Watching 2024 Penix tape makes it clear Zac Robinson and DJ Williams should be in jail for whatever the hell they did in 2025 training camp

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1. I haven’t watched any film, but watching in real time with a casual assessment – the regression felt very real.

2. These are some beautiful throws

3. Notice the use of normal play action. Not having Bijan do jet sweep motion and making your developing QB do a 360 spin and completely take his eyes off the field.

4. I get people being skeptical, but people ready to dump Penix before he takes one snap under Stefanski and Rees boggle my mind

5. This is what I’ve been saying for months. Towards the end of the 2024 season, this man looked like exactly what you want to see in a rookie. A little unpolished but with lots of potential, arm talent, vision, etc. He made some ridiculous throws. Then this year…he just felt neutered. Tentative, more mistake prone. Idk what went wrong, but I’m excited for next season with a new regime.

6. It makes me wonder if the coaching staff was more worried about Penix getting hurt than Penix himself thus causing him to regress as a player due to the play calling. His deep ball was non existent this past season with the exception of about 3 plays total and 2 were borderline considered mid range throws.

7. These plays look WAY more well designed than anything he did in 2025, Zac tried to over complicate things too much. Stefanski/Rees scheme is gonna be a much more simpler one and it’ll be easier for Penix to process things, I also trust this staff a LOT more to help actually develop Penix

8. They failed him.

9. I thought he looked great at the end of the Commanders game driving them at the end to tie it up.

   However, I have felt on average it usually takes NFL defensive coordinators 4 games of film to *really* figure out what your offense is doing and how to break it.

   Even with Ryan and Shanahan in 2015 the offense was doing great, until about week 5 then it started to struggle and teams were able to put the clamps on it.

   I did not like it when Arthur Smith waited until the last 4 games to start Ridder because I didn’t think it was going to give them an accurate idea of what they were working with.

   Same thing with Penix but there was the additional mess that TF created by signing Cousins and then turning around and drafting Penix.

   Now the reset button has been hit. So he has a clean slate but he has to prove he can be a starting NFL QB.

10. I didn’t play football, but in most sports, crossing your feet is almost always wrong and he does it a few times. For those who know, is that an issue? Otherwise I agree, total regression from his strengths and a lack of putting him in positions to succeed.

11. Plenty of young QBs start their careers off hot because NFL teams have little to no tape on them in an NFL offense. Plenty of young QBs take a step back once opponents get NFL tape on them and expose their weaknesses. Penix’s career won’t be defined by that initial high or the subsequent low. It’ll be defined by his response to the highs and lows. He has to wade through the muck and find consistency. If he can do that, he’ll stick around for a long time, health-permitting.

12. NFL opponents watch film also and adjust to what a QB is good at.

13. It was a small sample size and the only above 20th defense he played was WAS. This is why you need to watch whole games. He struggled at the beginning of the WAS game. He has this Ridder thing going on where he starts off badly. First quarters and usually much of second quarters are seldomly good for him. Because of inaccurate throws and reads. And then the team gets behind and he starts to get better. Then by the fourth quarter, he has to bring the team back. Penix flashed more during his rookie year, but there were the same kinks in the armor. They were just magnified in year 2 with more starts. Which is what happens.