Bears are gonna get a chance to be happy every year when they continue to draft in the top 10 for the rest of eternity. We Falcons are aspiring for a different kind of happiness.
Those injuries where in 2018 and 2020. He has played like a beast since going to Washington and being converted to a pocket passer. The difference is they already know Penix has recovered and played. And he was drafted because if Kirk is as good in the regular season as many believe, they won't be seeing another chance to draft a top tier QB without giving up the farm to trade up.
Aren’t there additional rounds to pick Def players since this is the most Off players chosen in the 1st Round? Not a big deal especially in the NFC South! 😂
So what, 26 is still young. QBs are playing late into their 30s. Pennix will give 10+ years so its a win. While other teams are going to be scrambling for QBs like the Broncos and Riders and SAints did this year. Ours in secure in our building. Dan Patrick keeps saying 3 years when its not going to be 3 years. ITs going ot be 2 years, thats when Cousins guaranteed money is super low.
this whole thing just brings back nightmares of me watching the Bears draft Mitch Trubisky. Everything from the audience's shock, the announcers surprised reaction, the overall post draft media confusion, the rumors of other teams coming up to pick the qb, the lack of communication to key personnel about the selection (in Chicago's case it was the HC that wasn't informed until the day of the draft), the lack of due diligence in the pre draft process (Chicago famously did not pursue meeting with Deshaun Watson once they fell in love with Mitch) and overpaying for a seasoned qb the same year they drafted one (Mike Glennon). At the head of this long trail there is one critical similarity, the former Bears GM and current Falcons Dir. of Player Personnel, Ryan "f your couch and dreams" Pace. For Falcons fans and Michael Penix sake, I sure hope things turn out better than it did for us in Chicago.
I think lost through all of this discussion is how talented Penix is. Rifle arm, mobility, run threat, etc. If a mistake was made in Atl, it was probably $100M on Cousins.
There is NO GUARANTEE that ANY of these players pan out especially in the 1st round and there is NO GUARANTEE that if you actually hit on these guys, you buy yourself a Superbowl. Examples: Tyree Wilson, Travon Walker, Jadeveon Clowney, Chase Young, Mario Williams, Chris Long on the OTHER SIDE Myles Garrett, TJ Watt, JJ Watt, Aiden Hutchinson.....and the list goes on. Kirk might be good for a year or 2...or me might blow out his ankle again (SEE NEW YORK JETS). Also...does anyone remember the Chiefs drafted Mahomes at 10 WITH the NFL's leader in QB Rating in the fold in Alex Smith. They were MOCKED. Everyone has amnesia about that, but that worked out well. Not saying Penix is Mahomes. Same with Green Bay. Everyone MOCKED the Packers when they drafted Love. They werent 1 CHANCE 1st round player away from a Superbowl. They do however don’t have to deal with QB hell like the Panthers, Seahawks, Broncos, Saints, Raiders, Jets, Commanders....and the list goes on. They can actually compete, and build around a guy in Love. When you have a chance to secure the QB room for 10 years, and you feel good about it. Do it. This IS a QB driven league, and when a team tries to secure it's QB room for 10 years, people lose there minds.
While Kirk is a mercenary, he is a proven above average, high floor, proven commodity. It's why he got paid. Why piss him off before taking a single snap!? May as well have not even signed him to that massive contract if you are gonna immediately create controversy.
@wh5027 If you're Arthur Blank why the f do you care about pissing off Kirk Cousins, the 1-3 playoff record, 0 superbowl Kirk Cousins? Do you think the Hunts cared about pissing off Alex Smith when they drafted Mahomes, or Mark Murphy was worried about pissing off Brett Favre when he drafted Rodgers, or pissing off Rodgers, when he drafted Love. Or Art Modell cared about pissing off Joe Flacco when the 32nd best player in the draft, who's a running back, would replace Joe Flacco. Your take is AHISTORICAL to how teams that have long term success function when it comes to the QB position.
I been saying this for awhile. This wasn’t a bad pick and tbh Falcon have weapons. The only thing about Mahomes and Alex Smith is that Alex is a good dude overall and was willing to help MaHomes, speeding up that development process. Idk if I can say the same with Kirk. Time will tell but ppl are really overreacting to this
Dumb comparison. The packers and chiefs were perennial playoff contenders when they drafted backup qbs in the 1st round. The falcons haven't even been to the playoffs in 6 years and have holes all over their team. The falcons are trying to finish the roof when they haven't even layed out the foundation.
Also this is telling cousins, we have plans if you don't do your job. I like it. Cousins has never had pressure. Maybe this will make him care about BIG games
@@christopherharris3229 you gotta think he likes the game a little after coming back from an achilles injury....he is already the 5th highest earning NFL player of all time and going to be 3rd by time his guaranteed money hits. My point still stands, he's never had a quality backup until now. Maybe he plays better...with that pressure.
I don't see a problem drafting him. Kirk is 36 and coming off injury. I get the fact they didn't bring in immediate help but the offensive is stacked. They needed a defensive player. Penix is a great pick and insurance for the future.
Either do I. The truth is a lot of QBs get hurt, Cousins is getting older and they dont want a repeat of what happened with Matty Ice. Also if they are good as expected with Cousins they wont have a shot to draft a QB high till they stink again. Letting Penix sit for 2 years or if he blows them away they can always trade Cousins next year to some team desperate for a QB. They have a lot of options. I feel like because no one in the media projected this they are over blowing it.
@@RoyalHabsburg I just don't understand the perspective that this is a good move. Penix is 24. Cousins is making a lot of money. Qb's get hurt, but the guy they signed gets hurt LESS than the guy they drafted. Across the board it was a bad move. Ruins the QB room. Ruins the locker room. Kirk has to play perfect to not hear people advocating for Penix in YEAR 1. Just ridiculous.
Are you kidding me? Penix will be 27 or 28 when he starts, the average quarterback now is washed at 32-35. This means you get exactly 2-4 years if it’s the under, if we are looking at overs maybe 8 years. Unless he’s an all time great and I don’t see that talent. If you drafted a 21 year old you extend this by another six years, which is about the average of a players career, this means you are losing out on one whole players career😂😂 Falcons have been a joke since that Super Bowl loss. Yall meltdown as soon as there is pressure.
It’s a lose lose. Kirk plays well and the kid sits and you waste his rookie deal. Kirk plays awful, the kid plays and you have Kirk making $100 million guaranteed.
@@HawgWyldFishingFalcons have double digit wins seasons with back to back playoff appearances which is easy in that division. Penix could be 27/28 before he plays
For the record.....Arthur Blank knew about and personally wanted Penix. The hand gestures and explaination was Terry F. Baby describing what they were doing to try to trade back up into the first round.
As a UW fan seeing Penjx drafted is glorious… but his disclaimer should be known. I would not bet on him to lead a team to any playoff run. He older, banged up and is very cagey and I don’t think he’ll run mentally well in the big show. That for sure gets great players. Congrats to him for getting his check.
