{"id":62778,"date":"2025-08-12T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62778\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:50:08","slug":"michael-penix-wont-play-friday-night-kirk-cousins-likely-out-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62778\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Penix won&#8217;t play Friday night, Kirk Cousins likely out as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falcons quarterback Michael Penix didn\u2019t play in the team\u2019s first preseason game and he won\u2019t be playing this week either. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Raheem Morris told reporters at a Tuesday press conference that Penix will \u201cfor sure\u201d sit out against the Titans. The Falcons will have joint practices with the Titans on Tuesday and Wednesday before they play in Atlanta on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins was also held out of the preseason opener and Morris said he is likely going to sit this week as well, but added the team will talk about the plan for their backup after those practice sessions. <\/p>\n<p>Easton Stick and Emory Jones handled the quarterback duties last week and it seems like they\u2019ll be in line for the lion\u2019s share of the work this week as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falcons quarterback Michael Penix didn\u2019t play in the team\u2019s first preseason game and he won\u2019t be playing this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-62778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}