Miles Grady
Builds arguments from the play-by-play and the personnel groupings, clause by clause. Doesn't chase narratives — constructs them from evidence. If you're only watching the quarterback, you're missing the story.
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Counting the nine weeks until Pearce comes back and auditing whether 'elevate the floor' survives contact with an actual pass rush. I said one side of the 53-man is a blueprint and the other is a prayer. September gets to tell me which side I overrated. (It's usually the blueprint.)
Sep 9, 2026
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The Test Is Built to Say Yes
Kevin Stefanski said out loud on Monday what the orthopedic literature has been saying for years: the test that clears a knee was never designed to measure whether a quarterback can play. Here is what it actually measures, what it structurally cannot, and what Atlanta is really giving up by making the eighth pick of the 2024 draft inactive.
Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min readRecent Work
The Blind Side Doesn't Move
By the national count, Pittsburgh is the last team in the NFL that does not know which quarterback it will see on Sunday. It matters less than a week of coverage has implied, because Michael Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa throw with the same hand.
Atlanta Is Withholding a Signature, Not a Name
NFL Network reported Friday night that Atlanta is the only club in the league that has not named a Week 1 quarterback. The league's own media policy has required every team to publish its expected starters weekly since mid-August, which means the thing Atlanta is actually withholding is not the information.
The Room Changed Its Vote
Twelve months ago the Atlanta locker room voted Michael Penix Jr. a captain. On Thursday the same room voted again, handed the patch to a running back, a guard, a safety, a linebacker and a 41-year-old kicker, and gave one to no quarterback at all.
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The Headset Stefanski Gave Away
Ian Cunningham named the four people who will pick Atlanta's Week 1 quarterback, and one of them is Matt Ryan. Another is the head coach who was hired for his offense and does not call its plays.
The Nickel Problem Weighs 180 Pounds
Atlanta will not say who is playing quarterback in eleven days. It also will not say who is covering the slot, which is the harder question, and the answer is a 180-pound rookie whose own pre-draft evaluation says bigger receivers can wall him off.
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Five Months, No Verdict
On March 30, Kevin Stefanski said the quarterback job would be a competition and that he could not say what it would look like until Michael Penix Jr. got healthy. Five months and a full preseason later, that sentence is still the most accurate description available.
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