The falcons did the right thing! And penix will be legit because of it! The Rodgers excuses always make me laugh. Because by the packers drafting Love, they got two mvps season out of Rodgers. And adding another WR wouldn’t have changed the lackluster efforts of Rodgers not choking in the playoffs, and still throwing to a triple covered Adams, when Lazard and Cobb was WIDE ASS OPEN!! Packers got it right with the Love pick, just like they always get it right when they draft QBs!! #GPG 💯
WE GOOD OUT HERE IN THE ATL..GM TERRY FONTENOT AND HC RAHEEM MORRIS PULLED OFF A MACHIAVELLI..SOUTHERN REBEL MUD TRUCKER BACKWARDS THINKERS WHO ARE PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT WITH RAGE..MICHAEL PENIX JR IS THE BEST PICK IN THE NFL 2024 DRAFT..A QB AND SEVERAL EDGE RUSHERS..MR. BLANK WILL WIN SEVERAL 🏆🏆..CHESS NOT CHECKERS 🇺🇸
But did it really work out for GB? They had a great window to get to/win the Super Bowl, and they gave Rodgers no help. Which I thought was always the goal in the first place.
@@KauaiSanj It's a first round pick, not just any pick. The Falcons are even worse as it is the #8 pick. The Falcons are announcing they don't really believe they will win with Cousins so they are already investing for the future. I can guarantee they aren't winning anything meaningful with Cousins.
I think people forgot that the NFL is still a business and they have to sell tickets. Nobody went to the falcons games last year. Kirk Cousins gives them ticket sales for 2 years. Penix hopefully gives more ticket sales 10 years after that. Yes, owners want to win a Super Bowl, but they really hate losing money
Falcons have a few offensive weapons for Captain Kirk & MPJr TE picked #4, WR picked #8, 2RBs & made the D-Line day 2 & 3 priorities! #theRiseUPis4REAL11&6winsthenfcSOUFF😂
lets talk about about the NFL DRAFT crowds and TV Ratings VS NBA playoffs , the NBA DREAMS of getting HUGE crowds like that at their draft or the TV ratings the draft gets compared to NBA playoffs games WOW
Less is more. NBA is what 7-8 months? NFL is 4 and you only get 1 game a week. Also it's more so the nfl is got some real momentum on the global stage. It's crazy huge.
@@mhgreen3000 Nah, they just need to move the nba playoff games from the NFL DRAFT. NBA product is back with players being legit like Chet, Wenby, Zion, etc. Have to know your competition though, having nba playoff games during the NFL DRAFT is just not wise.
Its the back to back years of top 10 luxury picks...Bijan in 2023 when you had a 1,000 yard rusher and Jalen Carter was still on the board...then a QB in 2024 after you just spent $100M on a top 10 QB and every single defensive player is on the board and at least one team (Vikings) was calling everybody ahead of them to trade up. If you are in 'win now' mode then taking a talented player that can make an impact immediately or trading down in the attempt to get more than one of those types of players in the right move. For everyone that wants to say its the Packers method of getting good quarterbacks one after the other...what is the measuring stick for that being a success? They had the best QB in the football for 2 seasons and didn't add enough pieces around him to win another Super Bowl.
It is interesting how experts miss the boat. Green Bay has three successful QB's. QB's are the most important position. Stability is the most important rule for a football franchise.
Green Bay is a rarity, how are you going to use the exception of the rule to prove the rule? Every team that has won, goes through droughts and has to rebuild their entire roster. It’s not just about the QB😂😂
@@andrewm000 because their track record has been shit. If you watch a man steal and say he’s honest, who are you to say he’s not…even those his actions have proven otherwise. Proof is in the pudding is the point
I am glad for Penix, I like him alot. Atlanta though after tampering, paying Cousins SO much, well I have always thought the Falcons ownership/management/coaching to be smooth brained.
That wasn't Leadbetter making a prediction, that was a telepathic, shape-shifting organism, one capable of hijacking a human host and successfully puppeting it, who read the minds of the Atlanta brass to get that information. Goo on you, sentient bow tie, well done.
He’s an amazing player. Part of IU team to beat Michigan and almost beat Ohio State. IU is 0-30 vs those teams. Sole win vs Michigan in program history. And what he did at Washington is remarkable.
Why is everyone trying to spin it like they were explaining the pick to blank?? Dude was literally in there shaking hands with everyone when they made the call
The fact is QB get injured bringing in Penix means they have a relatively cheap backup for the duration of Kirk Cousins contact and hopefully someone to take over after it
I don't care who the Falcons could have taken, Cousins isn't winning anything in Atlanta. The dude had JJ, Hockinson, Theilen, and at one point Diggs, and still only won a single playoff game. He was suppose to be they guy to get Minnesota over the hump, and yet, the guy he replaced, Case Kenuum, had more success in Minnesota that what Cousins had.
Kirk Cousins is not Aaron Rodgers. He has one playoff win in his career. These folks acting like the Falcons insulted the greatest quarterback on terf.
They insulted the QB that they just signed and paid 100 million dollars. Kinda important detail to overlook. Cousins can seriously derail this team if he wants to.
A win win win win for MY team! We have picked a TE (4) WR (8) & RB (8) & now QB (8) shows a STRONG desire to prove hot mic prognosticators WRONG! #11&6bet100million😮😂🏈♥️
They insulted the fans by paying 100 mil to a QB, the disregarding their mediocre defense that lost pieces. Outside of Bates, jerrett and terrell, who they got? A defense is 11, not 3.
There is always an inherent danger in passing on the best player on the board because that player then goes to other teams who you will face. This is a bigger factor for QBs and a bigger factor the higher up the draft board you go. Penix has a very high ceiling. He could be the next Stroud. When you pass on that not only do you not benefit but another team will. In this situation the split between how much you will lose out on and how much the Vikings could benefit was sufficiently large that ATL had to take Penix. They really had no choice.
Whatever strategy Raheem and company, have for my Atlanta falcons with Michael penix, all of you haters can keep on hating😂😂, my birds have a plan for Michael penix and in the end all of you haters will see How it's following in play. And Kirk cousin who I never liked 😠😠🏈🏈, with his crybaby behind because they got somebody to replace him, stop crying you got your money. 12 years in the NFL, how many wins does he have😮😮. Excellent choice Atlanta don't worry about these haters let's get ready for some 2024 winning football 🏈🏈🏈🙂. Michael 2 welcome to Atlanta, 🏈🏈🙂, because we all know who Michael one is 🏈🏈🏈🙂. KING G 🏈🏈😎.
They drafted Penix because they have a bit of buyer's remorse on Kirk. They are obviously worried about that Achilles snapping this year and wanted some insurance.
What’s the point of even getting hired somewhere if people like yourself are going to call you a DEI hire. That’s like saying every white person is qualified for their job, and the opposite for everyone who isn’t. That’s basically affirmative action but with a different agenda 😂
The Falcons are blowing the benefit of having a franchise QB under a rookie contract by signing Cousins. They knew months ago that they had pick 8. They knew months ago they would have a shot at at least 2 or 3 of the young QB's coming in the draft. The LAST thing they should have done was sign a 35 year old QB coming off achilles surgery to a 4 year big $$$ deal.
