Should Falcons keep Kirk Cousins? | Installation
The GM of Atlanta Falcons plans to keep Kirk Cousins in the team in 2025 despite his bench for Michael Penix Jr. last season. Emmanuel Acho, Lesean McCoy, James Jones and Chase Daniel ask if it is a mistake to keep the cousins on RO …
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Kirk Cousins is compulsory Minicamp from the Falcons of Atlanta this week despite an earlier exchange this offseason.
Cousins, which is in the second year of his $ 180 million contract over four years, which he signed with Atlanta during the last off-season, lost his quarter-back post against the recruit Michael Penix Jr. with three weeks in 2024.
The move of head coach Raheem Morris to go with his recruit asked a big question this offseason: where are the Falcons going to the quarter-Arrière in 2025?
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The quarter of the Falcons of Atlanta Kirk Cousins (Images Jeffrey Becker-Imagn)
Cousins addressed his future with the team a few weeks before the training camp, and after no exchange dropped, he was looking forward to another probable year in Atlanta.
“We are going ahead, and this is how we, as a team and as a quarter room, can be the best we can be in 2025,” Cousins to journalists told CBS Sports.
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Falcons can always exchange cousins, but his words prove that he is ready to compete with Penix for the starting role. But what was considered a mentor-mentor relationship between the two in the training camp last season will be very different this time.
It was clear that Morris and coaches staff did not trust the cousins towards the end of the season, but Penix has also amazed anyone to the point where he should be considered the starter of the Falcons who enters the camp.
He had a completion rate of 58.1% in his three departures while launching three affected and three interceptions on these games. And three games are a cup of coffee compared to what Cousins has been able to do in the league in the past 13 years.
The quarter of the Falcons of Atlanta Kirk Cousins (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
Cousins came out of a torn Achilles that he had suffered from the Vikings du Minnesota during his campaign in 2023. This put a shock absorber on what he was able to do with the 2020-2022 franchise, launching more than 4,200 yards in each of these three seasons, and he obtained two pros of Pro Bowl in 2021 and 2022.
But he led the NFL in the interceptions in 2024 (16) while launching only 18 affected on 14 departures. Falcons went 7-7 during this period, while Cousins launched 3,508 yards.
If Penix is the way Atlanta thinks in terms of a starting quarter, the payment of $ 27.5 million would be less thanide. That said, the Falcons would probably be proactive in the move of cousins so as not to have this cap on the books.
The quarter of the Falcons of Atlanta Kirk Cousins (Images Brett Davis-Imagn)
It is easier to say than to do, but maybe an injury at the end of the season for another team during the year could cause a quick exchange.
For the moment, however, Cousins focuses on the help of Falcons, whatever the role it will be.
