DISASTER: Is Michael Penix’s Knee Injury the END for Atlanta Falcons HOPES and Raheem Morris?

DISASTER: Is Michael Penix’s Knee Injury the END for Atlanta Falcons HOPES and Raheem Morris?

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And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use all across the FanDuel app. So, I am your humble host, Aaron Freeman. We’ll be talking today about Michael Penn’s injury in the Falcons 30-27 overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers in week 11. We’ll also be talking about Raheem Morris’s job status as well as what was the moment you leave a comment if you’re here on YouTube or, you know, hit me up uh to to tell me the moment where you knew the Falcons were going to lose on this particular Sunday. Maybe you woke up like that. Maybe there was a moment in this game. I’ll give you my moment when I knew this team was going to have five straight losses. And so that will be what we’ll get into later in the episode. But let’s jump right into sort of the big talking point that should be coming out of this game. No, it’s not Raheem Morris’s firing, although you know, we’ll see. We’ll talk about that later. But it’s really Michael Penn getting injured. He got he injured his knee late in the third quarter. Did not exit the game. Kurt Cousins came in, finished the game. Um, and we did not get an update after the game uh from Raheem Morris and he basically said we we we need to do essentially more testing on it, which is not a good sign. And uh he took a hit on the blitz. Um I guess landed wrong because like they showed the replay and there wasn’t like a clear mechanism for a knee injury on that particular play. Uh, and of course that’s a concern given Michael Penn’s extensive background of knee injuries. For those of you that don’t know, he tore both of his ACL’s during his time at Indiana oh so many years ago. Um, and so, you know, you can’t help I maybe you can maybe you guys are better than me than this, but my mind immediately goes to like, oh, he suffered I’m not going to say a no contact injury, but like not a clear-cut like, oh, he got hit low and he busted his knee. It’s just like he got pushed to the turf and injured his knee. That’s not a good sign. That’s not a non-cont injury because there was contact on the play, but it wasn’t contact to the knee. The only thing that contacted the knee was the turf. So, I’m nervous, right? And now that the season is officially over, you know, we we had moved on. You know, now the Falcons are three and seven, it’s officially it’s a it’s a wrap, right? For everybody on the planet, it’s a wrap. We here on Locked on Falcons, I can’t speak for all of you, but the humble host of Locked on Falcons, we were like, “Oh, season’s done.” When the Falcons fell to three and four after they lost to Miami in week eight, that was that was the point when they could have gotten their season back on track. And it’s just been downhill since, right? And at after that Dolphins game, we came on the podcast and I believe it was after the Dolphins game, we said there are three boxes that this regime has to check in order for them to walk away from this season feeling like, you know, they had a successful season and therefore sell the ownership on bringing them back in 2026, right? One of those was the playoffs. That’s done. Again, I don’t know what their mathematical chances are at this point in time going into this game. it was less than 5% chance of making the playoffs. I’m assuming, you know, I I was googling it all week. I couldn’t find an answer, you know, because of AI and all that stuff and so they don’t give you these answers, but I couldn’t find an example of a team that was three and seven that had made the playoffs in NFL history. Um, so if they still have a mathematical shot, because I guess technically they can go seven and 0 and get 10 wins. Um, you know, but that shot has got to be less than 1% at this point. Like 0.2% chance of making the playoffs. So that’s cooked. They got to go six and one to get to a playoff uh to a winning record. That was the second condition that we were talking about. If not playoffs, you got to get to at least nine and eight, right? Or eight eight and one. Yeah. Yeah. 8 eight and one. Um so, uh you know, they got to go six and one the rest of the way. That don’t seem like it’s happening. Again, we would love to see it. I would love to be sitting here like, “Oh my god, the Falcons are about to have the strongest finish ever in NFL history.” But we know that ain’t happening. And then so the third thing was like, you know, the two out of the three um conditions are pretty much out the window. So the third condition was basically you got to make Arth you got to sell Arthur Blank that your development of Michael Penn is essential to his long-term success