Raheem Morris blasts reaction to Michael Penix Jr. viral clip in Atlanta

Raheem Morris says a abbreviated video of Michael Penix Jr. has been turned into a mendacious communicative astir enactment wrong the Atlanta Falcons’ building. The clip shows Penix naming his fiancée and erstwhile coaches arsenic radical helium leans on, and immoderate posts claimed that meant cipher connected the squad is determination for him.

“Stop looking for worldly connected a young man,” Morris said Friday. “You don't request this worldly connected him. It is what it is. But each of those things radical do, it doesn't substance to impact this building.

“I conscionable consciousness atrocious for the kid. I don't privation the kid having to woody with worldly that doesn't substance oregon worldly that's not real. ... Let his problems beryllium his problems, similar 3rd downs. Let's hole those. Don't marque up [a thing] that doesn't exist.”

Penix declined to re-explain his remarks, saying everyone wrong the installation knows the truth, according to Morris, who added that they person adjacent joked astir the uproar.

Staff and teammates accent regular support

Morris said Penix tin thin connected a radical that includes violative coordinator Zac Robinson, quarterbacks manager D.J. Williams, violative passing crippled coordinator and wide receivers manager T.J. Yates, elder violative adjunct Ken Zampese and seasoned backup Kirk Cousins.

“I don't adjacent wage attraction to it, to beryllium honorable with you,” Williams said. “As agelong arsenic we know. I mean, everything other is conscionable elevator music.”

Running backmost Bijan Robinson said helium talks to Penix “every azygous day” astir however rapidly a clip tin beryllium blown retired of proportion. “Everybody's present to help,” Robinson said. “Everybody wants you to win astatine the extremity of the day. So for us, everybody successful this building, we each got each other's back. That's wherefore I archer everybody, the extracurricular world, the outer satellite is going to effort to disagreement america and effort hard. So we got to support our religion high, and that's conscionable going to propulsion america through.”