ESPN NFL LIVE | Dan Orlovsky STUNS, Atlanta Falcons Will Be A PROBLEM For The NFL

ESPN NFL LIVE | Dan Orlovsky STUNS, Atlanta Falcons Will Be A PROBLEM For The NFL

I said, uh, what was your big takeaway from this Falcons win over Buffalo at home? Yeah, that young talent is starting to really learn how to play NFL football. I fully expect Bjon Robinson to be at or very near the top of the MVP list come November. I think if you’re an NFC playoff team, if you’re the the Philadelphia Eagles, if you’re the Los Angeles Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, can you stop the outside zone? That’s unapologetically who this football team is with their two backs, Robinson and Alier. And if you defensively can’t corral that, can’t set the edge, can’t run through the backside of the gaps and tackle very well, this team’s going to be a problem. And so all those NFC playoff teams, man, this is a football team that has a clear identity on offense of what they want to do. and their young their young stars of Bejon and Drake London and Michael Penn are just at least offensively starting to put it together. They’re great, but for Falcons fans, I feel like the revelation has to have had been or has to was last night watching a pass rush for the first time in like 15 plus years. I mean, I’m sure it must have felt like a revelation watching back some of those pressures. Uh the two players who jumped out to me on tape were the two backers Kade Nellis and Devon Diablo. They blitzed a great deal. The more that Josh Allen has been blitzed in quite some time and they had a 44% brush pressure rate made a ton of sense by the way leaning into that because uh Kane Nellis I think is one of the best blitzing linebackers in football. But the other thing that really jumped out to me, Dan, watching them is not only were they able to pressure Allen, they were able to contain him while they were blitzing. And Ellis in particular, my goodness, it wasn’t him hanging back and spying. He was coming as a rusher, but then keeping eyes on Allen. And there were so many moments where in the past you felt like, oh, Allen’s going to take off. He’s going to scramble for a first down. And the backers were able to track him down. Just an outstanding performance by those two as part of what uh I’m sure for Falcons fans is a very exciting night. Yeah, Atlanta Falcons. I’ve been waiting all day to talk about this game. Nobody wants to talk about Michael Pennock. Nobody wants to talk about the Atlanta Falcons. And I kept saying to myself, I know is going to I know NFL Live is going to do it. You just got to wait. You just got to wait. And it was it was it was driving me crazy waiting all this long cuz this was a huge win. This was a massive win for the Atlanta Falcons. Michael Pennix played awesome. Pjun Robinson obviously was a monster. Raheem Morris finally getting that earning that paycheck with that defense coming in hot. Why they went all in on the draft defensively, etc. Like you you start to finally see it come to fruition. They made life for Josh Allen miserable. A lot of people want to say, “Oh, Josh Allen, he wasn’t good enough this that.” And it’s like, “No, the Atlanta Falcons came to play. The Atlanta Falcons made life miserable for Josh Allen and that Buffalo Bills offense. Nobody was ever open. Josh Allen was constantly flushed out of the pocket. I mean, the pressure was nonstop, relentless. Pennix was making some highlevel throws. That one touchdown pass to Drake London. Oh my goodness. This is why again I had to wait so long and it was driving me crazy. That’s why Atlanta Falcons fans, you you got to subscribe. You got to rise to the occasion. You got to watch the full length of the video so we can get more and more and more Atlanta Falcons fans on this channel. So we can just really start to easily make Atlanta Falcons videos so I can just keep pumping them out with any issue without any fear of just like nobody watching it because when you guys watch the full length video like this is what happens. We just go vertical and we create an avalanche of views and subscribers and comments. so we can have real conversations so we can actually discuss the Atlanta Falcons more cuz unfortunately the Falcons are one of a few teams where it’s just like you never know I make a video and 100 people watch it and four comments happened and you’re just like all right nobody wants to talk about it and as you can see the herd’s not really covering it first things first not covering it like I there was like nothing out there and it was it was driving me crazy it really was it was driving me crazy because you guys all know that I’ve been way hype uh on Michael Penn and this was just an awesome game this was an awesome game. I I I said this when I was talking about this from the from the Buffalo Bills perspective where I was just like, you know, you’re watching this game and I never really felt that the Buffalo Bills were going to pull it off after that fumble that then got called back obviously with Bejian Robinson. You just never felt like the Buffalo Bills had a chance ever. You the the the Atlanta Falcons were in control of this game the entire time. The entire time. It wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t flawless. They they they opened up the door a little bit uh for them. This is a young team. It it takes time to be able to consistently close out games, but I was really impressed. I was really impressed. The play calling, they were unapologetic about it. They were smart. They were aggressive. They were assertive. They played to win. They didn’t play not to lose. They played like they belong, not like they were just trying to get an invite to the party. And I think uh Lewis Reic said it best where he’s like, “This is the search.” I think I wrote it down. Uh, you know, the the the the search with relevancy. Yeah. Search for relevancy. Search to be relevant. And the Falcons have not been. And winning this puts you in that category. Puts you in that position. And it’s really frustrating because the Falcons should be right up there in the in in their division. They should have beat the Bucks, which which could have devastating consequences down the road right now. But that’s why you just you you got to keep winning. You you you burned a couple of your bridges, right? Getting smoked by the uh uh Carolina Panthers. You you you burned the games that you probably should have won. You burned that. Stay on track. Stay on track. This team should have learned a ton about themselves