00:00I just don't understand for the life of me how this plays out for Jack Strand.
00:03That's what I can't figure out.
00:05That's why it's so strange to me that you're still dealing
00:07with a four-quarterback situation.
00:09What's the best-case scenario for Jack Strand?
00:12That's what I can't map out.
00:14Well, I don't think they're thinking the best,
00:17the worst-case scenario for them is that they cut him and he gets picked up.
00:22The best-case scenario is you don't have to even worry about him
00:27and you can hold him over because they're clearly not worried about the roster spots.
00:34For whatever reason, even though we worry about it, I do, I think about it,
00:38how to use positions better,
00:40they're set that they're good with four quarterbacks and two running backs.
00:44But here's the issue with it.
00:46You say you don't have to worry about Jack Strand, he's just there.
00:48So then what's the best, like what scenario is it that Jack Strand is useful?
00:53That's what I can't figure out.
00:54I don't think they're looking at it that way, though.
00:56I don't think they're looking at – that's what I'm trying to –
00:59Then why are they – but they have to be because you just said
01:02they're worried about him getting picked up somewhere else.
01:03So why is the worst?
01:04Are you talking about 26 or –
01:07Period.
01:08Future.
01:08Future.
01:09Any point.
01:09I think in the future, they see best case ever, like best day ever,
01:18he turns into something.
01:20Like a starter or at least a very valuable backup.
01:24It's – I'm not telling you I know this and that's what they're saying.
01:28I'm telling you that's what I'm deducing from what they're – the way they're
01:31treating this.
01:32I agree with you, but just let me – let me lay this out.
01:35How does that happen?
01:36If he's not even good enough right now to be your third stringer to the point
01:40where you bring in Andy Dalton, how do you get from he's our fourth string
01:44quarterback to he is our starter or backup anytime soon?
01:47Because if Michael Penix isn't good enough this year, what are you going to do
01:50probably next year?
01:51You're going to draft a quarterback.
01:53So then where does that leave Jack Strand?
01:55Or you're going to sign someone.
01:56If he's your fourth stringer this year and then all of a sudden he's your backup
01:58next year when he hasn't done anything?
01:59Well, I think that's what I – that's what I'm saying.
02:02There's lots of backup quarterbacks in the NFL that haven't done anything.
02:04There's also guys that have done a lot.
02:06Did you know –
02:07But they usually don't come from the fourth stringers.
02:09Did you know – well, I don't know this, so I'm asking you.
02:13And maybe you don't know and maybe we can – Dylan can help us because he knows
02:18more about the Eagles than most of us because of his – his girl is a big Eagles fan
02:25and she knows everything about him.
02:26Where the hell did Tanner McKee come from?
02:29This isn't the first time he started, though.
02:31This weekend was his third or the fourth.
02:34But where did he come from?
02:36How did he get through it?
02:37So they drafted him and they just kind of breeded him up and then he eventually
02:41became the backup.
02:41And so –
02:43That's –
02:44Yeah.
02:44That's –
02:45It was a –
02:46The only thing I can think of.
02:47For Tanner McKee, it was – I'll say for Tanner McKee, it was a two-, three-year
02:52process before he got in the role he is now.
02:55I know we've got to move on.
02:56The problem that I'm trying to outline here is it's not that third string quarterbacks
03:01can't come from places.
03:01It's why if he's not good enough to be the third stringer, is he on the active roster
03:07at this point?
03:07Because I don't know what that roadmap looks like moving forward.
03:10That he goes from fourth stringer on active roster to now, in a year's time, you're
03:17either dealing with being that Michael Penix is back up or the draft pick's back up.
03:19There's really not a route where he's the first string guy next year.
03:23I get what you're saying, but it's clear that that's their plan for him.
03:31Like, and it wouldn't be out of the world that a guy was – didn't see any – and he's
03:36actually seen it, but didn't see any play in action in one year, and then the next year
03:39is coming in and competing for a better spot on the roster.
03:43I mean, I'm not saying I love it, but that is clearly what they're doing, and that is
03:50clearly what they're thinking, in my mind.
03:54And I don't – I'm not saying I agree with him, I'm just saying I don't know how it
03:58could play out any other way than that, in my mind right now, with the way they're
04:01treating it.
04:04And Tanner McKee – Dylan's right, he was a 23, 6th round draft pick, which to me,
04:09if you're drafting a quarterback in the 6th round and he's undrafted, there's not a
04:12big difference.
04:15Don't have to go any further.
04:17TBD.
04:17Clearly, we're on two different pages.
04:18I mean, it's – I guess it's just TBD with Jack Strand at this point.
04:23I'm going to keep using the word clearly, because Bo keeps using the word clearly, and
04:26there's nothing clear about this entire conversation.
04:29You keep asking me something.
04:30And I keep giving you an answer of the only way I can see it playing out, the
04:34only way it makes sense to me, and you – it feels like you don't like it, so
04:38you're just like, well, I'm going to ask you again.
04:40And I'm confused.
04:41I'm asking you, what's the roadmap for Jack Strand being a starting quarterback?
04:44How does that happen?
04:45I thought I just laid out what I thought it was.
04:48What is it?
04:51Don't look at Dylan.
04:52Look at me.
04:52What is it?
04:53Was I not –
04:53What's the route?
