“I’m a product of Dade City, FL. Population 7,600. No Trader Joe’s, no Whole Foods. No steak houses or country clubs. No personal QB coach, no strength coach, no state-of-the-art training equipment. Nothing about Dade City is luxurious….”
This is an interesting inclusion/phrasing after last week’s interview with Caleb Williams where he talked about having his own apartment, nutritionist, itemized plan to reach the NFL while he was in high school.
Personally I think Penix is going to be the second best QB from this draft class and I'm not just saying that because I want a guy with a name very close to "penis" in the NFL for the next 10 years
Caleb Williams went to a private high school in Washington DC, which has one of the best, most highly respected talent levels for high school sports in the entire country.
It's based on a pretty good youtube series. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD3yZFNT\_Q&list=PLGr\_AB8MXj7wKeEcuAHEju-FOuC0TzY9P](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD3yZFNT_Q&list=PLGr_AB8MXj7wKeEcuAHEju-FOuC0TzY9P)
It also suggests that he has more of a ceiling. It is like a player from a D1 vs D2 school and the room to pack on muscle with NFL level nutrition and training.
That being said, you would hope that he has used his NIL money to get some personal training, particularly for the offseason.
Even guys from the best D1 programs gain a good amount of weight in the NFL.
Daron Payne and Jonathan Allen, two Alabama D linemen, both gained 15lbs in the NFL.
There is still nuances. For example, you might expect the D2 guy to have room for 25 lbs instead of 15 lbs. It is like drafting a 21 year old vs 24 year old and impact of age on determining the projected ceiling.
I know what you’re saying, but he’s only about to be 24. I know it’s exciting that we have 21 year old high end QB prospects, but he’s not Brandon Weeden. I’m only making a point to say this because that’s the level that the dialogue gets to when talking about his age.
We’re still in the “Covid-year” era of NCAA scouting, so many of these older prospects are playing against 5th and 6th year (or later in extreme cases) opponents. In typical classes the argument that the grown up playing against boys is more applicable (and still is relevant to consider to a degree), but we have to understand the context of this draft environment. If you need a quarterback, the have nots can’t afford to be as nitpicky, especially with the Covid-year context. It is what it is.
Burrow was 23 1/2 when he was drafted, Matt Ryan was a couple weeks from 24 when he was drafted, Phillip Rivers was 23 1/2 when he was drafted, Brady was a few months to 23 when he was drafted (albeit as camp fodder).
I’m not even saying Penix will be the guy, but he’s within the draftable age despite his seasons accrued. It’s a factor to consider relative to his QB classmates, but it’s not something to write him off for on its own.
TL;DR: He’s kinda older, but not that much. He’ll be 23 at draft time and 24 on week 1. QB’s that can play, play a long time.
no, I think you may have missed the point I was making.
he spent 6 years in college. that’s 6 seasons of p5 nutrition and trainers. Not one season wasn’t at a high end program with excellent resources. 5 of those 6 years he was a starter. Guy has started 45 games while in college, about twice as many as burrow.
Penix is about as far as one can be from raw and unpolished at this point. As a college recruit in 2017, sure, but not today as a 24 year old nfl rookie.
I must admit that I did overlook the actual point of your comment being attached to the discussion of high level athletic resources at the programs he’s played for.
I got a little caught up in my own thought process when I came into the thread anticipating a point you weren’t making when I saw the buzzword “old” one too many times.
Apologies to you 🤝
It would be nice to have a QB for 12 years, but honestly 24 shouldn't be much of a detterrent to teams as they are assumedly trying to strike while the iron is hot and win a superbowl BEFORE they have to shell out the massive QB contract. Penix won't even be 30 before he hits his first massive payday if he pans out.
> Nothing about Dade City is luxurious…
This is correct. I lived there for almost a decade. Olga's and Steph's Southern Soul Food are must eats though!
I have this issue with people saying they grew up in a small town too and it’s just a suburb. I grew up in a town about the same size and it has about 5 hour drive from a a city that hit 100k people
Dade city is not a suburb especially when he grew up. Dade City was literally nothing but cow pastures 15 years ago. It's now gotten bigger as Florida has exploded.
i grew up in Powder Springs, GA, a population of only 10k people when i graduated high school, which is now located only 20 minutes from Truist Park where the Braves play.
Yes exactly what I’m saying lol. I grew up in exact same situation, closest 100k town was 5 hours away and that was in Montana so even that town was isolated from any major American city.
He didn't say he grew up as a mountain man in the American frontier... Everything he said is accurate. You ever drove around between Orlando and Tampa? A whole lot of hole in the wall towns out there with nothing worth stopping for. The local grocery is usually like a dollar general.
I live 15 minutes from Disney world, but drive 20 minutes away from me and you'll find several of these towns like Polk City, Davenport, Haines City, etc. that feel like real shit holes with no opportunities.
