05:20Yeah, dog.
05:20The 13th, maybe.
05:22But again.
05:23Whoever starts, then we'll know.
05:24But if there's no press availability, why the hell are you going to say something?
05:28Well, they got a lot of press availability.
05:30On, I mean.
05:30Wednesday next week and Friday and Thursday.
05:32But I'm saying, do Joe and them be in there Monday or Tuesday?
05:36No.
05:37Or not Tuesday.
05:37No.
05:38Okay.
05:38So Wednesday.
05:39Imagine the clicks, though, if you just post something on social.
05:42It's true.
05:43They do.
05:44Well, how about you can news dump it Friday?
05:46I think they get a lot of clicks.
05:47It's not great if you're news dumping.
05:49Let's not news dump our quarterback announcement.
05:52Goodness gracious.
05:53But that's kind of what it might be.
05:55All right.
