Kirk Cousins’ $180M Contract: A Serious Burden for Atlanta

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00:00conversation though around cousins because of the large contract that he signed with atlanta last

00:05off season four years 180 million dollars with 100 mil guaranteed is he even a movable commodity

00:12right now for atlanta if he were to be cut with a post-june 1st designation probably would have

00:18already happened that would be a 50 million dollar cap hit for the falcons in 2025 if he were to be

00:25traded with a post-june 1st designation drs still a cap hit though that is hefty for atlanta

00:3112 and a half million it is the contract i think holding up any movement for kirk cousins this

00:37offseason it is and again it's one of those contracts you're not supposed to be cutting

00:41this early in the contract the future was supposed to be kirk cousins for a few years

00:45not for a few games and the fact that they compounded it was saying okay we're gonna get

00:49panics but now we have you know kirk cousins we don't even know if kirk cousins is healthy

00:53turns out he wasn't healthy but not the original injury it was a new injury it's been a complete

00:57mess which is why you're just supposed to break ties with it understand as an organization we messed

01:01up we shouldn't have signed him but we do have a quarterback on a rookie deal that's cheap so it

01:05sort of makes up for it if we cut him loose here and get him out of town because the one thing other

01:10teams understand is you will cut this guy we are not trading and picking up any bits of kirk

01:14cousins contract if you cut him then we can sign him to a russell wilson type deal one year eight million

01:19bucks instead of taking on 50 or 60 million dollars in contracts here that's what atlanta

01:24doesn't seem to figure out don't even remember like the song and dance when i forget whenever

01:28the new league year start like hey they're gonna keep them it's gonna cost them a lot of money that

01:31shows their willingness that they will keep on the roster and everybody around the nfl still laughed

01:35at that notion like no you are not it doesn't make sense to have them on the roster at any cost at

01:41this point because two things happen you have to eat the money you're gonna understand that but also

01:45michael pennix is your future if he goes through a rough patch we don't need the cat calls well we

01:50got to put kirk cousins back in there no this is michael pennix's team to either sink or swim at this

01:55point and kirk cousins plays no bearing into it now what other teams like the pittsburgh steelers if

01:59aaron rogers doesn't come calling here and say we want to play but we need a veteran guy that's more

02:03down the line we always knew one thing the falcons messed up that draft they messed up the contract with

02:09kirk cousins and then they're trying to act like they did everything exactly the way it was planned

02:13and this is working perfectly and we're happy to have a 50 to 60 million dollar backup quarterback

02:18nonsense we're not buying it