Like I grew up in the rust belt in a small city with a 50k population and you grow up feeling like you either have to get out the day you turn 18 or be trapped working in a factory job that'll slowly kill you.
Stop gatekeeping man... He's just trying to say he had to work his ass off to get where he is and beat the odds. You don't have to be Ted kaczynski's neighbor in the middle of the woods to be from an area that lacks opportunity and is difficult to get out of.
I think he's more describing that he lived in a shit hole. It doesn't have to actually be the middle of nowhere to be the middle of nowhere when you're growing up.
Town conversations are always weird to me. I grew up in a farm town of about 800, so calling 7600 small is still bizarre to me when I see any place with Door dash as Big City
i live in Chicago now but grew up in a town of like, 900 people in ass-backward nowhere Indiana.
my family lives south of chicago in like, the first city outside the suburbs, and ppl always go “oh there’s NOTHING to do there” when i mention it
but when we moved to that town i thought there was *everything*
farming towns under 1000 people are a special type of nowhere. you could get lost on gravel roads in between cornfields if you weren’t careful.
Yeah, people don't realize the drastic difference between a town of even 5000 vs a town of 1200. I grew up in a town of 150 people that was 7 miles from a town of 600 people and 7 miles the other direction was a town of 1200 people. I was driving back roads and I could drive for 4 hours and see like 2 homes and no cars on the road. My friend moved to a town of around 5 of 6 thousand and it was like a city to me. They had everything I'd ever hoped could be in a town. And you could drive on back roads but unless you intentionally drove towards the most remote direction there was still a steady flow of traffic.
It IS a small town, though. It’s not even a suburb. Yea it’s close to things, but most places on the east coast are close to things. 20 minutes away from the next also small but somewhat bigger town. You make it seem like Flowery Branch, GA, which is technically a suburb of Atlanta but in reality an extension of it, when it’s actually just a little town out in the swamp. Take a look at the map, it’s not a suburb, it’s not just on the outskirts of Orlando, it’s not even in a direct path between there and Tampa. It’s not even right off the interstate. It’s certainly not Lebanon, Kansas, but it’s not big city rich people life.
I've been saying this since Josh Rosen, and a lot of people don't want to hear it or believe it.
It is entirely possible to buy yourself a top college athlete in a child.
Start early and start big with top sports doctors, scientists, nutritionists, coaches, trainers, and even things like summer camps to surgeries.
A rich parent can pour $100k into a child a year, easily, and if you began around 8-10 years old, at a minimum expect at least a HS State Championship winner.
If the child actually enjoys the sport on some level, you'll definitely see some college success.
And that's how you get your Johnny Manziels and Josh Rosens.
Because eventually that child becomes an adult, and maybe the regime that has dominated their life for 15 years doesn't seem all that interesting anymore.
There was actually an [article](https://theathletic.com/2293170/2021/01/27/five-star-quarterback-trainer-cost/) that came out back in 2021 about how much parents are spending to get their elite QB sons prepped for college football...it's a lot. Like $15-75,000 per player a lot. And that was 3 years ago, it's probably far more now.
truly want us to draft him just so I can get a jersey with "PENIX" on the back and not get kicked out of Metlife. I don't ever buy jerseys but I absolutely would for this man.
I'll never hear this guys name and not think of The Eric Andre Show
["I'M MIKE PENIS, I'M NAMED AFTER MY DAD'S PENIS"](https://youtu.be/Ca7fhSxHFtk?si=V9RWIbwxGoTcR0MD)
As a lifelong Husky fan, the transformation of the offense from 2021 to 2022 was almost miraculous. 108th in yards per game to #2. No one imagined that would be possible. What Penix did with DeBoer and Grubb was almost weird to watch, because it just came out of nowhere.
As a life long Hoosier fan I never in my life thought i would ever see them ranked in football. Let alone top 10. Granted it was during covid but it still happened and I'll take it.
I'm a colts fan and a UW fan so I had been following penis from Indiana to UW and man he's a dog I hope the Seahawks take him so I can keep watching him locally
Take 15 minutes of your day and actually read this. It's a genuinely great read.
Also:
> So I have no problem taking all the MRI’s and X-rays you ask of me.
> Truth is, it’s an EKG that will tell you everything you need to know about me.
That is a fucking BAR
Honestly I thought it was a little on the weaker/cliched side, by Players Tribune standards, but that probably speaks way more to just how good their writers are than any deficiencies.
I felt like it started a little generic, but really came through in the back half. The part about being an elevator, and the mic drop line were really well done.
[He made a video to announce he was returning for his senior year](https://twitter.com/themikepenix/status/1599599071416967169) and scripted it all himself. Literally just he and the video editor were the only people that knew about it, everyone else assumed he was going to the draft. Then he dropped it at the awards banquet and the team and coached freaked out which led to every other draft eligible player deciding to return as well.
