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SATAN said:

I don’t think I’d ever seen him actually play before this year. He’s always played on teams that were mostly inconsequential to us. I honestly feel bad for the guy because he had just begun to start making the rounds in Atlanta as “The New Guy” when Penix was drafted. He had been appearing at children’s hospitals meeting sick kids. Stuff athletes do when they’re looking to embrace their new fanbase. Maybe a week prior to the draft, they had him toss the ceremonial first pitch at a Braves game and had him guest on commentary for a few innings. Then they blind sighted everyone at the draft. A lot of (ahem) fans immediately turned in him and it’s mostly been downhill from there. He’s taken a beating on sports talk radio all season even when he was playing fine because of that section of (ahem) fans pretty much wanted Penix to play no matter what and there wasn’t much he could do in their eyes to change that opinion. When he actually started playing bad, the pitchforks were already out. All across social media that section of (ahem) fans are talking about how Penix is going to unlock the Falcons offense. I see that as a naive assumption. The Falcons were a mess before Cousins got here and will probably be a mess for the foreseeable future so it’s hard to place his failure square on his shoulders. Our kicker fell apart at roughly the same time, so it’s been odd watching two established vets lose their way in this fashion, but it is what it is.