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Kirk Cousins’ $180M Contract: A Serious Burden for Atlanta
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5/28/2025
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conversation though around cousins because of the large contract that he signed with atlanta last
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off season four years 180 million dollars with 100 mil guaranteed is he even a movable commodity
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right now for atlanta if he were to be cut with a post-june 1st designation probably would have
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already happened that would be a 50 million dollar cap hit for the falcons in 2025 if he were to be
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traded with a post-june 1st designation drs still a cap hit though that is hefty for atlanta
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12 and a half million it is the contract i think holding up any movement for kirk cousins this
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offseason it is and again it's one of those contracts you're not supposed to be cutting
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this early in the contract the future was supposed to be kirk cousins for a few years
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not for a few games and the fact that they compounded it was saying okay we're gonna get
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panics but now we have you know kirk cousins we don't even know if kirk cousins is healthy
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turns out he wasn't healthy but not the original injury it was a new injury it's been a complete
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mess which is why you're just supposed to break ties with it understand as an organization we messed
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up we shouldn't have signed him but we do have a quarterback on a rookie deal that's cheap so it
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sort of makes up for it if we cut him loose here and get him out of town because the one thing other
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teams understand is you will cut this guy we are not trading and picking up any bits of kirk
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cousins contract if you cut him then we can sign him to a russell wilson type deal one year eight million
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bucks instead of taking on 50 or 60 million dollars in contracts here that's what atlanta
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doesn't seem to figure out don't even remember like the song and dance when i forget whenever
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the new league year start like hey they're gonna keep them it's gonna cost them a lot of money that
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shows their willingness that they will keep on the roster and everybody around the nfl still laughed
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at that notion like no you are not it doesn't make sense to have them on the roster at any cost at
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this point because two things happen you have to eat the money you're gonna understand that but also
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michael pennix is your future if he goes through a rough patch we don't need the cat calls well we
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got to put kirk cousins back in there no this is michael pennix's team to either sink or swim at this
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point and kirk cousins plays no bearing into it now what other teams like the pittsburgh steelers if
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aaron rogers doesn't come calling here and say we want to play but we need a veteran guy that's more
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down the line we always knew one thing the falcons messed up that draft they messed up the contract with
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kirk cousins and then they're trying to act like they did everything exactly the way it was planned
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and this is working perfectly and we're happy to have a 50 to 60 million dollar backup quarterback
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nonsense we're not buying it
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