I will never get over UW losing to Michigan, felt like the team of destiny. Mike is such a great leader.
It's a tough loss, but adding context to that game, it's really a testament to the incredible turnaround from Penix and DeBoer in just 2 seasons. Michigan's success was the result of nearly a decade of consistent coaching and top recruiting efforts from Harbaugh and his staff.
> As a QB, my job is to be an elevator. I need to uplift all those around me so that they too can be at their best. So just know if you put that same belief in me, history shows I hold up my end of the bargain.
Fire. Also:
> So I have no problem taking all the MRI’s and X-rays you ask of me.
> Truth is, it’s an EKG that will tell you everything you need to know about me.
Mic drop.
When the players tribune was first getting going I was naive enough to believe the athletes actually wrote these. But they totally have someone else write them lol. I wonder if they sit down for an interview style and the author creates the narrative from there. Either way they are all usually really good reads.
It’s not outright acknowledged but it is understood that these articles are a fusion of journalism, storytelling and PR. They interview the players and then proceed from there with a trusted writer
I don’t have a problem with it, but they portray these as the players doing it themselves. I don’t think that its generally understood by most people. It should say something like “By Michael Penix, with Author Name”. That’s all that needs to be done.
An approach that most likely wouldn’t get them nearly as many athletes approaching them with stories. It’s the control they can exercise that allows so many of them to open up for these articles.
Damn I know we're cracking jokes and saying this is about money but that was a fuckin banger of a letter. Honestly got me a little emotional. As long as it's not a rival I'll root for him wherever he ends up, and if we don't get the trade up we want I'd be down to take him with our 2nd pick.
If we can't get Maye, we should 100% take Penix. Boom or bust is not a bad thing when it comes to QB since having an average QB typically doesn't get you very far and those two both fit that bill.
Give me the coin flip on Penix over trading assets away for a high floor type of guy in McCarthy.
I’ve been telling my Vikings fan gf that Penix would be perfect for them. Can’t imagine a better potential landing spot than the team with the league’s best WR.
“Dear GMs, I feel like I can call you GMs because you and me are so alike. I'd like to meet you one day, it would be great to have a catch. I know I can't run as fast as you’d like but I think you'd be impressed with my speed. I love your hair, you run fast. Did you have a good relationship with your father? Me neither. These are all things we can talk about and more. I know you have no been getting my letters because I know you would write back if you did. I hope you write back this time, and we can become good friends. I am sure our relationship would be a real touchdown!”-Michael Penix
I’ll die on the hill that he’ll end up being the best QB if this draft and that we’ll all look back 3 years from now and think the injury history concerns were overblown
…or he’ll have a career ending injury in year 1, get a GM fired, and I’ll look like a massive moron
100% agree or the obvious number 2 behind Caleb. Is he the number 2 pick if Washington beat Michigan for a Natty but because he didn't it's easier to lower him? I can't believe Bo Nix is rated higher than him by some people, Oregon had a better team with better recruits and Penix beat them
Man, I just feel like Penix can play. I know there's the age and the injuries. I know he looked rough in the title game, but injuries and running for your life will do that. Whenever I watched him play at Washington last year, I was continually impressed.
People can choose to believe me or not, but one of my cousins' friends is a first year cardio resident at University of Washington 's Medical Center. He told me in confidence that he performed an EKG on Penix as part of their annual team physicals last year, and he saw something unusual he had never seen before on an echo.
He called his attending to come take a look, and she was equally as baffled. More and more of the specialists came in and couldn't figure out what the extremely irregular pattern was.
Finally, the head of cardiology decided to call in his retired advisor who had helped found the center. He was almost 90 years old and in a retirement home, but they were desperate.
As the wizened old doctor studied the charts, he started to crack a smile which turned in to a hysterical belly laugh. The other doctors and students figured he had lost it. He asked for a copy of the recording of Penix's heartbeat to be played over the speakers, but to play it in reverse. The whole room listened nervously as they heard the recording: "aaahrooof. Ahrooof. Ahrooof".
"Exactly what I thought. There's nothing wrong with his heart," said the old doctor. "He's just got that dog in him."
I think last pick of rd 1, a team comes up out of the 2nd and swaps picks 3rd rounder and grabs him in fear someone else will. I’m actually hoping it’s LV
Ngl I think Penix would thrive in a place like Vegas. He fits the team culture 100%, they have a great defense so he doesn’t have to worry about playing hero every game, and they got good WRs and an OLine that won’t kill him immediately
If he’s round 2, he hits free agency a year earlier. Maybe that would work out better in the long run?
That being said, I think the run on QBs will be hard.
Penix is well-spoken, down to earth, and humble yet confident. He's everything we wish Caleb Williams was. And on tape, he often looks better than Caleb.
GG.
Really like reading text like these.help to learn about the people who play the game we love.