now. Both sides of the ball, both the the coaching staff as a whole, you know what you have now. You have the game plan. You understand how to put Pennix in a position to succeed. You understand if you didn’t know before who you have than Bjan Robinson and Azir and and Drake London and anyone else you want to throw in there. Like this game was just we’re getting after it. This is one of the first Atlanta Falcons games that I watched in a while that I really felt everyone understood the assignment. Everyone understood what they needed to do. The game plan was clear. It was clear. It was defined on both sides of the ball. I could actually look at the Atlanta Falcon and say, “That’s a well- coached team right there. That was a well coached team. That team was ready to play. They were not surprised. They came out aggressive from the jump.” When I first saw the Atlanta Falcons, uh opening drive and they score, I’m thinking to myself, um you know, okay, that was good. It’ll be interesting. Scripted drive, opening drive at home. We’ll see how this continues to unfold. And it kept unfolding pretty well. I mean, even the play that didn’t turn into a touchdown, uh when Drake London stepped out of bounds, I think it was Drake London, right? When he stepped out of bounds, like even that was special. Again, I know it didn’t pan out, but there were some really high levels. The best quarterback of the night was Drake London. I said that in my postgame clip again. I don’t know why I keep saying Drake London’s a quarterback. That’s that is driving me nuts. Michael Pennix was the best quarterback on Monday night. I’m not saying he’s going to continue to be the best quarterback. I’m not going to say that he’s going to have the best career out of all of them. He was the best quarterback on Monday night. He played really, really high level ball. And it’s frustrating that people aren’t talking about it enough. It’s so frustrating that people aren’t even talking about the Atlanta Falcons enough. There was like just no conversations on any of the main shows really about the Atlanta Falcons, Michael Penn, Raheem Morris defense, Bejan Robinson. Like I I don’t understand. Like I like I know Pennix his um his box score wasn’t just like earthshattering or anything like that but he just made some really highlevel high quality difficult throws. I just was really impressed with it especially considering like this is his rookie year for all intents and purposes. This is him still learning, growing and evolving. Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, Drake May even, like they they they have more time on task at the NFL level than Penn. So like I I am very much grading Michael Penn still on this rookie curve. So I’m not expecting him to be perfect. I’m not expecting him to be flawless. It’s why I expected better from the coaching staff to put this offense in a position to succeed, which is why I was so harsh and hard on them in the beginning of the season, throughout the season. and I’ll continue to be so. But like this has been great and the defense is elevated and now the offense is starting to catch up and again it’s not that difficult. Get the ball to Bian Robinson. Get the ball to be John Robinson. I mean they even said on the broadcast Louis Rick is like you got I don’t know he’s like man but be you know be John Robinson has to touch the ball every single down here you know and it’s and it’s true. Don’t try to overthink it. Don’t try to be the smartest man in the room. just just just do what you need to do because the thing I I think Michael Pennock played an awesome game on Monday and he also had the best luxury out of any other team. You know, he had Bejian Robinson. He had Bejian Robinson and arguably the best defense and not arguably the best defense of the night as well. And so you you want to be able to have a clear-cut win in that regard because things got dicey for a second near the end. You’re kind of like, “All right.” But again, I was still kind of looking at it was like, okay, maybe the the the Bills tie it up. Like again, no real confidence that they would even be able to tie it up. And even if they did, you’re kind of like, all right, well, Falcons, okay, they’ll get the ball back. Again, these are obviously made up scenarios where if there was a situation where the Bills were able to tie it up uh with like a minute 45 to go or something, you’re like, I I I don’t think I don’t I don’t feel like the that the Falcons can’t win this game, that they can’t get into field goal range, right? There was just a tremendous amount of belief. I’m watching this game, every level of it, 5 minutes into the first quarter, 8 minutes into the second quarter, the beginning of the third quarter, and I’m like, the Falcons are in control of this game. I’m watching this game thinking the Buffalo Bills are going to lose this game. You are going to need some pretty strong heroics from Josh Allen and an absolute complete collapse from the Atlanta Falcons. It’s a great place to be in. It’s a great place to be in. So, this is a huge win. It’s really frustrating that it’s understated. We can never just focus on what we see in the here and now, but this this deserves to be praised. This deserves to be emphasized. Um, and I’m trying my best to do it. But those are just my thoughts. I’d absolutely love to hear yours. What do you guys all think about um Michael Penn and the Atlanta Falcons and Bejian Robinson? 19 rushes, 170 yards. I think he had the one 82 or 83 or 81 yard run. Uh just just a monster. I mean, the one time they counted out he made like five, six guys miss. Just just just a it’s not it’s not even fair to be that strong that fast. It’s not even fair. It’s not fair. But let me know your thoughts in the comments below. I read every single comment. So, you agree with me or disagree with me. Either way, let’s get in some discussions. Let’s get in some fights. But ultimately, let’s just have some fun. And please do consider subscribing. As I said, we are building an amazing community here and I really am trying my best to start an absolute avalanche of the best sports content I possibly can so we can build a community that is firmly rooted in this sports world. Um, so please do consider subscribing and don’t forget to give this video a thumbs up as it really does help with the visibility and the algorithm. Thank you so much. See you next time.

ESPN NFL LIVE | Dan Orlovsky STUNS, Atlanta Falcons Will Be A PROBLEM For The NFL
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