that by the year the end of the season, Penn is going to be playing elite football. that you’re going to be able to sell this ownership group on telling them, “Hey, if you fire us and you bring in a new a better quarterback guru or whatever to develop Michael Penn, you’re going to disrupt his development and that’s going to be a mistake.” Obviously, we’re not getting that on the field. And now with Penn’s unknown injury status looming forward, you know, could be done for an extended period of time, could be back this week. We have no idea. Again, Rahee Morris ain’t giving you clean in injury updates. is going to be like, “Oh, well, you know, he’s he’s weak to weak and then he misses every game.” I I don’t know. You you know how Raheem is, right? Um and so if if that’s off the table, if Pennock’s finishing strong because of now this injury, however long it keeps him out of the lineup, if that’s now off the table, what what else is there, right? What else do we have going for us at this point for the Falcons? But why why are all of us here, right? I’m I’m having an existential crisis, ladies and gentlemen. I’m like, what is the meaning of life now if I don’t have at least this one thing to look forward to of being able to sit here and say, you know, hey, Michael Penn is doing stuff? Because if he ain’t doing stuff, ain’t nobody else doing stuff. Hey, Drake, Bean, you you did some stuff today. But the rest of y’all, no. But we’ll see. We’ll hopefully get an update tomorrow. So hopefully that will be a topic of discussion on tomorrow that oh the Falcons dodge a bullet and we’ll have something something going for this team because Lord knows if we can’t talk about Michael Penn’s development then we have nothing at this point in time. But let’s talk about the Pennix pump meter because maybe this is the last pump meter we’ll do this entire season which again is a sad state of affairs. We don’t know. Might be our last one. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the Pinnix pump meter, we do this every week after the game. Sort of my initial thoughts on the play of the Falcons young quarterback. We measure it off of four levels. Zero pumps, one pump, two pumps, three pumps, right? Going back to the Key and Peele sketch, for those of you that have been following the Carolina Panthers and Rico Dao, as of late, you understand. Hingle Mcringleberry, you know what I’m talking about, right? It’s it’s now in the zeitgeist. you know, we No, we didn’t start it, but we we were trying to put it out there in the tight guys for a long time. And Rico Dattle boosted uh the signal boost and now now it feels a lot more relevant than it felt for some of you guys like I don’t like the pump meter back in August. But anyway, zero pumps, nothing of a kind of nothing burger of a game. One pump is a solid game manager type performance for Michael Penn. Two pumps is peak, right? That’s the best of Michael Penn. Three pumps is two pumps too is is a pump too many. you you you’ve gone too far. To me, this is kind of a one pump performance. You look at the stat sheets, 13 for 16, 174 yards. The numbers look good, but numbers make it look like a two- pump performance. Again, we’ll see what the film says, but like to me, watching it live, like Pennix’s accuracy issues that showed up quite a bit last week against Berlin and or against the Colts in Berlin kind of showed up in this game. He was throwing a lot of high passes to Drake London. Now, Drake was making some great catches and like to so to me like a lot of the box score that I’m looking at a lot of that to me feels like Drake London like like you know Drake London doing his thing uh you know having his flu game uh so to speak you know having a back injury all week because he’s been carrying this offense uh basic he exited the game late as well so we’ll we’ll have to wait and see on that one because the Lord knows oh Michael Bennett’s no Drake London oh god oh god but we’ll we’ll circle back to that. So, to me, it was kind of a one pump performance. I might bump it up to a one and a half pump performance, but like to me, the eyeball test did not tell me this was a two-p performance, even though the box score might tell you that, but it was a decent bounceback game for Michael Penn. Unfortunately, we don’t know how much of a bounceback because we didn’t get to see him in the fourth quarter. And maybe that could have been had he come through in the clutch late in the game, we would have been giving this a two- pump performance. So, um I’m going to go with one pump. We’ll see if the if I come back and and watch the film and be like, “Oh, this is better than I gave it credit for.” Uh, we’ll So, we’ll see on that. But, you know, now that we talked about Michael Penn and his unknown status moving forward, let’s talk about Raheem Morse’s unknown status because I know all of you were sitting here chomping at the bit basically saying, you know, Raheem should have been fired yesterday. Uh, and so I talked about going into this game, this was a possible game where if the Falcons did not perform the way that we wanted them to do, Raheem could possibly get fired. So, you’re wondering, do I think based off of what I saw this particular day? Do I think Raheem’s going to get fired? I’m going to wake up tomorrow and find out that Raheem’s been fired. I don’t think so, but we’ll see. 