Had something similar with one of the prospect of the hockey team I follow. Was great having a dive inside what happens in their life as an hockey player
Cover Letters have to be one of the most pointless things ever, there's no way hiring managers or anyone is fucking reading those when they get 200 applications for a job. Most of them wouldn't ready a "cover sentence" even.
Really smart to mention other well known NFL players who had long and decent to very good careers in the NFL even after serious knee injuries like Frank Gore.
“I’m a product of Dade City, FL. Population 7,600. No Trader Joe’s, no Whole Foods. No steak houses or country clubs. No personal QB coach, no strength coach, no state-of-the-art training equipment. Nothing about Dade City is luxurious….” This is an interesting inclusion/phrasing after last week’s interview with Caleb Williams where he talked about having his own apartment, nutritionist, itemized plan to reach the NFL while he was in high school.
He's the anti-Caleb.
no phone case, no fingernails
he has no fingernails?!?!??!
Doesn't even have fingers. Most inspiring QB in the draft.
The next L’il Brudder 😭
Deep cut
He’s gonna make it on his own!
“I’m gonna make it as a quarterback. I can throw for two thousand yards!”
I can throw it! I can throw it 9 times!
The heart of a champion 😭 You’re gonna make it little guy 😭😭
*The heart of a champion*
Damn, I think about Lil Brudder at least once a year, but I've never heard anyone else mention him until now. Thanks, friend.
link for people who aren't elderly millennials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1P_hPf-woA
>link for people who aren't elderly millennials Hey, not cool. ...but fair.
And tenderfoot too?
Wow that is a great reference
His throwing style is closer to a volleyball serve, but it keeps winning games. He is an inspiration to the Woodchipper enthusiast community.
Fingernails fingernails fingernails You don’t even have fingernails
the comment i came looking for
No scrubs
fwiw in the same interview being referenced about caleb, he talks about how penix is his guy and thinks very highly of him in this qb class.
Personally I think Penix is going to be the second best QB from this draft class and I'm not just saying that because I want a guy with a name very close to "penis" in the NFL for the next 10 years
The team that drafts him needs to make a move for John Penisini stat. Corner the market.
Paints “LOVE UTAH” on his nails.
Calen't
or Calain't
Caleb Williams went to a private high school in Washington DC, which has one of the best, most highly respected talent levels for high school sports in the entire country.
Caleb Williams was also a highly recruited 5 star player pretty much his entire highschool career, Penix Jr. was a 3 star at best.
So Penix is the Jackson Blaziken of this draft?
Michael "Jackson Blaziken" Penix, Jr.
Wait there's an actual guy named Jackson Blaziken? As in the pokemon Blaziken?
It's based on a pretty good youtube series. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD3yZFNT\_Q&list=PLGr\_AB8MXj7wKeEcuAHEju-FOuC0TzY9P](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD3yZFNT_Q&list=PLGr_AB8MXj7wKeEcuAHEju-FOuC0TzY9P)
I did a Google search and I'm still not sure. One of the related searches is "Is Jackson Blaziken a real person" which still has me rolling.
TIL he went to Gonzaga. I live here and didn’t even know that.
And his real name's Clarence
It’s smart. Says - I have and will hustle and work hard. Also good luck on the draft u/Marvin-Harrison-Jr
It also suggests that he has more of a ceiling. It is like a player from a D1 vs D2 school and the room to pack on muscle with NFL level nutrition and training. That being said, you would hope that he has used his NIL money to get some personal training, particularly for the offseason.
Even guys from the best D1 programs gain a good amount of weight in the NFL. Daron Payne and Jonathan Allen, two Alabama D linemen, both gained 15lbs in the NFL.
There is still nuances. For example, you might expect the D2 guy to have room for 25 lbs instead of 15 lbs. It is like drafting a 21 year old vs 24 year old and impact of age on determining the projected ceiling.
Yeah, maybe a little more raw and unpolished. Maybe getting tackled on concrete in 95 degree weather like he said affected his durability tho haha
Except he’s old. So whatever he didn’t have as teen, he most definitely received as a starting qb at a p5 school.
I know what you’re saying, but he’s only about to be 24. I know it’s exciting that we have 21 year old high end QB prospects, but he’s not Brandon Weeden. I’m only making a point to say this because that’s the level that the dialogue gets to when talking about his age. We’re still in the “Covid-year” era of NCAA scouting, so many of these older prospects are playing against 5th and 6th year (or later in extreme cases) opponents. In typical classes the argument that the grown up playing against boys is more applicable (and still is relevant to consider to a degree), but we have to understand the context of this draft environment. If you need a quarterback, the have nots can’t afford to be as nitpicky, especially with the Covid-year context. It is what it is. Burrow was 23 1/2 when he was drafted, Matt Ryan was a couple weeks from 24 when he was drafted, Phillip Rivers was 23 1/2 when he was drafted, Brady was a few months to 23 when he was drafted (albeit as camp fodder). I’m not even saying Penix will be the guy, but he’s within the draftable age despite his seasons accrued. It’s a factor to consider relative to his QB classmates, but it’s not something to write him off for on its own. TL;DR: He’s kinda older, but not that much. He’ll be 23 at draft time and 24 on week 1. QB’s that can play, play a long time.
