Falcons' Kirk Cousins: Performance and Future Prospects

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00:00I want to be the one to start the conversation.

00:06Now, George said the Falcons are going to go in and they're going to crush the Bucs

00:10and he could be right.

00:13Kirk Cousins has 1800 yards, 10 touchdowns, 7 interceptions.

00:17These are Aaron Rodgers numbers on the season and Aaron Rodgers is having a horrible year.

00:22George, if Kirk Cousins doesn't have a good week, is the Michael Pennix Jr. conversation

00:31coming?

00:32I want to do it here now, before it starts next week on Tuesday, where all of a sudden

00:38everyone's running to the waiver wall, Pennix, Pennix.

00:42Look, is it likely?

00:44No.

00:45Would I put a heavy bet on Cousins starting no matter what?

00:48Yes.

00:49But it's the NFL, man.

00:51And I'm telling you now, the likelihood is, you're right, Cousins, 250, 2 touchdowns.

00:57We have to play the what if.

00:59He throws for 210, 1 touchdown, 4 picks, and that conversation.

01:04We have to do it.

01:05It is part of fantasy.

01:07I'm going to hold on to Kirk Cousins here, okay, because I know you think he's going

01:11to be good.

01:12I think he's going to be good, too.

01:13But why is no one talking about that?

01:17I did hear it mentioned one place, by the way.

01:19Probably some place earlier in the week, but more of a passing by thing, not deep analysis.

01:26I think you bring up a valid point, you're right.

01:30Most top drafted rookie quarterbacks are going to play year one in this day and age.

01:34This is not like when you and I were growing up, right?

01:36They play.

01:37Everyone wants to see the shiny new toy, especially Cousins.

01:40Now, the numbers you brought up for Cousins, by the way, would put him at close to 30 touchdowns,

01:43a million interceptions, and almost 5,000 yards.

01:46So that's good fantasy numbers.

01:48You don't want to lose Cousins, by the way, because you lose Cousins, you lose Drake London,

01:51you lose Mooney, you lose Pitts.

01:54So it wouldn't be good.

01:55That being said, they play Tampa Bay.

01:58We know Tampa, he should be able to throw against Tampa Bay.

01:59Then they play Dallas.

02:00He should be able to throw against Dallas.

02:02New Orleans, Denver, back-to-back road games before the bye.

02:05Boy, if things go bad over the next month, I think that's where you start to get, you

02:09start to bite the nails.

02:10Oh, God.

02:11You know, is he going to start at home against the Chargers in week 13?

02:14That's where I start to get nervous.

02:15If he doesn't win on this, after signing him to all that money, gosh, like that would

02:18be a bad look for the Falcons, no?

02:21If he's not playing well, I think they would say, oh, we have no choice, and there'd be

02:24a lot of, there'd be some pressure.

02:25He'd have to not be playing well.

02:27I don't think they will, but I think the talk would be there, yes.

02:31Yes, the talk would be.

02:33I still wouldn't pick him up yet in fantasy, but it's like a closer in baseball.

02:40One bad start, you can live with it.

02:42Two bad starts, you have the pressure.

02:44You blow three saves, you're not the closer in fantasy anymore.

02:48You're not the quarterback after three bad games in the NFL, too.

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