Seriously the falcons literally drafted the most NFL ready quarterback who's already turning 24 to sit for 2 years. I think Atlanta didn't feel like he was going to be there at 8 so they originally planned to draft a different position but when he was there at 8 they said this is the guy we really like more than anyone else and Terry Fontenot has now drafted four years in a row with the best player available mindset.
@@LovelyRobotFigurine-lr5pu who was your best player available? You got a chance at a franchise QB. He definitely was the best player available. Alot of ppl think he's the best QB in this draft. Please don't say odunze. Penix was the reason he did as good as he did. Plus you don't spend a top ten pick on your third passing option.
@@LovelyRobotFigurine-lr5pu Morris said 3 teams wanted the 8 pick to draft penix. That's no lie. Alot of teams wanted him and would have drafted him in the top ten. Again, Morris fielded 3 different calls from teams trying to get their 8 pick to specifically draft Penix. I have the source of you need proof
Packers GM saved his job by drafting Jordan Love. He wasn't trying to win a championship, he was trying to keep his job. Can you imagine Rodgers leaving Green Bay if he had CD Lamb? Terry Fontenot same boat. Just trying to prolong his job, screw winning now.
How do these analysts get their jobs? Look at all of the young receivers Aaron Rodgers had, particularly his last season. These young receivers were the key to the Packers success, especially late last year. They did get receivers. They got some very good receivers. They also knew, even before they drafted Jordan love, but the relationship was going sour. There’s no guarantee that if they drafted a wide receiver in the first round, instead of getting Jordan love, they would’ve gotten over the hump to win the Super Bowl. I’ll say right now, they look like they’re going to be relevant and in the discussion for the next several years.
“They did Cousins dirty” As a falcons fan idc.. that’s Blanks pocket but now we have two actual passers (albeit “injured”) but it’s better than what we had
Y’all are braindead. Penix will be great for us for a long time. Don’t always have to take need, and if you’re in a prime position to take the guy of the future, you do it. Bet Tennessee regrets taking Corey Davis at pick 4 over Mahomes in 2017. You get the guy you feel best about.
Penix is 24, genius. He's not the QB for the freaking future, he is supposed to play now. You don't sign Cousins to top-tier QB money and then draft his replacement. All you are doing is undermining Cousins in year 1. If he fails, Penix is in and you wasted $100 million dollars.
@@PGO_Gaming You are acting like a QB starting at 26 after sitting two years behind Kirk is the end of the world and is not planning for the future lol. Goofy.
This will be more telling if we feel like ATL was only a player or two away from serious contention. This is the move a team makes when they are perennial contenders and can afford to draft a backup QB (KC with Mahomes). But you don’t make the mega money signing in Kirk and not surround him as well as you can, unless your goal was just to be good enough to be relevant.
Since the falcons played the pats in the Super Bowl. I no lie had to take a step back as a fan for my personal health. This organization is run by people that don’t understand football.
Nik, same thing, after that crap in 2017 i havent been the same. Blank shoulda told the coaches to run the ball and win it. I havent trusted the organization since then. within a few months of the SB loss, Matt Lafluer was the QB coach and Quinn let him go to Green Bay and he hired Sarkisian who was only good at picking boogers and eating them
After Love was drafted, and before he ever played, Packers had two other drafts and still didn’t help Rodgers. Atlanta will likely have a couple drafts before Penix plays. Cousins will get some MORE help. Relax everyone.
Green bay also got Rodgers a gang of young receivers and tight ends soon after getting Love. He chose not to build with them... Maybe they knew not to put all their stock in Aaron at that time.
The Penix Jr. pick would have been smart if the Falcons did have other positional needs (hint hint: Defense) and were just drafting for depth... The Falcons & Bills both graded out with a big fat 'F' for Day 1
it wasn't the right pic at the right time, that doesn't make any sense! Do you think all the quarterbacks that were picked after Penix were better than him? You take what you can get when you can get it! Look at all the superstar quarterbacks 90% of them sat on the bench for at least one if not two or three years before playing! Kirk cousins has 100 million guaranteed for two years if he can't produce get rid of him! he has been an NFL quarterback for way too long without ever winning a Super Bowl!
it’s only a 2yr contract. damn i’m tired of this shit takes just bc it’s atlanta. every draft does not include good QBs. Rodger’s wasn’t injured when they took Love first of all. and second , ppl don’t value developing QBs anymore smh. sit back and watch is work mfs
Some of you defending what the Falcons did are amusing. This isn't Fantasy Football. It's like the poster who stated Atlanta bet the over & the under we can't lose. I have no issue with the pick. It's the signing of Kirk Cousins that makes no sense. There is a salary cap you know? Atlanta could have spent the money spent on Cousins to build a better roster... The Jordan Love comparison does not compute either. Love was taken with the 26th Pick in the First Rd. Penix was taken with the 8th pick. You draft a QB with the 8th Pick he needs to start right now. What if Atlanta is right and Penix is the next CJ Stroud hey great. Except you have a disgruntled QB (why am I here) on your bench eating up your salary cap for the next 2 years. Plus no one is going to trade for Cousins because of the contract. Houston with CJ Stroud is going hard knowing they have Stroud on that rookie contract. Atlanta is wasting Penix on his rookie deal. The Fantasy Football draft comparison is an example... Say you take Josh Allen late in the 1st Rd and then in the 3rd RD you took Lamar Jackson. HEY look at me I have solid Fantasy Football QB's but in the meantime you missed out on a premium player at one of those positions. Atlanta missed out spending the money on Cousins instead of spending it to improve the roster. After the pick Blank walking around looking bewildered??? You mean Blank the owner didn't know the Falcon's were making this move. IT's BUSINESS MISMANAGEMENT.
True and the "brain trust" reached up to grab Ohorohoho, and gave up the other 3rd rounder to do so. They could have had him and a CB in the third and didn't get a CB at all. Bad decisions.
Falcons drafted penix because Arthur Smith didn’t get a QB at #4 and instead drafted Kyle Pitts in 2021. We had Matt Ryan and we still only won 7 games then Matt was traded after we tried to go for a QB in free agency. If we had Drafted Fields maybe we wouldn’t have needed Cousins.
If I was penix I'd be pissed knowing he will now have to sit for who knows how long when there were other teams that would've given him an opportunity day 1.
Green Bay was a very good team already and used like the #26 pick to get Love who was like 21 yrs old. Atlanta sucks and they used a #8 pick on a 24 yr old player with a huge injury history.
As a Falcon fan nothing burns me more than the national media and all these arm chair GMs talking about my team as if they know what we need and how players fit our culture or scheme. Everyone mocked D. Turner to us when in reality Latu would have been the better scheme fit. We couldnt trade down because 3 other teams wanted the our guy. Not only that but if Cousins does his job and we stay relatively healthy we arent going to be in a position to draft a quality QB next yr or the yr after. Its Desmond Ridder all over again. Oh and f*ck Belicheck. Nobody wanted gis old ass down here in the A. MF past his prime and would retire whenever he broke Shulas record.
