Nobody Won This Job

"Tua starts by default" is the most Falcons sentence of the last decade.

Not because of Tua. Because this franchise traded for a bridge quarterback on a $1.2 million deal with zero guaranteed dollars while the guy they spent the eighth overall pick on rehabbed his third ACL tear. That's not a plan. That's a series of things that happened to a football team.

Stefanski told reporters "we're not there to name a starter for Week 1." He doesn't have to. The depth chart already did -- Penix isn't even listed in the QB section. He's filed under "injured player." The competition is a fiction written by a coaching staff too polite to say the obvious out loud.

Five different Week 1 starters in five years since Matt Ryan. Mariota. Ridder. Cousins. Penix. Now Tua. The carousel doesn't stop. It just changes the music.

ESPN projects QB uncertainty extending into 2027 -- Tua's on a one-year deal with no tag prohibition, and Penix's fifth-year option decision comes due in May with insufficient data. The most likely outcome is a handoff from one to the other, but the Falcons have never made a QB transition look easy. Starter number six could still be someone else entirely.

Tell me which part I'm wrong about.