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And I want to thank you for making Lockdown the number one podcast in the galaxy. number one podcast network in the galaxy. Yes, it’s a great place to be. Not a great place to be if you’re an Atlanta Falcon, though. Um, you know, any sliver of a chance that Raheem Morris was going to be back in 2026 probably went out the door today, right? We we we will say we will acknowledge the possibility that, you know, that Falcons could go six and one and get to nine and eight and Arthur Bikes are going to be like, “Oh my god, this was incredible. Raheem, please come back and and and do it again and and and it’s not going to be a repeat of the Dan Quinn situation from 2019 to 2020. It’s going to be different this time, right? Because that’s what we tell ourselves every offseason, right? This time it’s going to be different, right? But, you know, I acknowledge that possibility that that is a possible outcome just like I think all of you should acknowledge the possibility that Salahek is offcreen right now butt naked waiting for me to finish this podcast. So, if this feels like I’m rushing this podcast a little bit because I got people to do and things to see, right? You should acknowledge that possibility just like I acknowledge the possibility that the Falcons finished six and one. And again, I’m sure some of you like, “What what is Aaron talking about? Like, what is what is this? Is this what the show is going to be? Just Aaron making weird references to butt naked Mexican women off offscreen?” I’m like, “Might as well be because what else are we going to talk about, right?” The idea of sitting here watching this team for the next seven games without Michael Penn on the field is maybe the worst thing I’ve ever said on this podcast in my entire life. Like I can’t even fathom that. Again, like I said, existential crisis right now. You’re witnessing it, right? And I’m making up fantasies about butt naked Mexican women on the podcast just to deal with it. That’s the only thing that I can handle at this point. I’m going through a midlife crisis. I got to get back into therapy, guys. It’s crazy, right? So, all that said, all this nonsense going on the podcast as I’m going through a mental breakdown, ladies and gentlemen, live on on your airwaves, you know, we got to talk about are the Falcons going to fire Raheem Morris, right? And that’s going to be the ongoing topic of discussion because that’s all we’re really going to talk about if we don’t have Michael Pennix to talk about rest of the season because Lord knows it’s like is this the week we fire Raheem? Is this the week we fire Raheem? And for the longest time this season, I’ve been like, “Nah, this is not going to be the week that they were fire Raheem.” And this week was the first time all season where I was like, they might fire Raheem. And after, you know, watching this team go up and have another collapse, you know, as they often do, could this be the week? It’s possible. I don’t think it’s likely. I don’t think it’s likely, but we’ll see. We’ll see. But this is going to be it’s is this is what the podcast is going to be. Well, this this could be the week. This could be the week. So, we’ll see. And so, now every week is going to be Raheem watch. And, you know, part of my issue is like I’m lazy. I don’t want to have to talk about that during the show. I just, you know, I just want to talk about what happens in the game on Sunday, review the film, talk about who’s playing well, what, you know, what are the pieces that we can build around. So, I’m lazy. I just want to keep doing what I got to do. But at the same time, you know, it at least will give us something new and different to talk about because at this point in time, like you guys saw it on the Friday show with me and Jarvis where I was like, we didn’t really talk about this Carolina game because it’s like what else is there to say about this Falcons team at this stage, you know, now 10 games into the season that hasn’t been said. All right, cool, man. Right. Like even you know tomorrow’s episode that we when we get a second look at the game like whatever man you know I don’t care. I’m sorry guys. I’m sorry. It’s just it’s just like you’re just sitting I’m just like I’m sitting here like oh