Let's pay Cousins $100m guaranteed, draft a QB in the Top 10 & sit him on the bench for 3 years before he can start full time (baring another Cousins' injury), right when his rookie deal is about up so that you lose out on having a cheap starter to help your CAP out (if they start him without a contract extension & simply pick up his 5th year option, he walks) = crazy! Looking at how messed up our O-Line is right now, WHODAT fans around world Thank You! "Rise UP!.... & walk out." lol!
"right when his rookie deal is about up so that you lose out on having a cheap starter to help your CAP out" You're scared, thats for starters. 2ndoy, you're pissed because your team didn't get him. Pennix is sitting for 2 years. Thats 3 years LEFT of rookie contract to help out the cap with the 5th year option. Try again
@@Slimkidd730 You need to do a lil more research into Cousin's contract & check out the way his $$$ is paid out. Pennix can't start till Year 4, financially. If he DOES become the starter w 1 or 2 years left on his deal, do you NOT think he is going to want a high dollar extension BEFORE his 5th year option?! You're ignorant if you think they're gonna get 2-3 years of him starting on a rookie deal. The only way this works out for ATL is if Cousins doesn't recover or gets injured again, in which case, they should have never paid him in the first place. Also, you obviously are clueless regarding my post. Not anywhere in the LEAST bit "pissed" about the Pigeons screwing up yet another draft. I thought taking Pennix was HILARIOUS!!!!!!
That's such a horrible pick, plan & investment. Like Dan said, if this was the GMs plan, why even sign Cousins to such a big contract? I'm surprised the Blank didn't fire the GM on the spot. 😂
They aren’t locked into 3 years. The can get rid of Cousins next year. There are 20 guys this season with dead cap hits of $20 mil or more. Watson will probably be $100 million when he gets cut by the Browns. Dead cap money is not something that teams care about anymore. Broncos moved on from Russ and took that hit. Everyone said that they wouldn’t do it. And the Chiefs didn’t take the best available wide receiver. They picked the flashy toy that breaks after a week. Which they have done over and over since Tyreke left. Shouldn’t be any problem with what the Bills did after the Chiefs took Worley.
The Dumbest pick of the Night was Atlanta who took a Starter QB in the 1st round just to put him on the bench for the next 3 years 😂😂😂 100 million reasons why Penix would play before he’s 27 years old
Bills trading with the Chiefs is the 2nd dumbest thing I saw in round 1, besides Penix to ATL. They need receivers, and they avoided them to the point that they virtually traded the best one on the board to KC. SMDH
Aaron Rodger’s also hates playing with young receivers. As made evident by the fact that Jordan Love was better in his first year as the starter than Aaron was in his last year in Green Bay. Who cares what Kirk or anyone else thinks?
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The Falcons GM made many fans extremely happy, Bears fans that is.
As a Bears fan, I agree 100%.
We didn’t need a receiver especially one who’s comp is Drake London
nah atl happy with MP9
Why Bears? The Falcons were more likely to draft a defensive player or judging by what they did do a kicker or punter😂
Bears are gonna get a chance to be happy every year when they continue to draft in the top 10 for the rest of eternity. We Falcons are aspiring for a different kind of happiness.
Signing a guy coming off an achilles injury and then drafting a QB because your qb is coming off an achilles injury is interesting logic.
It makes sense to do one or the other. Or sign kirk for non-starter money. Like what
Those injuries where in 2018 and 2020. He has played like a beast since going to Washington and being converted to a pocket passer. The difference is they already know Penix has recovered and played. And he was drafted because if Kirk is as good in the regular season as many believe, they won't be seeing another chance to draft a top tier QB without giving up the farm to trade up.
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OMG its the Atlanta Strategy! Bet the over AND the under; you cant lose!!
Yet they make no money and get stuck in mediocrity.
Aren’t there additional rounds to pick Def players since this is the most Off players chosen in the 1st Round?
Not a big deal especially in the NFC South! 😂
And yet whose been running the south? Falcons still trapped in pre-covid times.
Jordan Love was 21 when drafted. Penix is already 24!
So what, 26 is still young. QBs are playing late into their 30s. Pennix will give 10+ years so its a win. While other teams are going to be scrambling for QBs like the Broncos and Riders and SAints did this year. Ours in secure in our building. Dan Patrick keeps saying 3 years when its not going to be 3 years. ITs going ot be 2 years, thats when Cousins guaranteed money is super low.
this whole thing just brings back nightmares of me watching the Bears draft Mitch Trubisky. Everything from the audience's shock, the announcers surprised reaction, the overall post draft media confusion, the rumors of other teams coming up to pick the qb, the lack of communication to key personnel about the selection (in Chicago's case it was the HC that wasn't informed until the day of the draft), the lack of due diligence in the pre draft process (Chicago famously did not pursue meeting with Deshaun Watson once they fell in love with Mitch) and overpaying for a seasoned qb the same year they drafted one (Mike Glennon). At the head of this long trail there is one critical similarity, the former Bears GM and current Falcons Dir. of Player Personnel, Ryan "f your couch and dreams" Pace. For Falcons fans and Michael Penix sake, I sure hope things turn out better than it did for us in Chicago.
So wild. Looking at the Jets video during their draft you see the GM explaining to the owner his process prior to every pick.
Seeing our history with Quarterbacks, it is a wonderful pick. Will it be managed correctly?! That remains to be seen.
Worst top 10 pick ever
@@RoyalHabsburg shouldn't you be marrying your brothers daughter or something to preserve your chin lineage?
@@tityboi7295 like Ilhan Omar?
@RoyalHabsburg I'll have to see if her chin holds up. Idk what she looks like the top of my head.
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The Raiders were looking at him, as a Chiefs fan I’m happy with the Falcons pick…KC is gearing up for that elusiveness 3Pete!🎉
They love Penix, did not know who now would be at 8. Hard to move up in draft and probably not picking top ten for awhile. QBs get hurt.
It’s not about the draft pick. It’s about what the draft pick represents!
I think lost through all of this discussion is how talented Penix is. Rifle arm, mobility, run threat, etc. If a mistake was made in Atl, it was probably $100M on Cousins.
There is NO GUARANTEE that ANY of these players pan out especially in the 1st round and there is NO GUARANTEE that if you actually hit on these guys, you buy yourself a Superbowl. Examples: Tyree Wilson, Travon Walker, Jadeveon Clowney, Chase Young, Mario Williams, Chris Long on the OTHER SIDE Myles Garrett, TJ Watt, JJ Watt, Aiden Hutchinson.....and the list goes on. Kirk might be good for a year or 2...or me might blow out his ankle again (SEE NEW YORK JETS). Also...does anyone remember the Chiefs drafted Mahomes at 10 WITH the NFL's leader in QB Rating in the fold in Alex Smith. They were MOCKED. Everyone has amnesia about that, but that worked out well. Not saying Penix is Mahomes. Same with Green Bay. Everyone MOCKED the Packers when they drafted Love. They werent 1 CHANCE 1st round player away from a Superbowl. They do however don’t have to deal with QB hell like the Panthers, Seahawks, Broncos, Saints, Raiders, Jets, Commanders....and the list goes on. They can actually compete, and build around a guy in Love. When you have a chance to secure the QB room for 10 years, and you feel good about it. Do it. This IS a QB driven league, and when a team tries to secure it's QB room for 10 years, people lose there minds.