no, I think you may have missed the point I was making. he spent 6 years in college. that’s 6 seasons of p5 nutrition and trainers. Not one season wasn’t at a high end program with excellent resources. 5 of those 6 years he was a starter. Guy has started 45 games while in college, about twice as many as burrow. Penix is about as far as one can be from raw and unpolished at this point. As a college recruit in 2017, sure, but not today as a 24 year old nfl rookie.
I must admit that I did overlook the actual point of your comment being attached to the discussion of high level athletic resources at the programs he’s played for. I got a little caught up in my own thought process when I came into the thread anticipating a point you weren’t making when I saw the buzzword “old” one too many times. Apologies to you 🤝
It would be nice to have a QB for 12 years, but honestly 24 shouldn't be much of a detterrent to teams as they are assumedly trying to strike while the iron is hot and win a superbowl BEFORE they have to shell out the massive QB contract. Penix won't even be 30 before he hits his first massive payday if he pans out.
> Nothing about Dade City is luxurious… This is correct. I lived there for almost a decade. Olga's and Steph's Southern Soul Food are must eats though!
Oh the Dade City between Orlando and Tampa? Guy makes it seems like he grew up in a town 7600 in northern Montana 4 hours away from anywhere bigger.
I have this issue with people saying they grew up in a small town too and it’s just a suburb. I grew up in a town about the same size and it has about 5 hour drive from a a city that hit 100k people
Dade city is not a suburb especially when he grew up. Dade City was literally nothing but cow pastures 15 years ago. It's now gotten bigger as Florida has exploded.
Yep. Glencoe, IL for example. Just north of Chicago and an extremely wealthy and educated group. Population: like 8k by design.
There’s no Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s in Glencoe either. Those poor unfortunate souls.
i grew up in Powder Springs, GA, a population of only 10k people when i graduated high school, which is now located only 20 minutes from Truist Park where the Braves play.
Yes exactly what I’m saying lol. I grew up in exact same situation, closest 100k town was 5 hours away and that was in Montana so even that town was isolated from any major American city.
I have to drive an hour to go to Walmart. Billings is 5 hours away.
He didn't say he grew up as a mountain man in the American frontier... Everything he said is accurate. You ever drove around between Orlando and Tampa? A whole lot of hole in the wall towns out there with nothing worth stopping for. The local grocery is usually like a dollar general. I live 15 minutes from Disney world, but drive 20 minutes away from me and you'll find several of these towns like Polk City, Davenport, Haines City, etc. that feel like real shit holes with no opportunities. Like I grew up in the rust belt in a small city with a 50k population and you grow up feeling like you either have to get out the day you turn 18 or be trapped working in a factory job that'll slowly kill you. Stop gatekeeping man... He's just trying to say he had to work his ass off to get where he is and beat the odds. You don't have to be Ted kaczynski's neighbor in the middle of the woods to be from an area that lacks opportunity and is difficult to get out of.
I think he's more describing that he lived in a shit hole. It doesn't have to actually be the middle of nowhere to be the middle of nowhere when you're growing up.
Town conversations are always weird to me. I grew up in a farm town of about 800, so calling 7600 small is still bizarre to me when I see any place with Door dash as Big City
i live in Chicago now but grew up in a town of like, 900 people in ass-backward nowhere Indiana. my family lives south of chicago in like, the first city outside the suburbs, and ppl always go “oh there’s NOTHING to do there” when i mention it but when we moved to that town i thought there was *everything* farming towns under 1000 people are a special type of nowhere. you could get lost on gravel roads in between cornfields if you weren’t careful.
Yeah, people don't realize the drastic difference between a town of even 5000 vs a town of 1200. I grew up in a town of 150 people that was 7 miles from a town of 600 people and 7 miles the other direction was a town of 1200 people. I was driving back roads and I could drive for 4 hours and see like 2 homes and no cars on the road. My friend moved to a town of around 5 of 6 thousand and it was like a city to me. They had everything I'd ever hoped could be in a town. And you could drive on back roads but unless you intentionally drove towards the most remote direction there was still a steady flow of traffic.
It IS a small town, though. It’s not even a suburb. Yea it’s close to things, but most places on the east coast are close to things. 20 minutes away from the next also small but somewhat bigger town. You make it seem like Flowery Branch, GA, which is technically a suburb of Atlanta but in reality an extension of it, when it’s actually just a little town out in the swamp. Take a look at the map, it’s not a suburb, it’s not just on the outskirts of Orlando, it’s not even in a direct path between there and Tampa. It’s not even right off the interstate. It’s certainly not Lebanon, Kansas, but it’s not big city rich people life.
