REAL FOOTBALL Thread

[cajunrevenge]

I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons Fontenot was able to get Morris hired by Blank was by the two of them convincing Blank the Falcons could compete immediately and signing Cousins was part of that.

Fontenot campaigned hard to get Morris hired as the alternative was Belichick who was likely to undermine Fontenot's power. Immediate competition was a promise that had to be made to get Morris hired.

Do people interview for NFL head coaching jobs by telling the owner their team sucks and have no chance of competiting? It an indictment of Morris if he thought Cousins at his age coming off fan achilles tear was a good option. 1 year prove it deal because there are no good options, sure. Its the 4 years 100 million guaranteed that makes it bad. I am not a super knowledgeable NFL fan but even I knew that. Cousins wasnt exactly a great athlete to begin with. For a guy to come back from that injury at that age they needed to be a freak athlete with a cannon for an arm before injury because both of those things significantly regress after that injury when in the mid to late 30's.

[zitothebrave]

I hated the Cousins signing because I thought it was basically lighting money on fire but I hated signing him and drafting Penix even more.

If you sign Cousins, you need to use that first rounder to go for it all. Cousins was a win now move.

I'd you draft Penix then you sign a stop gap who won't block him or take up a ton of cap space.

Doing both means you don't give yourself the best chance to win it all while simultaneously missing out on having very little cap space devoted to your QB. Only the Falcons could be so incompetent.

I mean I wont' argue with you. The onyl thing would be is that you really believe in Penix long term but don't think he's ready now, which makes sense if he's 21 like JJ McCarthy who you think could spend a year or 2. THe reason you draft Penix is because you want a starting QB by week 10.

If we were going QB in the draft, we should have signed Winston, Darnold or Brissett. If we were going to sign Cousins, We should have traded back and drafted Jared Verse and let teams who wanted the QBs give us more picks.

[striker42]

I mean I wont' argue with you. The onyl thing would be is that you really believe in Penix long term but don't think he's ready now, which makes sense if he's 21 like JJ McCarthy who you think could spend a year or 2. THe reason you draft Penix is because you want a starting QB by week 10.

If we were going QB in the draft, we should have signed Winston, Darnold or Brissett. If we were going to sign Cousins, We should have traded back and drafted Jared Verse and let teams who wanted the QBs give us more picks.

This is 100% accurate. The fact the front office and Morris didn't do this should cost them their jobs. Just total incompetence.

[zitothebrave]

This is 100% accurate. The fact the front office and Morris didn't do this should cost them their jobs. Just total incompetence.

Now I'm reading the Falcons are sticking with Cousins because of Trade Value. If Trade Value was a concern faking an injury after Kirktober would have been the way to go. To me there's no reason to keep going this path if you care about your job. If you care about your job doing the same thing every week and continuing to lose is moronic. The lack of change in defensive ideas. Lack of change in offensive plays. Everything is rough. Like I thought last year's 42 sacks were pathetic, But we're now digging all the way down to 2021 and 2022 levels. We're still struggling to as a team outsack some individual players. WHic his wild.