04:54Was I not clear that he stays on the roster this year and develops, and then they
04:58hope in a year or maybe two that he basically competes for something?
05:03I thought I said that.
05:04But my point is that if that's what you – if you think that highly of him, that you
05:11think this guy can really be something for us in a year or two, then why is he your fourth
05:15stringer right now?
05:17Because, again, I think that they're trying to see what Michael Penning says, and he's
05:21clearly not ready to be thrown to the wolves and just destroyed.
05:24He wasn't ready to be played.
05:25I'm not saying he needs to be your starter.
05:26I said, why is he your fourth stringer?
05:29Because he's not ready?
05:31Exactly.
05:32But that's the whole point of having him here and that what they want him here for is develop.
05:37And I know he can do it for the practice squad.
05:38How can you develop a fourth stringer?
05:40Hold on.
05:41Let's think about it this way for a second.
05:42Let's think about who is in front of Michael Penning Jr.
05:47I mean, in front of Jack Strand right now.
05:49Michael Penning, obviously, we're hoping he's a starter, right?
05:51So let's put him there.
05:51And let's talk about Jack Strand as a potential backup.
05:54Let's not even think starter right now.
05:55Let's think backup.
05:57Tua, probably not going to be here for the long run if Michael Penning Jr. plays out
06:01the way we think, hopefully, he's going to play out.
06:02I agree with that.
06:03So that gets Tua out of the room.
06:04Okay.
06:05Andy Dalton, not a long-term solution.
06:07Probably just going to be here for the rest of the year.
06:09He's gone.
06:09So that moves Jack Strand right up to potentially backup unless things get shaky and Michael
06:16Penning Jr. isn't that guy.
06:17Then maybe you're drafting a guy.
06:19And that still could have Jack Strand in the realm of possibly being a backup if you're
06:24ready to move on from Michael Penning Jr.
06:26The problem with it, and I agree with what you're saying, that's the road map.
06:30But I'm looking at Tua and Andy Dalton as being the same guy at this point.
06:34And I think you are, too, because that's what you just said.
06:35Right.
06:36Both those guys just move out of the way and Jack Strand moves up.
06:38Yes.
06:38Then why not give him the reps that Tua and Andy Dalton are getting if that's the way
06:44we think of him?
06:44That's my point through the whole thing.
06:46He's a fourth stringer.
06:48He's not doing anything.
06:50I get it.
06:50We already talked about Cooper Rush getting half the reps when Michael Penning Jr.
06:53Here's the problem.
06:54I understand what you're saying, but it's clearly not changing.
06:59So even having the conversation is essentially the same as taking my head and slamming it up
07:03against that double-paned glass window.
07:05It ain't doing any good.
07:06It's not going to break the window, and the window's not going to – nothing is going
07:12to change if I take my head and bang it against this double-paned glass window.
07:15I don't know why we have this job.
07:17Why are we doing good, bad, and ugly?
07:19It's not going to change their game plan next week.
07:21That's different.
07:21We're actually talking about what went on.
07:23But if we talk – we can talk – nothing made no sense to have him on the roster to
07:29begin
07:29with.
07:31Unless you thought you valued him high enough that you're afraid someone's going to take him,
07:35which is what I've said nine times clearly in this conversation.
07:39But you're not – you don't want to hear my answers.
07:41I don't understand it.
07:43It's not.
07:44Abe has –
07:44I'm not asking you what they're thinking.
07:46I know what they're thinking.
07:47Well, I'm telling you –
07:48I'd like to know what Bo thinks at some point.
07:50I don't – I did.
07:50I told you what I thought.
07:51I don't know why, other than this is their plan.
07:53That's the answer.
07:55But that's their – that's clearly their plan.
07:58Because if not, why is he here?
08:00Why – I mean, I said that –
08:03Sir, go back to the original question.
08:04Why is he here?
08:05Did I not say that?
08:07Like, I – did I not – was I not clear?
08:09Or did he just want to argue with me?
08:11I felt like he just wanted to argue with me.
08:13I'm not – I think you explained it.
08:15I'm not sure what you were missing on it.
08:18I think that what you got – what we're missing in this is you signed Andy Dalton to be your
08:23third stringer.
08:24Why?
08:26Why did we just sign Andy Dalton to be our third string quarterback?
08:30Because we're not just released Cooper Rush and be done with it.
08:32Why not just release Cooper Rush and Andy Dalton doesn't have to come in?
08:35And it's like, oh, well, because Jack Strand is not ready.
08:38Then why is he on the roster?
08:40He's a fourth stringer.
08:42I mean, I've told you why.
08:43I know what you think.
08:44I'm not saying that you haven't played it.
08:46That's got to be the only way.
08:47I'm asking questions of the Falcons right now, not of Bo Morgan.
08:50But I'm telling you, I think it's pretty obvious how they feel.
08:53Well, I've never seen an NFL team do that unless that is what they were thinking.
08:59Okay, you're saying it's obvious they think they can develop him into something.
09:01No, I'm saying it's obvious that they want him here, they like something in him, and they're
09:05afraid of losing him to put him on the practice squad.
09:07I don't know how else anyone can – especially you can see it any other way.
09:11Again, we're on two different pages because that's not the question.
09:14If they like him enough to think he can develop into a backup or he can be a part of
09:18what you're
09:19doing moving forward, then why is he fourth string?
09:21Why is he fourth string?
09:22That's the question.