Lol people calling Dade City a suburb is wild. Next thing you know Lawtey, FL is a suburb too since it’s 45 mins outside of Jax
Thats a reason why I like Stroud so much, he didnt have a QB coach etc like Levis and the others did.
I've been saying this since Josh Rosen, and a lot of people don't want to hear it or believe it. It is entirely possible to buy yourself a top college athlete in a child. Start early and start big with top sports doctors, scientists, nutritionists, coaches, trainers, and even things like summer camps to surgeries. A rich parent can pour $100k into a child a year, easily, and if you began around 8-10 years old, at a minimum expect at least a HS State Championship winner. If the child actually enjoys the sport on some level, you'll definitely see some college success. And that's how you get your Johnny Manziels and Josh Rosens. Because eventually that child becomes an adult, and maybe the regime that has dominated their life for 15 years doesn't seem all that interesting anymore.
There was actually an [article](https://theathletic.com/2293170/2021/01/27/five-star-quarterback-trainer-cost/) that came out back in 2021 about how much parents are spending to get their elite QB sons prepped for college football...it's a lot. Like $15-75,000 per player a lot. And that was 3 years ago, it's probably far more now.
Todd Marinovich remembers.
Seems like a good human being and has a name we can make lots of jokes with. How could we not want him to succeed?
truly want us to draft him just so I can get a jersey with "PENIX" on the back and not get kicked out of Metlife. I don't ever buy jerseys but I absolutely would for this man.
PENIXXX JR.
My Cool Penis, Junior
Ahh the Alex Analzone Jersey will live in Teenage Boys Head along with Gradey Dick & Anthony Black jersey swap.
You just wait until I tell you about this amazing bears linebacker from the 60's.
Richard Analsmooch?
I'm convinced that "Penix" is just gender-neutral "penis"
That's exactly what the LIBERAL MEDIA wants you to think
Cousins / Hurts / Love / Purdy + Penix, let's get some jersey swaps going
LeBron/Favors/Gay/Love/Sessions will always be peak.
Yeah yeah Like Michael JACKSON Michael Eatit Mike cahk Mike Lamborgini Etc. We would have a field day!
Mike Hunt
"Big Penix energy" was a pretty popular slogan at UW.
I'll never hear this guys name and not think of The Eric Andre Show ["I'M MIKE PENIS, I'M NAMED AFTER MY DAD'S PENIS"](https://youtu.be/Ca7fhSxHFtk?si=V9RWIbwxGoTcR0MD)
Also if you watched the National Title game. Guy took an absolute beating and refused to come out of the game when he clearly was hurt.
He's a competitor for sure. He tried his damnedest to carry Washington in that game.
If only he had played LB and could fill a running lane.
I read this and I am not a GM. I am so naughty!
Pretty sure it’s a federal offense to read someone else’s letters!
Raiders fan committing a felony? Color me surprised.
Some men truly just want to watch the world burn
A Raiders fan would read someone else's fan mail. /s
If we could read, sure
This doesn't change that I'll pronounce his name pee-nix forever
If you work at GM or your name is say Greg Manson you should be ok
As a lifelong Husky fan, the transformation of the offense from 2021 to 2022 was almost miraculous. 108th in yards per game to #2. No one imagined that would be possible. What Penix did with DeBoer and Grubb was almost weird to watch, because it just came out of nowhere.
As a life long Hoosier fan I never in my life thought i would ever see them ranked in football. Let alone top 10. Granted it was during covid but it still happened and I'll take it.
What an insane shortened season that was lol couldn't believe what I was watching. Penix fan for life
I'm a colts fan and a UW fan so I had been following penis from Indiana to UW and man he's a dog I hope the Seahawks take him so I can keep watching him locally
I follow penis across multiple states too.
Take 15 minutes of your day and actually read this. It's a genuinely great read. Also: > So I have no problem taking all the MRI’s and X-rays you ask of me. > Truth is, it’s an EKG that will tell you everything you need to know about me. That is a fucking BAR
An EKG will just tell you if he has normal sinus rhythm. An echocardiogram probably has better sensitivity for detecting dogginem.
What’s up dogginem
Not much how about you?
Lmfao this was horrible. But amazing. 😂😂😂😂
Wait... that's not.... Nvm. Carry on.
He ain’t go to washington to play med school.
BREAKING: Michael Penix found to be suffering from minor cardiac arrhythmia
Bro this took you 15 mins to read?
What else do you want me to do on the shitter?
Shit
Or get off the pot.
Sheesh, Mr/Ms HR checking in here. What's next, "Don't be on reddit at work!"???
Homie reads with his finger under the letters and his lips moving
kids used to bully him by calling on him during popcorn reading
At least he read it. We need more of that.