Thank you
While Kirk is a mercenary, he is a proven above average, high floor, proven commodity. It's why he got paid. Why piss him off before taking a single snap!? May as well have not even signed him to that massive contract if you are gonna immediately create controversy.
@wh5027 If you're Arthur Blank why the f do you care about pissing off Kirk Cousins, the 1-3 playoff record, 0 superbowl Kirk Cousins? Do you think the Hunts cared about pissing off Alex Smith when they drafted Mahomes, or Mark Murphy was worried about pissing off Brett Favre when he drafted Rodgers, or pissing off Rodgers, when he drafted Love. Or Art Modell cared about pissing off Joe Flacco when the 32nd best player in the draft, who's a running back, would replace Joe Flacco. Your take is AHISTORICAL to how teams that have long term success function when it comes to the QB position.
I been saying this for awhile. This wasn’t a bad pick and tbh Falcon have weapons. The only thing about Mahomes and Alex Smith is that Alex is a good dude overall and was willing to help MaHomes, speeding up that development process. Idk if I can say the same with Kirk. Time will tell but ppl are really overreacting to this
Dumb comparison. The packers and chiefs were perennial playoff contenders when they drafted backup qbs in the 1st round. The falcons haven't even been to the playoffs in 6 years and have holes all over their team. The falcons are trying to finish the roof when they haven't even layed out the foundation.
Also this is telling cousins, we have plans if you don't do your job. I like it. Cousins has never had pressure. Maybe this will make him care about BIG games
Spoiler alert it won’t, Kirk motivated by his bank statements
No pressure when you know that if you don't even play 1 game at QB the team still owes you $100,000,000 😂
@@christopherharris3229 you gotta think he likes the game a little after coming back from an achilles injury....he is already the 5th highest earning NFL player of all time and going to be 3rd by time his guaranteed money hits. My point still stands, he's never had a quality backup until now. Maybe he plays better...with that pressure.
Cousins is the richest man in the league. He doesn't give a shit about fan opinions.
@@wh5027 cool story
I don't see a problem drafting him. Kirk is 36 and coming off injury. I get the fact they didn't bring in immediate help but the offensive is stacked. They needed a defensive player. Penix is a great pick and insurance for the future.
Either do I. The truth is a lot of QBs get hurt, Cousins is getting older and they dont want a repeat of what happened with Matty Ice. Also if they are good as expected with Cousins they wont have a shot to draft a QB high till they stink again. Letting Penix sit for 2 years or if he blows them away they can always trade Cousins next year to some team desperate for a QB. They have a lot of options. I feel like because no one in the media projected this they are over blowing it.
Penix has had four season ending injuries at 23. Cousins has been very durable during his career with only one injury at age 35
Penix has a worse injury history than Cousins
Then why pay $100 mill out? Penix should be starting day one somewhere
@@RoyalHabsburg I just don't understand the perspective that this is a good move. Penix is 24. Cousins is making a lot of money. Qb's get hurt, but the guy they signed gets hurt LESS than the guy they drafted. Across the board it was a bad move. Ruins the QB room. Ruins the locker room. Kirk has to play perfect to not hear people advocating for Penix in YEAR 1. Just ridiculous.
As a falcons fan this is a good move. We will look back at this different in 5 years.
No you won’t.
Facts. Genius move. Chess, not checkers.
Yall are trippin.
This would be an ok move if you didn’t pay $90 million to a 36 year old man.
Are you kidding me? Penix will be 27 or 28 when he starts, the average quarterback now is washed at 32-35. This means you get exactly 2-4 years if it’s the under, if we are looking at overs maybe 8 years. Unless he’s an all time great and I don’t see that talent.
If you drafted a 21 year old you extend this by another six years, which is about the average of a players career, this means you are losing out on one whole players career😂😂
Falcons have been a joke since that Super Bowl loss. Yall meltdown as soon as there is pressure.
It’s a lose lose. Kirk plays well and the kid sits and you waste his rookie deal. Kirk plays awful, the kid plays and you have Kirk making $100 million guaranteed.
Yea Penix apologist think the cap and dead cap doesn’t exist.
💵💵💵🔥🔥🔥
You can move off of Kirk after 2 years. You have Penix on a rookie scale contract for 5 years
Yea let have qb who start first time at the age of 26,27 year old. @@HawgWyldFishing
@@HawgWyldFishingFalcons have double digit wins seasons with back to back playoff appearances which is easy in that division. Penix could be 27/28 before he plays
Favre-Rodgers-Love. I like the strategy!
For the record.....Arthur Blank knew about and personally wanted Penix. The hand gestures and explaination was Terry F. Baby describing what they were doing to try to trade back up into the first round.
Getting Russell Wilson contract extension with The Broncos vibes from Atlanta
As a UW fan seeing Penjx drafted is glorious… but his disclaimer should be known. I would not bet on him to lead a team to any playoff run. He older, banged up and is very cagey and I don’t think he’ll run mentally well in the big show. That for sure gets great players. Congrats to him for getting his check.
The falcons did the right thing! And penix will be legit because of it! The Rodgers excuses always make me laugh. Because by the packers drafting Love, they got two mvps season out of Rodgers. And adding another WR wouldn’t have changed the lackluster efforts of Rodgers not choking in the playoffs, and still throwing to a triple covered Adams, when Lazard and Cobb was WIDE ASS OPEN!! Packers got it right with the Love pick, just like they always get it right when they draft QBs!! #GPG 💯
It feels like the Falcons panicked and went "We need a QB, think fast." Three straight times. Crazy lol.
WE GOOD OUT HERE IN THE ATL..GM TERRY FONTENOT AND HC RAHEEM MORRIS PULLED OFF A MACHIAVELLI..SOUTHERN REBEL MUD TRUCKER BACKWARDS THINKERS WHO ARE PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT WITH RAGE..MICHAEL PENIX JR IS THE BEST PICK IN THE NFL 2024 DRAFT..A QB AND SEVERAL EDGE RUSHERS..MR. BLANK WILL WIN SEVERAL 🏆🏆..CHESS NOT CHECKERS 🇺🇸
One more question, is there only 1 round in the NFL draft?
That’s a private moment Lol
But did it really work out for GB? They had a great window to get to/win the Super Bowl, and they gave Rodgers no help. Which I thought was always the goal in the first place.
Lol...these takes are elementary. We are talking about ONE pick.
