Knuck if you Shough: Previewing Week 3

Mina Kimes (0:04)

Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny.

The only NFL podcast where one of the hosts can't decide whether he's rooting for Kyle Pitts or Matthew Golden. Score more points in this Thursday night game. Two dog named receivers.

Domonique Foxworth (0:21)

You don't have to explain it, we got it, we got it. We're not dumb, two Americans too.

Mina Kimes (0:28)

Not exactly a banger of a guy. Although I will say the fact that Michael Pennings Jr. is playing at least makes it compelling and watchable.

That voice of course is Domonique Foxworth, the host of the Domonique Foxworth podcast, here to help me preview week three. Domonique, are you ready?

Domonique Foxworth (0:44)

Oh yeah.

Mina Kimes (0:46)

Some decent matchups, very backloaded, this one. So as always, we're going to discuss all of the games. Some of them we're going to discuss faster than others.

And I always go through and I pick like the five or six games where I think we both should discuss both sides of the ball. And it really was a lot of games later in the week.

I was excited by Eagles Bears when I looked at the schedule earlier this year, but now we've got Case Keenum. I chose some games because I felt like we haven't talked about the teams in depth, including the 2-0 Las Vegas Raiders against the feisty New Orleans Saints. So we're going to get to that one, but we are going to go in order and we're going to start. Oh, did you see a light flicker? I just I think I just saw a light flicker freaked me out.

I guess when I said the 2-0 Raiders, my room was like, well, with Falcons backers, I'm just doing a key for this one, and I'm not going to get hipster here. Can Michael Pennex Jr. show us something? That's all I care about in this game because the Falcons offense has been unwatchable. They have not reached the red zone. Or wait, was it once? I forgot the stat. It's been Cooper Rush with a little bit of Jack Strand, but Pennex Jr. is finally cleared to play. Two is also cleared to play. He's backing him up. Goes up against a Green Bay Packers defense that I thought played decently last week. Lucas Van Ness was amazing. Domonique, normally with Pennex Jr., I'm always starting from this premise of, let's see where he aligns and also can he throw over the middle of the field at all. But I actually think against this Packers defense, given the weakness of their cornerback group and the strength of the spine, his style of play actually probably works better here in terms of throwing to the perimeter.

Domonique Foxworth (2:33)

What a spot for Michael Pennex Jr. Congratulations, man.

You get to come off of two games where the quarterback play and the offense in general, I think the stat is they haven't been to the red zone at all this season. Yeah. So you get to come off of that. And then I know that the Packers play a little bit better on defense last week against the Jets, but you get a prime time, like isolated standalone Thursday night game against a pretty weak defense. Like this is his opportunity to prove everybody that he can play. I don't know what to expect. I think you're right about attacking outsides, but I don't know. Like this Packers team seems like really volatile, especially offensively and that. So I wouldn't be surprised. And the Falcons defense isn't the 85 Bears, of course. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned into a lot of scoring. I was going to say turns into a shootout, but that's assuming that the team that's never been to the red zone is going to score a lot of points. So I wouldn't be surprised if the Packers put up numbers. Then what Pinnix does with all those weapons, I think, could be interesting.

Mina Kimes (3:40)

On the flip side, you're right. The Falcons defense is not scaring many people. I really hope after last week, watching the Packers tape, Jordan Love is so obviously impacted by the injuries on the offensive line. The game they called was a great example of how when you don't trust your offensive line at all, you have to cut the playbook in half. He had like a 2.3 second time to throw. It is not the love that we're used to.

So my hope is that maybe they feel a little bit more comfortable against the Falcons pass rush. Now, Zach Bacobuele, their right tackle is out for the season. It means Anthony Belton is going to play tackle. It is a dire, scary hours in Green Bay on the offensive line. But the Falcons do not have very good pass rush.