{"id":464351,"date":"2026-02-12T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:38:06","slug":"falcons-oc-tommy-rees-theres-definite-benefits-to-having-qb-under-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464351\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons OC Tommy Rees: There&#8217;s definite benefits to having QB under center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/matt-ryan-on-michael-penix-conversations-to-be-had-about-our-starting-qb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">haven\u2019t fully committed<\/a> to Michael Penix as their starting quarterback for the 2026 season at this point, but they gave some hints about how they\u2019ll use Penix or any other quarterback on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Penix has largely played out of the pistol or shotgun since entering the NFL, but offensive coordinator Tommy Rees suggested that would not be the case in the offense that will be installed this offseason. Rees, who came over from Cleveland with head coach Kevin Stefanski, said that his goal as a play-caller is to \u201ckeep the defense off balance\u201d and that one way of doing that is by lining up differently. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can do it both,\u201d Rees said at a press conference. \u201cI think there\u2019s definite benefits to being under center. That\u2019s been a huge part of the identity of Kevin going back throughout his career. It\u2019s been identity as we\u2019ve worked together and something that we believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rees did not comment on the chances of Penix earning the starting role, but he did say the quarterback has \u201cextreme arm talent\u201d and praised his toughness during his first public comments since joining Atlanta\u2019s staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcons haven\u2019t fully committed to Michael Penix as their starting quarterback for the 2026 season at this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-464351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}