@@KauaiSanj It's a first round pick, not just any pick. The Falcons are even worse as it is the #8 pick. The Falcons are announcing they don't really believe they will win with Cousins so they are already investing for the future. I can guarantee they aren't winning anything meaningful with Cousins.
I think people forgot that the NFL is still a business and they have to sell tickets. Nobody went to the falcons games last year. Kirk Cousins gives them ticket sales for 2 years. Penix hopefully gives more ticket sales 10 years after that.
Yes, owners want to win a Super Bowl, but they really hate losing money
Rogers did not win because Rogers isn't clutch not because of a lack of supporting talent.
Falcons have a few offensive weapons for Captain Kirk & MPJr TE picked #4, WR picked #8, 2RBs & made the D-Line day 2 & 3 priorities! #theRiseUPis4REAL11&6winsthenfcSOUFF😂
I have a question.Are the Falcons one defensive player away from a Super Bowl?
Blank should sign Fontano and Morris' replacement now for when they're gone. 😂
lets talk about about the NFL DRAFT crowds and TV Ratings VS NBA playoffs , the NBA DREAMS of getting HUGE crowds like that at their draft or the TV ratings the draft gets compared to NBA playoffs games WOW
Yeah, I guess the NBA will just settle for setting yet another in-person attendance record this year 🤷♂️.
Less is more. NBA is what 7-8 months? NFL is 4 and you only get 1 game a week. Also it's more so the nfl is got some real momentum on the global stage. It's crazy huge.
Why? Everyone knows ratings have been down since 2017. No need to beat a dead horse
@@mhgreen3000 Nah, they just need to move the nba playoff games from the NFL DRAFT. NBA product is back with players being legit like Chet, Wenby, Zion, etc. Have to know your competition though, having nba playoff games during the NFL DRAFT is just not wise.
The falcons made the smart move tho
Its the back to back years of top 10 luxury picks...Bijan in 2023 when you had a 1,000 yard rusher and Jalen Carter was still on the board...then a QB in 2024 after you just spent $100M on a top 10 QB and every single defensive player is on the board and at least one team (Vikings) was calling everybody ahead of them to trade up. If you are in 'win now' mode then taking a talented player that can make an impact immediately or trading down in the attempt to get more than one of those types of players in the right move. For everyone that wants to say its the Packers method of getting good quarterbacks one after the other...what is the measuring stick for that being a success? They had the best QB in the football for 2 seasons and didn't add enough pieces around him to win another Super Bowl.
It is interesting how experts miss the boat. Green Bay has three successful QB's.
QB's are the most important position. Stability is the most important rule for a football franchise.
Green Bay is a rarity, how are you going to use the exception of the rule to prove the rule?
Every team that has won, goes through droughts and has to rebuild their entire roster. It’s not just about the QB😂😂
@jhinckle90
That is the model, when you believe you have a generational QB, draft him.
Grow him, that is the smart move.
@@andrewm000 dude has had more alcl issues than Kirk hahaha 😂😂😂
@jhinckle90
If they believe that he's da man, who are we to doubt...
@@andrewm000 because their track record has been shit. If you watch a man steal and say he’s honest, who are you to say he’s not…even those his actions have proven otherwise.
Proof is in the pudding is the point
Is there something the water in atl?
I am glad for Penix, I like him alot. Atlanta though after tampering, paying Cousins SO much, well I have always thought the Falcons ownership/management/coaching to be smooth brained.
Yes, they have made some crazy ass decisions through the years. Jimmy WIlliams, Jammall Andersen, T. McKinley, P. Jerry, the list goes on
This is the same GM that was jumping up and down celebrating picking Desmond Ridder. 😂
That wasn't Leadbetter making a prediction, that was a telepathic, shape-shifting organism, one capable of hijacking a human host and successfully puppeting it, who read the minds of the Atlanta brass to get that information. Goo on you, sentient bow tie, well done.
He’s an amazing player. Part of IU team to beat Michigan and almost beat Ohio State. IU is 0-30 vs those teams. Sole win vs Michigan in program history.
And what he did at Washington is remarkable.
Yeah he beat a crappy Covid Michigan team …anything that happened that year needs an Asterisk next to it… But,, whatever fits your narrative
Why is everyone trying to spin it like they were explaining the pick to blank?? Dude was literally in there shaking hands with everyone when they made the call
Media....
We should have gotten Dallas Turner!
The fact is QB get injured bringing in Penix means they have a relatively cheap backup for the duration of Kirk Cousins contact and hopefully someone to take over after it
I don't care who the Falcons could have taken, Cousins isn't winning anything in Atlanta. The dude had JJ, Hockinson, Theilen, and at one point Diggs, and still only won a single playoff game. He was suppose to be they guy to get Minnesota over the hump, and yet, the guy he replaced, Case Kenuum, had more success in Minnesota that what Cousins had.
Kirk Cousins is not Aaron Rodgers. He has one playoff win in his career. These folks acting like the Falcons insulted the greatest quarterback on terf.
They insulted the QB that they just signed and paid 100 million dollars. Kinda important detail to overlook. Cousins can seriously derail this team if he wants to.
And they just insulted Penix...
A win win win win for MY team! We have picked a TE (4) WR (8) & RB (8) & now QB (8) shows a STRONG desire to prove hot mic prognosticators WRONG! #11&6bet100million😮😂🏈♥️
They insulted the fans by paying 100 mil to a QB, the disregarding their mediocre defense that lost pieces. Outside of Bates, jerrett and terrell, who they got? A defense is 11, not 3.
There is always an inherent danger in passing on the best player on the board because that player then goes to other teams who you will face. This is a bigger factor for QBs and a bigger factor the higher up the draft board you go. Penix has a very high ceiling. He could be the next Stroud. When you pass on that not only do you not benefit but another team will. In this situation the split between how much you will lose out on and how much the Vikings could benefit was sufficiently large that ATL had to take Penix. They really had no choice.
Whatever strategy Raheem and company, have for my Atlanta falcons with Michael penix, all of you haters can keep on hating😂😂, my birds have a plan for Michael penix and in the end all of you haters will see How it's following in play. And Kirk cousin who I never liked 😠😠🏈🏈, with his crybaby behind because they got somebody to replace him, stop crying you got your money. 12 years in the NFL, how many wins does he have😮😮. Excellent choice Atlanta don't worry about these haters let's get ready for some 2024 winning football 🏈🏈🏈🙂. Michael 2 welcome to Atlanta, 🏈🏈🙂, because we all know who Michael one is 🏈🏈🏈🙂. KING G 🏈🏈😎.
They drafted Penix because they have a bit of buyer's remorse on Kirk. They are obviously worried about that Achilles snapping this year and wanted some insurance.
Your right
Gotta love that DEI GM 😂😂
And HC
What’s the point of even getting hired somewhere if people like yourself are going to call you a DEI hire. That’s like saying every white person is qualified for their job, and the opposite for everyone who isn’t. That’s basically affirmative action but with a different agenda 😂
lol…I love how naive people are acting. We all know damn well why the GM and Coach wanted him.