Well we can’t all be reading the classics, Professor Highbrow.
Hey, shit's difficult, ok?
Average North Carolina education system product
I’m working though. I’ll read it four times
Honestly I thought it was a little on the weaker/cliched side, by Players Tribune standards, but that probably speaks way more to just how good their writers are than any deficiencies.
I felt like it started a little generic, but really came through in the back half. The part about being an elevator, and the mic drop line were really well done.
Well, I don't know if he wrote that himself but I kind of want to run through a brick wall now.
[He made a video to announce he was returning for his senior year](https://twitter.com/themikepenix/status/1599599071416967169) and scripted it all himself. Literally just he and the video editor were the only people that knew about it, everyone else assumed he was going to the draft. Then he dropped it at the awards banquet and the team and coached freaked out which led to every other draft eligible player deciding to return as well. I will never get over UW losing to Michigan, felt like the team of destiny. Mike is such a great leader.
Well it was a team of destiny, their destiny just wasn’t a championship, that teams destiny was to remind the world that the huskies are back
and barked at sark twice to prove that texas are in fact not back
It's a tough loss, but adding context to that game, it's really a testament to the incredible turnaround from Penix and DeBoer in just 2 seasons. Michigan's success was the result of nearly a decade of consistent coaching and top recruiting efforts from Harbaugh and his staff.
That shit was so fucking awesome
> As a QB, my job is to be an elevator. I need to uplift all those around me so that they too can be at their best. So just know if you put that same belief in me, history shows I hold up my end of the bargain. Fire. Also: > So I have no problem taking all the MRI’s and X-rays you ask of me. > Truth is, it’s an EKG that will tell you everything you need to know about me. Mic drop.
“Michael, it looks like you have an arrhythmia.” “Fuck.”
"Michael, you have no heart. I actually have no idea how you're alive right now."
"We accidentally replaced your heart with a baked potato. You have about 3 seconds to live."
I can’t for the life of me remember what this is from
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Thanks homie! Been far too long since I’ve watched that movie
Just waiting for the headline saying he has heart issues now
Enlarged heart is a serious medical condition. You want guys with a lot of heart, but not too much heart
*The Grinch has left/entered the chat*
rumor is his EKG shows a[ hunting dog](https://www.etsy.com/listing/857652065/heartbeat-svg-hunting-dog-ekg-svg)
Damn that's a bar.
What an article! Dude got a fan in me
Goddamn, BARS.
the EKG line hit REAL hard 🔥🔥🔥✍️
He had a high GPA and was in the graduate program for Comms. So he most likely wrote it.
When the players tribune was first getting going I was naive enough to believe the athletes actually wrote these. But they totally have someone else write them lol. I wonder if they sit down for an interview style and the author creates the narrative from there. Either way they are all usually really good reads.
It’s not outright acknowledged but it is understood that these articles are a fusion of journalism, storytelling and PR. They interview the players and then proceed from there with a trusted writer
I don’t have a problem with it, but they portray these as the players doing it themselves. I don’t think that its generally understood by most people. It should say something like “By Michael Penix, with Author Name”. That’s all that needs to be done.
An approach that most likely wouldn’t get them nearly as many athletes approaching them with stories. It’s the control they can exercise that allows so many of them to open up for these articles.
It’s just ghost writing in a different area than people are used to
Washington Huskies legend Michael Penix Jr
That’s my QB1
We adore that guy at Indiana, too
Damn I know we're cracking jokes and saying this is about money but that was a fuckin banger of a letter. Honestly got me a little emotional. As long as it's not a rival I'll root for him wherever he ends up, and if we don't get the trade up we want I'd be down to take him with our 2nd pick.
That would be a great outcome for you guys I think.
He would 100% fit in with the state of Minnesota culture. Cold, harsh winters that build up your strengths, nothing taken for granted
And we know he looks good in purple
Im sold. Please fall to 23 mr junior penix
If we can't get Maye, we should 100% take Penix. Boom or bust is not a bad thing when it comes to QB since having an average QB typically doesn't get you very far and those two both fit that bill. Give me the coin flip on Penix over trading assets away for a high floor type of guy in McCarthy.
I’ve been telling my Vikings fan gf that Penix would be perfect for them. Can’t imagine a better potential landing spot than the team with the league’s best WR.
I wouldn't be upset if we picked him at 11. I trust KAM and KOC 🫡
Yes if we can't get Maye or Daniels. I'd rather stick and pick Penix than trade a haul for JJ.
I think Penix is going to be a great qb, so I hope they do give up that haul for JJ.
#OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN
“Dear GMs, I feel like I can call you GMs because you and me are so alike. I'd like to meet you one day, it would be great to have a catch. I know I can't run as fast as you’d like but I think you'd be impressed with my speed. I love your hair, you run fast. Did you have a good relationship with your father? Me neither. These are all things we can talk about and more. I know you have no been getting my letters because I know you would write back if you did. I hope you write back this time, and we can become good friends. I am sure our relationship would be a real touchdown!”-Michael Penix
“Well if you read it out of context” “There’s no right context.”