god. Oh man. You know thank god for locked on being the number one podcast because network on the planet because boy this this would be tough. This would be tough, you know, if I wasn’t sitting here getting these checks. It would be tough. So, we’ll see. We’ll see. We’ll spend the next two months talking about firing He and talking about how terrible the coach this team is, which it is. The coaching is terrible. Like, no one’s sitting here saying the coaches, but like the problem is going to be, at least for me personally, people are going to convince themselves that the next coach is going to be the savior. And it’s like, no, he’s not, right? And people are going to convince themselves that, oh man, this this team is so loaded with talent. And I’ve I’ve heard this conversation for the better part of a decade. Talent, talent. Oh, this this talent, the talent, the talent, the talent, the talent. And they’ve been outplayed by the Carolina Panthers twice. They got out physical by the Miami Dolphins. I’m so tired of people trying to pretend that this is a talented team. They’re more talented than the record right now. They’re more talented than the way that they’re playing. This is not a good football team. This is not a well- constructed team. So, you know, the only thing that giving me joy is the possibility that they just completely blow this thing up at the end of the season and this team finally gets the reset that it does and hopefully hopefully ownership. Please, Arthur Blank, if you’re listening, please, the next people that come in here, give them the path to build this thing rather than this whole like, oh, well, we’re just one piece away and then we’ll be we just got to solve this one problem. Hey, if we just get a nose tackle in the corner, oh, we’re gonna be back in the hunt, guys. Oh, we got another wide receiver. Oh, we’re right back in this nonsense, right? I love this fan base, man. I I appreciate this fan base. You guys are the reason why Locked On is number one, right? Because you guys I love it, man. You’ve watched this team for now going on eight years have losing records, but every year you find a way to convince yourself that this is this is secretly an 11- win team. You know, it’s just it’s just the coaching that’s holding us back or the quarterback that’s holding us back. And we’ll be this is an 11- win roster, guys. Watch the games. They got beat by a seven- win roster today. So, at least y’all stay consistent. I appreciate that for you. So looking forward to them losing next week to Tyler Shuck and the Saints and then we’re just going to convince ourselves that you know this Saints team that everybody thought was going to win two games this year. But you know we’re we’re secretly 11 win roster. So yeah, that’s I’m looking forward to that conversation this offseason. So as you can tell I hate it here. I absolutely hate it here. Uh, and uh, watching this game, you know, I had convinced, you know, this is this is why I’m going through this because I convinced myself watching the game like, “Oh, they’re actually going to win this.” And then I realized, “Oh, no, they’re not going to win this.” And I’ll break down exactly the moment when I was like, “Oh, no, they’re not going to win this game.” And we’ll get into that to wrap up today’s lock on Valkans. [Laughter] Excuse me. The NBA season is back and there’s no better place to get in on the action than with FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you missed the tip off of a game or you’re just looking to ride the hot hand, FanDuel is going to have those live bets from everything who’s who’s going to score next to all of those fourth quarter comebacks. Plus, you can even combine those live bets into a same game parlay for a shot at a bigger payout. It keeps every game exciting, especially when your team’s making that late game push. 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Um, and Falcons tie it up seven to seven and you know the through line of like, oh, okay, you got to watch the first two series with the Falcons on offense to know if their offense is going to show up on a given day. And usually they lay a stinker for one of those series and then one of the other series they they do really well. And so that proved true. And so after that second series, Falcons score 14 uncontested points at that point in time. have a 27 21-7 lead. You know, just hey, you know, they after that third score, you know, 90 seconds left in in the first half, he’s like, defense, you know, Panthers are going to get the ball to start the third quarter, so we just need to get a stop here and then we’ll be good, right? You know, Panthers are probably going to score on one of these two drives, but if we can just get one stop, we’ll be good, right? We’ll still have a two uh score lead at that point. So 90 