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Atlanta Falcons' Quarterback Controversy and Changes
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12/18/2024
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Your feelings about the Panics job getting Cousin's gig for $180 million, boy, that did
00:11
not work out in Atlanta.
00:13
What a disaster.
00:15
And they are switching to the Washington phenom starting now.
00:22
They probably should have done this a couple of weeks ago.
00:25
But there's no turning back, right?
00:27
Once you do this, you know, there's no turning back.
00:29
It's going to be hard to put Kirk Cousins back in.
00:32
Now, listen, Panics could get injured.
00:35
But moving forward, it's clear Kirk Cousins will not be on the Atlanta Falcons next year.
00:40
It was a strange, they had a strange draft and strange offseason by signing both of them,
00:47
right?
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Let's just be real.
00:49
There were a lot of reports got at the time that, and I believed it, that the Falcons
00:53
football people were not interested in any of the free agent quarterbacks.
00:58
It was, no, we're going to draft a young quarterback.
01:01
And in fact, I guess in one of those, you know, after the fact SI type of stories that
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they'll tell, you know, what team they were hanging around with and draft.
01:10
The Falcons told like someone at SI covering the draft, like point blank, we love Michael
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Panics.
01:17
And then they went and signed Kirk Cousins, but they still drafted Michael Panics.
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So you know what it is, guys, the Falcons, you have the ownership would blank, you have
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the football people and the coaching staff, and clearly they weren't on, not all on the
01:33
same page and blank wanted the, the free agent name, the veteran player, the football people
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said, listen, let's just draft a quarterback and move forward.
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And you know, blank is the boss and he got his way and they did both.
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And here we are right now.
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I don't think it was the football people that wanted Kirk Cousins there.
01:53
I think it was more of an Arthur blank.
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The football people wanted to draft a quarterback and did, but quite frankly, Scott, they should
01:59
have done this against the Raiders.
02:00
Like Panics could have beaten the Raiders, got his feet wet.
02:03
All right.
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You got the Giants, another, another, you know, cupcake matchup.
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But you know, over overall, overall, I thought they should have done this sooner.
02:12
They had nothing to lose.
02:13
Like Kirk Cousins, like Panics could not be worse.
02:17
You know what I mean?
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Like, it's not like anybody could be worse.
02:20
You and I could go in there and do what Kirk Cousins is doing for them.
02:24
Yeah.
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He had nine picks and, you know, and one touchdown in his last several games.
02:30
It was embarrassing.
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Let me ask you this question.
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Do you think, because I do, that Thomas Dimitrov did a better job running the Falcons.
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He got him to the Super Bowl.
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He did a better job drafting and then they got rid of him and they've never been the
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same since.
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And your story rings true about how bad they screwed this up with the different people
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with different philosophies instead of someone calling the shots that knew what they were
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doing.
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I don't believe for one minute that Arthur Blank knows what he's doing.
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I don't believe he knows anything about football.
03:00
He likes to stand on the sideline in his purple coat and it's velour, it's very nice.
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And do you believe that the kid, so do you believe Dimitrov would have been better served
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if they kept him?
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And then do you believe that the kid will be as good as he was in college?
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Because he got rid of the ball, I thought, quicker than any quarterback I ever saw.
03:18
I loved his style.
03:20
He's actually really built for the National Football League Panics.
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His arm, like you said, he's got a laser, a very, very quick delivery, right?
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And the ball, it's awkward.
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The delivery is awkward, you know, and it turns some people off.
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That's what they didn't like about him and, oh, he was a little bit older and all this.
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Yeah, well, Bo Nix is a little bit older too and how's that working out right now?
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I mean, let's be real, Falcons would have been better off just starting Panics from
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the start and not even signing Kirk Cousins and moving forward, but a lot of teams get
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stuck, right?
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They think, oh, you know, they see the name.
03:55
I've always been a Dimitrov fan.
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I mean, he's got CFL connections going to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Scott.
04:02
I've always been a Dimitrov fan.
04:04
I know he recently interviewed for the New York Jet job, but you know the drill, nothing
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lasts forever.
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Like, you're a GM, you're like a politician, right?
04:11
You're there for four years or if you're lucky, eight.
04:17
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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