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Understanding NFL Contracts and Rookie Quarterback Starts
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12/19/2024
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00:00
Okay, so let's talk about the Cousins situation.
00:07
Yeah, yeah.
00:10
First of all, let me explain the contract because I think some people are confused.
00:14
Next year, his base salary is actually very reasonable, $27.5 million.
00:18
It's fully guaranteed.
00:19
They're not going to cut him.
00:20
They'll look to move him the best way that they can.
00:22
He also has a $10 million roster bonus that becomes fully guaranteed in March.
00:26
So you're really trading $37.5 million.
00:29
Now, other teams that will be interested, and there will be teams interested, Scott.
00:34
Looking around the league, and I put my list together, there are seven teams that I've
00:37
talked to who cannot tell you exactly who their starting quarterback is going to be
00:41
next year.
00:42
And we'll talk more about this as we go forward.
00:44
But there are only two quarterbacks who are going to go in the first round in this year,
00:48
this coming draft in 2025 in May, Cam Ward, the Miami quarterback, and Shador Sanders
00:54
of Colorado.
00:55
That's it right now.
00:56
So there's just not enough good quarterbacks to go around.
00:59
I know Cousins is wildly consistent, terrible over the last five games.
01:02
Before that, actually playing pretty well.
01:04
But the Falcons here are saying, look, it didn't work.
01:09
When you bench a quarterback who's making over $60 million with everything that was
01:14
due to him this season, they're telling you what they think.
01:17
They're done with him.
01:18
They're going to Michael Penix, who shocked us when you and I were doing the draft cards.
01:21
We were shocked at that draft pick.
01:24
But now's the time.
01:26
I know publicly they'll never admit that, hey, it's the Giants, but it is the Giants.
01:30
They're at home.
01:31
This is a game, by the way, the Giants have 20 players, Scott, on their injury report.
01:37
This is a good game for Penix to do well in his first appearance as a starting quarterback.
01:43
He's a super aggressive thrower, Scott.
01:45
That's what the Falcons and other teams like.
01:47
By the way, the Raiders loved him for this draft, this past draft.
01:51
I'm looking for Penix to do very well in his first start.
01:53
And they are loaded, by the way, in offense.
01:55
They've got to get Kyle Pitts the football, and that starts against those Giants.
01:58
All right, so, and I still think they stink.
02:01
The Buccaneers are way better.
02:02
The Buccaneers are going to win the division.
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