seconds and then immediately Ted McMillan goes 39 yards on the first snap on the dig route. We love that cover three. You know, we saw Jaylen Wadd cook it. And if if Ted had Jaylen Wadd speed, he would have scored, but fortunately he got he got walked out. Um and fortunately the Falcons Stevens holds in the red zone. Can’t make the grab. He’s open in the back of the end zone. Xavier Watts gets a fingertip on it, but it’s like Ted versus AJ. We were hoping that we would see AJ lock him down and AJ did not lock him down. And so, you know, it felt like, okay, the Mike Evans era is over of watching AJ get beat by a 65 wide receiver for the last 12 years. Or not AJ for the last 12 years. Mike Evans been cooking for 12 years. Uh, and only AJ for five of those 12. Um, and it’s like, okay, that era is over. And then now we got 12 more years of Ted McMillan because uh AJ didn’t play that first game for those of you that missed it. And so we’re like, “Okay, AJ will come in back and and lock down Tat.” And it’s like, “Okay, all right.” Well, that didn’t work. And so the Panthers get the ball in the second half. Natron Brooks gets cooked on back-to-back plays, including a 36-y touchdown to Xavier Legette. So, the Panthers basically scored nine points in in five minutes, you know, in the final 90 seconds of the second quarter in the first three minutes of the third quarter. Um, they don’t convert uh two-point conversion at that point. Should have just kicked it. Again, I don’t understand why teams are chasing points at that point in time. Just kick the field goal, go down four. Going down three at that point, you know, 12 minutes, you know, three minutes into the third quarter doesn’t make any sense. But appreciate you Panthers. you, you know, you put this thing away for us. But, um, or you gave us a chance because, you know, anyway, doesn’t matter. Um, and then Nathan Brooks gets cooked on those two plays and then he fumbles to kick off, the ensuing kickoff. So, it was a tough day for Natron, you know, and it’s a tough day for me because now everybody’s going to be like, Kobe Bryant should be starting because Kobe Bryant played in this game and was decent, you know, and with Mike Hughes being injured and D offer being injured and, you know, everybody convincing themselves that Kobe Bryant was a starting caliber quarterback and unfortunately, you know, me being the one person being like, I don’t really buy that um based off of all I’ve seen from Kobe Bryant, but unfortunately, you know, that brand is taking a hit today. Kobe Bright didn’t play like a starter, but because when you’re looking at, well, what other options do the Falcons have? It’s like, well, might as well start him and see what’s what. And so, here we go. Clark Phillips all over again. I got to do it. People are like, we don’t need a quarterback now because we got Kobe Bryant again. That tells me you got an undrafted free agent that is meant to be the savior of your football team, but y’all want to sit here and convince yourselves that this is a good roster. But hey, you know, y’all do you. So, you know, fortunately after that kickoff fumble, the defense gets a stop, but the offense is kind of dead in the water. Carolina’s able to come back. Pennix gets injured. You know, they retake the lead with like 27 27 24 with a minute to go. Sitting here going like, I don’t I don’t feel confident that Kirk’s going to lead him back. But then Jamal Agnu busts a 40- yard return. It’s like, okay, all right. We just need like two first downs and we’re in field goal range and David Sills shows up. It’s like, oh my god, David SS 11 yard catch. I’m like, oh my god, what what is this happen? What? I’ve never seen David Sills catch a pass before. This is incredible. This is this is this is you know this is outrageous. Um and then you know eventually it sets up for a game time field goal and I had to learn the kicker’s name. I finally learned the kicker’s name and I have it written down just so I so forget it. The Falcons kicker is Zayn Gonzalez. Okay, Zay Gonzalez. There you go. Had to write it down. So, uh you know, if those of you that are listening to the podcast like what is what is this? What bit is this? For those of you that missed it, I basically because of the Falcons revolving door, you know, the funniest thing you can do is explain a joke. Uh because the Falcons revolving door at the kicking position, I basically am like I’m refusing to learn the new kicker’s name because he’s got to earn that knowledge. And Zayn earned it. He he made a couple kicks in his game. Barely. Uh so, you know, we we will learn his name just in time for him to ruin it next week against the Saints. So, good good on you, Zane. Good on you, Zane. So, you got that. So, of course, the Falcons do nothing in overtime. you know, and I had to look it up