The Atlanta Falcons are coming off a dreadful loss this past weekend in some of the worst conditions imaginable, being shut out 16-0 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a South Florida monsoon.

Not only was the run defense a major issue after Tampa Bay abandoned the passing game entirely and still rushed for more than 300 yards as a team, but the bigger concern was the performance on offense. Michael Penix Jr. completely just a third of his passing attempts while also throwing four interceptions, the kind of performance which will have folks re-thinking whether or not he can be the quarterback of the future for this team.

Penix did not make excuses and promised to be better, and while head coach Kevin Stefanski did obviously acknowledge the weather as a factor in the game, he also did not excuse the performance of Penix. With that being said, he did express confidence that his quarterback will bounce back from it and be just fine.

"It'll be a learning experience for all of us, we can all be better for it," Stefanski said after the game. "[Penix] will bounce back...Disappointed in the result but we've gotta move on from it."

Since the moment he took the job, Stefanski has offered praise to Penix and the way he goes about his business. It's always been clear how highly he thinks of the young quarterback, and even coming off the worst performance of his career, his faith in the lefty is not wavering.

Ultimately, Penix is of course going to have to be better moving forward if he wants a real chance at becoming this franchise's quarterback of the future, but it does seem this new regime has given and will continue to give him every opportunity to seize that role.

The Falcons have been a different team this season when Penix is on the field, and while Sunday's result was certainly both disappointing and perhaps a little bit concerning, Atlanta is staying the course and will try to continue to see the best form of him.

Stefanski is the right man for the job in terms of needing a steady hand to guide this team, and hopefully at the end of this season the Buccaneers game can be looked back on as a wild rainy outlier rather than an indicator of what was to come for this team the rest of the season.

Time will tell which, but Stefanski and the coaching staff are clearly confident in Penix and believe he can bounce back to be able to lead this team to a whole lot of success from here moving forward.