""Stop looking for stuff on a young man," Morris said Friday. "You don't need this stuff on him. It is what it is. But all of those things people do, it doesn't matter to affect this building. "I just feel bad for the kid. I don't want the kid having to deal with stuff that doesn't matter or stuff that's not real. ... Let his problems be his problems, like third downs. Let's fix those. Don't make up [a thing] that doesn't exist.""
"In the clip from his Wednesday news conference, Penix talks about his fiancée and former coaches as people he has for support. Some who shared the segment made the leap in the caption that Penix has no one on the Falcons coaching staff or roster there for him, an insinuation that spread on social media over the past few days."
A misappropriated viral clip of Michael Penix Jr. prompted insinuations that he lacked support within the Falcons. Raheem Morris condemned those social-media leaps as a joke that "lets you down" and urged people to stop inventing problems. Morris said he felt bad for Penix and stressed that the team should focus on football issues like third downs instead of fabricated controversies. Penix declined to further clarify, saying everyone in the Falcons facility knows the truth. Morris noted he and Penix joked about the matter at practice and listed coaches who support the quarterback.
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