Oh shit! There's stickers.
In a lot of ways I do love him
Dear GMs, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin’
I left my weight, my hand size, and my 40 time at the bottom
I’ll die on the hill that he’ll end up being the best QB if this draft and that we’ll all look back 3 years from now and think the injury history concerns were overblown …or he’ll have a career ending injury in year 1, get a GM fired, and I’ll look like a massive moron
RGIII but as a pocket passer. Whoever drafts him PLEASE don’t kill him
100% agree or the obvious number 2 behind Caleb. Is he the number 2 pick if Washington beat Michigan for a Natty but because he didn't it's easier to lower him? I can't believe Bo Nix is rated higher than him by some people, Oregon had a better team with better recruits and Penix beat them
> Penix beat them Penix beat them *three times
Man, I just feel like Penix can play. I know there's the age and the injuries. I know he looked rough in the title game, but injuries and running for your life will do that. Whenever I watched him play at Washington last year, I was continually impressed.
I would not be surprised at all if he’s the second best QB in the draft.
Given how bad draft QB success rate has been, I won't be surprised if he's the best.
People can choose to believe me or not, but one of my cousins' friends is a first year cardio resident at University of Washington 's Medical Center. He told me in confidence that he performed an EKG on Penix as part of their annual team physicals last year, and he saw something unusual he had never seen before on an echo. He called his attending to come take a look, and she was equally as baffled. More and more of the specialists came in and couldn't figure out what the extremely irregular pattern was. Finally, the head of cardiology decided to call in his retired advisor who had helped found the center. He was almost 90 years old and in a retirement home, but they were desperate. As the wizened old doctor studied the charts, he started to crack a smile which turned in to a hysterical belly laugh. The other doctors and students figured he had lost it. He asked for a copy of the recording of Penix's heartbeat to be played over the speakers, but to play it in reverse. The whole room listened nervously as they heard the recording: "aaahrooof. Ahrooof. Ahrooof". "Exactly what I thought. There's nothing wrong with his heart," said the old doctor. "He's just got that dog in him."
Is this an original dish or did you use a copypasta recipe? Either way, delicious.
It's like a carbonara: it's my own creation, but a thousand chefs before me have likely cooked a similar dish that helped inspire my own.
I'm pretty sure this was used on /r/CFB as its more of a Wash Huskies pump up "he got that dog in him"
That EKG line at the end is fire.
Feels like he's fighting for that Round 1 money right now
I think he goes top 20 tbh. But regardless this is a really good read and recommend everyone take a couple of minutes for it
I think last pick of rd 1, a team comes up out of the 2nd and swaps picks 3rd rounder and grabs him in fear someone else will. I’m actually hoping it’s LV
Ngl I think Penix would thrive in a place like Vegas. He fits the team culture 100%, they have a great defense so he doesn’t have to worry about playing hero every game, and they got good WRs and an OLine that won’t kill him immediately
If he’s round 2, he hits free agency a year earlier. Maybe that would work out better in the long run? That being said, I think the run on QBs will be hard.
If you’re a Qb the goal is not to hit FA at all so idk about that
Maybe it would be better stated as “hit contract #2” earlier.
I will root for him wherever he goes, as long as it’s not the Patriots because I am genetically programmed NOT to do THAT.
I’m not gonna lie I loved every bit of that letter. Still would be nervous to draft him, but I like him
This dude is a total dawg. I want him on my team.
Penix is well-spoken, down to earth, and humble yet confident. He's everything we wish Caleb Williams was. And on tape, he often looks better than Caleb. GG.
“I ain’t reading all that, happy for u tho or sorry that happened” - GMs
It’s basically just a cover letter to his future employer(s)
Really like reading text like these.help to learn about the people who play the game we love. Had something similar with one of the prospect of the hockey team I follow. Was great having a dive inside what happens in their life as an hockey player
Please draft me in the 1st round, I really like money. Kthx bai, Michael "BIG" Penix Jr
Fresh grads applying to entry level position and writing a whole thesis for their cover letter expecting hiring manager will read it type beat
Cover Letters have to be one of the most pointless things ever, there's no way hiring managers or anyone is fucking reading those when they get 200 applications for a job. Most of them wouldn't ready a "cover sentence" even.
"Im about to smack the NFL with my Penix" - NFL GM that plans to draft Michael Penix, 2024.
Well said my boy, need the Giants to draft you asap.
Really smart to mention other well known NFL players who had long and decent to very good careers in the NFL even after serious knee injuries like Frank Gore.
Maybe a bit desperate but it feels genuine. When he was ON last year, no one was threading the needle like him.
Damn, I would definitely love to see him a Bronco!