@@MW-nq2ge You could say the same thing for the Broncos
Penix will start in 2 years. They did this looking into the future. Next year's draft is WEAK especially in the QB position.
Right
The Falcons are blowing the benefit of having a franchise QB under a rookie contract by signing Cousins. They knew months ago that they had pick 8. They knew months ago they would have a shot at at least 2 or 3 of the young QB's coming in the draft. The LAST thing they should have done was sign a 35 year old QB coming off achilles surgery to a 4 year big $$$ deal.
Drafting a QB who is 24 and sitting behind Cousins and his 4 year deal, will make Penix the starter when he is 28, is not a good business decision.
It’s 7 rounds but we worried about the one, btw most of the players in the NFL are not first round picks..
Falcons should have never signed Cousins is the real story
Seriously the falcons literally drafted the most NFL ready quarterback who's already turning 24 to sit for 2 years. I think Atlanta didn't feel like he was going to be there at 8 so they originally planned to draft a different position but when he was there at 8 they said this is the guy we really like more than anyone else and Terry Fontenot has now drafted four years in a row with the best player available mindset.
@@prapra15777except he did not take the best player available not even close especially as far as team need is concerned the pick is a joke
@@LovelyRobotFigurine-lr5pu who was your best player available? You got a chance at a franchise QB. He definitely was the best player available. Alot of ppl think he's the best QB in this draft. Please don't say odunze. Penix was the reason he did as good as he did. Plus you don't spend a top ten pick on your third passing option.
@@LovelyRobotFigurine-lr5pu Morris said 3 teams wanted the 8 pick to draft penix. That's no lie. Alot of teams wanted him and would have drafted him in the top ten. Again, Morris fielded 3 different calls from teams trying to get their 8 pick to specifically draft Penix. I have the source of you need proof
Packers GM saved his job by drafting Jordan Love. He wasn't trying to win a championship, he was trying to keep his job. Can you imagine Rodgers leaving Green Bay if he had CD Lamb? Terry Fontenot same boat. Just trying to prolong his job, screw winning now.
Huh?
How do these analysts get their jobs? Look at all of the young receivers Aaron Rodgers had, particularly his last season. These young receivers were the key to the Packers success, especially late last year. They did get receivers. They got some very good receivers. They also knew, even before they drafted Jordan love, but the relationship was going sour. There’s no guarantee that if they drafted a wide receiver in the first round, instead of getting Jordan love, they would’ve gotten over the hump to win the Super Bowl. I’ll say right now, they look like they’re going to be relevant and in the discussion for the next several years.
“They did Cousins dirty”
As a falcons fan idc.. that’s Blanks pocket but now we have two actual passers (albeit “injured”) but it’s better than what we had
Also, as a Falcons fan, we didn't do Cousins dirty. He's our unquestioned starter. We should be set at QB for a decade, give or take.
Player whom got booed during the draft:
P. Manning, D. McNabb, JJ. Watt, P. Mahomes, J. Allen, and now m. p. Jr. A goat in the making.
Y’all are braindead. Penix will be great for us for a long time. Don’t always have to take need, and if you’re in a prime position to take the guy of the future, you do it. Bet Tennessee regrets taking Corey Davis at pick 4 over Mahomes in 2017. You get the guy you feel best about.
You could draft for need, you could draft for best player available, or you could do whatever the Falcons just did.
Penix is 24, genius. He's not the QB for the freaking future, he is supposed to play now. You don't sign Cousins to top-tier QB money and then draft his replacement. All you are doing is undermining Cousins in year 1. If he fails, Penix is in and you wasted $100 million dollars.
@@PGO_Gaming You are acting like a QB starting at 26 after sitting two years behind Kirk is the end of the world and is not planning for the future lol. Goofy.
You sir, are brain dead. Your defense sucks. Let’s draft a QB that won’t play for 2 years minimum
This will be more telling if we feel like ATL was only a player or two away from serious contention. This is the move a team makes when they are perennial contenders and can afford to draft a backup QB (KC with Mahomes). But you don’t make the mega money signing in Kirk and not surround him as well as you can, unless your goal was just to be good enough to be relevant.
Since the falcons played the pats in the Super Bowl. I no lie had to take a step back as a fan for my personal health. This organization is run by people that don’t understand football.
Nik, same thing, after that crap in 2017 i havent been the same. Blank shoulda told the coaches to run the ball and win it. I havent trusted the organization since then. within a few months of the SB loss, Matt Lafluer was the QB coach and Quinn let him go to Green Bay and he hired Sarkisian who was only good at picking boogers and eating them
After Love was drafted, and before he ever played, Packers had two other drafts and still didn’t help Rodgers.
Atlanta will likely have a couple drafts before Penix plays. Cousins will get some MORE help. Relax everyone.
Penix will be the starter in training camp until Kirk is healthy. Good luck Falcons with that controversy.
Green bay also got Rodgers a gang of young receivers and tight ends soon after getting Love. He chose not to build with them... Maybe they knew not to put all their stock in Aaron at that time.
Yup 💯
Bob Kraft told the Falcons to draft a quarterback
Hey Terry, the future is now
Overpay a QB, draft a QB way too high and miff on hiring Bill B … fun times.
He ripped his Achilles not 5 minutes ago. A lot of qbs …Sanders is the man next year 🤪
2 years
The Penix Jr. pick would have been smart if the Falcons did have other positional needs (hint hint: Defense) and were just drafting for depth...
The Falcons & Bills both graded out with a big fat 'F' for Day 1
it wasn't the right pic at the right time, that doesn't make any sense! Do you think all the quarterbacks that were picked after Penix were better than him? You take what you can get when you can get it! Look at all the superstar quarterbacks 90% of them sat on the bench for at least one if not two or three years before playing! Kirk cousins has 100 million guaranteed for two years if he can't produce get rid of him! he has been an NFL quarterback for way too long without ever winning a Super Bowl!
it’s only a 2yr contract. damn i’m tired of this shit takes just bc it’s atlanta. every draft does not include good QBs. Rodger’s wasn’t injured when they took Love first of all. and second , ppl don’t value developing QBs anymore smh. sit back and watch is work mfs
Some of you defending what the Falcons did are amusing. This isn't Fantasy Football. It's like the poster who stated Atlanta bet the over & the under we can't lose. I have no issue with the pick. It's the signing of Kirk Cousins that makes no sense. There is a salary cap you know? Atlanta could have spent the money spent on Cousins to build a better roster... The Jordan Love comparison does not compute either. Love was taken with the 26th Pick in the First Rd. Penix was taken with the 8th pick. You draft a QB with the 8th Pick he needs to start right now. What if Atlanta is right and Penix is the next CJ Stroud hey great. Except you have a disgruntled QB (why am I here) on your bench eating up your salary cap for the next 2 years. Plus no one is going to trade for Cousins because of the contract. Houston with CJ Stroud is going hard knowing they have Stroud on that rookie contract. Atlanta is wasting Penix on his rookie deal. The Fantasy Football draft comparison is an example... Say you take Josh Allen late in the 1st Rd and then in the 3rd RD you took Lamar Jackson. HEY look at me I have solid Fantasy Football QB's but in the meantime you missed out on a premium player at one of those positions. Atlanta missed out spending the money on Cousins instead of spending it to improve the roster. After the pick Blank walking around looking bewildered??? You mean Blank the owner didn't know the Falcon's were making this move. IT's BUSINESS MISMANAGEMENT.
