Mike

[Arkesh Ray @arkeshrayyyy]

Every Jessie Bates interception/forced fumble as a member of the Atlanta Falcons

A great player and one of my favorite Falcons ever

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@MarkZinno Joe Burrow happened

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.

Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.

I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.

He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.

In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.

When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.

Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.

Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.

If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.

He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.

So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.

[Tori McElhaney @tori_mcelhaney]

y’all ‼️ @mwhittingham_ captured this story so so so well. a must watch!!!

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

“You gotta protect the Peen-ix!” 😂😂😂

I asked @OfficialCrowder a simple question about Michael Penix Jr. and somehow, they ended up talking about protecting his balls!

Yea man, I expect it from Chann but who invited “freaky” @FredTaylorMade

Listen, I came for football analysis, but Chann took us somewhere else entirely. And the crazy part? It actually made sense! 💀

I’ll let y’all be the judge!

@Thepivotsports on @youtube

#ThePivotSports #ThePivot #PenixJr #Falcons

https://t.co/gUelSpfuuc

[Bill @Billgetzfroggy]

🚨 Pat McAfee GOES OFF on the University of Utah 😳

He says he’s never felt so uncomfortable, even bringing up what happened at UVU last year.

“I did not enjoy the University of Utah.”

HOLY SMOKES 💀

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Aaron Rodgers sat at that podium in Paris and said out loud what the corporate league office spends millions trying to sanitize.

​The NFL talks endlessly about “player safety” and “expanding the global game.” But behind closed doors, owners scrapped player-friendly bye weeks, forced a brutal 17th regular-season game, and shipped franchises across oceans simply because there was another dollar to squeeze out of foreign TV markets.

​While families and players navigate locked-down streets, civil tension, and grueling travel schedules, ownership sits in five-star suites counting international expansion checks.

​Rodgers doesn't care about league fines anymore. He’s telling you the truth: in the modern NFL, the brand and the balance sheet come first. The humans on the field come second.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@HawkEmDownChris 28-3

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

I have little to no following on this platform by choice. But I had to share that Michael Robinson blocked years ago b/c I called him out for being a race baiter about Aaron Rogers not getting the vaccine. What a weak man he is. #NFL #JalenHurts

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

Acho is so uneducated, he doesn't understand that Tom is complimenting Jalen with a rhetorical question to begin this post.

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

We have to start denouncing and renouncing this type of brash ignorance.

This isn’t about Hurts commitment to football, it’s about medical professionals carelessness and negligence.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@EmmanuelAcho You are not reading this correctly. He is asking the question rhetorically. He's saying he is committed to football so much, he played after not sleeping for 36 hours..which could've been dangerous. I'm not surprised you don't understand context.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@jasonwhitlock he reached out on one of my posts about him giving Aaron Rogers the black / white treatment after his vaccine stance. He was not happy I called him a race baiter.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@ATLVsTheWRLD Not sure on DT. LT yes due to age / depth. CB depth yes. WR, need a legit #2 although Dotson has flashed. LB?...depends on scheme and injuries. But I like the two rookies. Hope Kendall is ok.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@BrianBeckcom Does he get paid the NIL stuff?

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@MLFootball No one gives a crap about people's gambling habits.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@GregVojnovic @Auburn_Football He literally said I give Auburn credit first. #fakenews

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@LeeCraig1967 @BCrawford247 Yeah. True. We look rough against the mobile QB today.

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@CFBVault Ridder getting work done! 😂

[Mike @atlfalconfocus]

@DBro_FFB I got into an argument with him on here b/c his race baiting back when Aaron Rogers wouldn't take the vaccine. He blocked me. He even has racial undertones here about Philly blaming him to get rid of him. Can't fool me.