because I was like, man, it doesn’t feel like the Falcons ever win an overtime game. I can’t remember the last time they went an overtime game. And I forgot about the week five game last year, uh, where Cado Hodge had the walk-off touchdown. And Carolina was like, “We didn’t forget about the Cadero Hodge walk-off touchdown against this the Bucks in week five last year because Tommy Trimble almost had a walk-off touchdown right away. A 54 yard play. Kate Nel thankfully caught him. Terrible tackling. Sets up the game-winning 28 yard field goal.” And so to me, the game-changing moment came in regulation where when I was like, “Oh, they’re not winning this game.” I I still had hope. And then Rico Do busted a 38 yard screen for a touchdown. Uh now, fortunately, the review called it back and called him out at the 10 yard line. So, it was only a 28 yard non-scoring screen. But when the when the Falcons got beat by a screen, I was like, “Yeah, yep. That’s That’s not good, right? So, the moment when Carolina went up with the gamewinning score. So, I stupidly had hope, guys. As you can tell, I had hope for 58 and a half minutes of this football game that the Falcons were going to win this game. Now, I had a pit in my stomach the entire like second half of this game being like, “Oh, no. They’re doing everything in their power to lose this game.” But I still had that fleeting hope. It wasn’t until I knew officially the Falcons weren’t going to you, you know, and then even then they go back and, you know, after that D play, they go back and score to tie the game and send in overtime and then Carolina wins the toss and they elected to kick and I was like, “Oh, okay. Now, now we’re definitely losing.” Okay, because we’re not going to do anything on this first offensive possession. And he was right. You’re right. Shout out to you, Ryan Nel. You got an ineligible man downfield wiping out a 12- yard gain and killing all of our momentum. And again, that’s not on Ryan Noosel. That’s on this team and their inability to execute screens. You know, Luke Gatsy is somewhere smiling somewhere being like, “Hey, I’m not the only OC that can’t teach his guys how to execute screens properly.” Um, you know, it was a slow developing play. So, it’s not even really News’s fault on that particular play. And again, that that tells you how poorly coached the Falcons are that they can’t execute a stinking screen to save your life. And again, you know that take out whatever game that was, whether it was the 49ers or Bills game where I sat here on this podcast being like, “They should just run screens to Bean and they’ll work every time. They’ll get 15 yards a pop.” Ever since then, they I don’t think they’ve executed a single screen yet. It’s been like six weeks. So, that’s my bad, guys. I changed it. You know, Zack Zack, you know, Zach is an every day of this podcast. He was like, “Yeah, let’s do that.” And then they didn’t practice screens at all. So that was the moment. Yep. Yep. So tell let me know when the moment was for you when you knew the Falcons were going to lose. I mean I I kind of woke up today expecting a loss, but you know that’s just me. You you know you guys know that’s just me. I wake up every day expecting to lose. Oh boy. Oh it’s we got seven more weeks of this, man. Oh god. Oh god. All right. So, we’ll we’ll do our best to to make it entertaining. We’ll do our best. So, come back tomorrow. Check us out. We’ll be here. YouTube, wherever you listen to podcast. Thank you for making the Lockdown Podcast Network the number one sports podcast network in the galaxy. And uh if you want to hear what’s going on elsewhere around the league in week 11, go check out Lockdown NFL. They have two shows to catch you up with all the NFL action all across the league. The biggest stories. Maybe they’ll be talking about Raheem getting fired tomorrow. So, we’ll see. So, go check it out as your second listen. It’s all part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Your team every day.

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. suffers another concerning knee injury in a 30-27 OT defeat to the Carolina Panthers. With Penix’s status uncertain and the team dropping to 3-7, pressure mounts on head coach Raheem Morris. Host Aaron Freeman dissects Penix’s injury scare, the persistent struggles of the Falcons’ offense despite Drake London’s big catches, and defensive breakdowns against Bryce Young and the Panthers’ playmakers. The conversation spotlights Raheem Morris’s job security, what Penix’s development (or absence) now means for the franchise, and the crushing reality of Atlanta’s playoff math. Plus, hear why every remaining game feels like a countdown to change. Are the Falcons just one move away, or stuck in a cycle of disappointment?

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