My issue with it is you could have traded back and gotten picks for now and still have him.
True and the "brain trust" reached up to grab Ohorohoho, and gave up the other 3rd rounder to do so. They could have had him and a CB in the third and didn't get a CB at all. Bad decisions.
Falcons drafted penix because Arthur Smith didn’t get a QB at #4 and instead drafted Kyle Pitts in 2021. We had Matt Ryan and we still only won 7 games then Matt was traded after we tried to go for a QB in free agency. If we had Drafted Fields maybe we wouldn’t have needed Cousins.
Jordan love will win 6 games this year
This why Atlanta should of signed Russell Wilson. 🤔 Because you wouldn't have to pay a crazy amount and It's not injury prone.
If I was penix I'd be pissed knowing he will now have to sit for who knows how long when there were other teams that would've given him an opportunity day 1.
Packers hardly ever drafted help for Aaron Rogers in 15 + years
Please dont retire Dan!!!
Green Bay was a very good team already and used like the #26 pick to get Love who was like 21 yrs old. Atlanta sucks and they used a #8 pick on a 24 yr old player with a huge injury history.
As a Falcon fan nothing burns me more than the national media and all these arm chair GMs talking about my team as if they know what we need and how players fit our culture or scheme. Everyone mocked D. Turner to us when in reality Latu would have been the better scheme fit. We couldnt trade down because 3 other teams wanted the our guy. Not only that but if Cousins does his job and we stay relatively healthy we arent going to be in a position to draft a quality QB next yr or the yr after. Its Desmond Ridder all over again. Oh and f*ck Belicheck. Nobody wanted gis old ass down here in the A. MF past his prime and would retire whenever he broke Shulas record.
Let's pay Cousins $100m guaranteed, draft a QB in the Top 10 & sit him on the bench for 3 years before he can start full time (baring another Cousins' injury), right when his rookie deal is about up so that you lose out on having a cheap starter to help your CAP out (if they start him without a contract extension & simply pick up his 5th year option, he walks) = crazy! Looking at how messed up our O-Line is right now, WHODAT fans around world Thank You! "Rise UP!.... & walk out." lol!
"right when his rookie deal is about up so that you lose out on having a cheap starter to help your CAP out" You're scared, thats for starters. 2ndoy, you're pissed because your team didn't get him. Pennix is sitting for 2 years. Thats 3 years LEFT of rookie contract to help out the cap with the 5th year option. Try again
@@Slimkidd730 You need to do a lil more research into Cousin's contract & check out the way his $$$ is paid out. Pennix can't start till Year 4, financially. If he DOES become the starter w 1 or 2 years left on his deal, do you NOT think he is going to want a high dollar extension BEFORE his 5th year option?! You're ignorant if you think they're gonna get 2-3 years of him starting on a rookie deal. The only way this works out for ATL is if Cousins doesn't recover or gets injured again, in which case, they should have never paid him in the first place. Also, you obviously are clueless regarding my post. Not anywhere in the LEAST bit "pissed" about the Pigeons screwing up yet another draft. I thought taking Pennix was HILARIOUS!!!!!!
Am I crazy or is cousins 36 off an Achilles…. He was never more than mid
I agree with Dan, why pay Cousins $$$ and draft Michael, $100 for Kirk, really at that age? Arthur made his money with Home Depot
offense wasnt the problem in green bay, they couldnt win with joe barry at d coordinator.
You see why these organizations remain at the bottom year after year.
Kirk is the most expensive bridge QB in history!
Going rate for QB's now. If Daniel Jones got $160M/4 yrs what do you think a good QB is getting?
You got to be kidding me the Falcons did Kurt dirty by paying him 100 million guaranteed I like the Falcons to treat me like that
That's such a horrible pick, plan & investment. Like Dan said, if this was the GMs plan, why even sign Cousins to such a big contract? I'm surprised the Blank didn't fire the GM on the spot. 😂
Or they both play well and they trade kirk in 2 years
I wish. Has a no trade clause
@@thewinstondisclosure5516he might waive if he plays good and can get a long term deal somewhere else
They could also trade him at some point this year or next year…how many QBs started a game last year? Exactly.
That’s not why they picked him at 8
@@misinfluence agreed...i was just adding a business option. He could bring in a big haul during the 2024 season.
So Kirk is expected to play till he's 40 but Penix can't start at 26/27? I'm not seeing how that makes sense at all
Kirk Cousins deal is really a 2yr deal, not a 4yr. He's 36 with 1 playoff win on his record...so he's basically Dak.
Smart move on for Atlanta
They don’t think black QBs can play that long they just won’t say it out loud
They aren’t locked into 3 years. The can get rid of Cousins next year. There are 20 guys this season with dead cap hits of $20 mil or more. Watson will probably be $100 million when he gets cut by the Browns. Dead cap money is not something that teams care about anymore.
Broncos moved on from Russ and took that hit. Everyone said that they wouldn’t do it.
And the Chiefs didn’t take the best available wide receiver. They picked the flashy toy that breaks after a week. Which they have done over and over since Tyreke left. Shouldn’t be any problem with what the Bills did after the Chiefs took Worley.
Kirk has never been the type to help the backup QB
They did the same thing to Brett favre when they drafted Aaron Rodgers what are you talking about. An Aaron Rodgers got a super bowl
Is Atlanta winning the Super Bowl with this #1 pick and this division no.
Mahomes can make anyone better you say? I believe Kadarius Toney would like a word with you.
2 SB rings Toney?
The Dumbest pick of the Night was Atlanta who took a Starter QB in the 1st round just to put him on the bench for the next 3 years 😂😂😂 100 million reasons why Penix would play before he’s 27 years old
Cost like 10 million to get rid of him after year 2. Contract is front loaded.
Like cousins really care !… no matter what he’s stilling getting that guaranteed money !!
He may have been hoping for 4 years of money, but is now realizing that he may only get the guaranteed minimum.
@@stickman1742 or that thousands will be screaming for Penix every time he messes up for the next 3 years.
Bills trading with the Chiefs is the 2nd dumbest thing I saw in round 1, besides Penix to ATL. They need receivers, and they avoided them to the point that they virtually traded the best one on the board to KC. SMDH
That’s how KC drafted mahomes in the first place
How do you know they were looking at that particular wr. Maybe they think koleman fits their team better than the guys who run real fast.
Kirk Cousins seems like a nice guy, but he used multiple expletives on that call.
The pick was dumb.
Aaron Rodger’s also hates playing with young receivers. As made evident by the fact that Jordan Love was better in his first year as the starter than Aaron was in his last year in Green Bay. Who cares what Kirk or anyone else thinks?