The Cousins Deal Continues to Bite the Falcons and Other Offseason Takeaways

I know I’ve harped on Cousins a lot this year, but the situation has reared its ugly head for the Falcons yet again.

Most teams that have good QBs on rookie deals (like Jayden Daniels and the Commanders) have lots of cap space to add pieces around their quarterback.

The Falcons should be in the same situation, but while they drafted a rookie last year they also paid a huge paycheck to Kirk Cousins.

I was fine with either move - but drafting a QB and signing a veteran QB cancelled out the positives of both.

Now the Falcons just had to get rid of two great pieces along the interior of the offensive and defensive line.

Grady Jarrett is a hometown player and the last person still on the roster from the last time the Falcons made the playoffs.

Losing starting center Drew Dalman to the Bears is a massive loss for the offensive line. The run game was instantly better in the 9 games he played last season.

These were cost saving moves the Falcons felt they had to make because of poor money management - including the Cousins deal.

Cousins will now probably get released or traded and the Falcons will pay him to play somewhere else. This offseason is already off to a bad start for Atlanta.

In other news, I actually like the moves that the Raiders made this offseason. Keeping Max Crosby and signing Geno Smith will make them at least watchable.

Pete Carroll is in his 70s and wants to win. They also brought along Chip Kelly which should add fun wrinkles to the offense, especially with Brock Bowers.

They won’t win the division (maybe the best in the NFL?), but at least they’ll try to keep things competitive.

It will be interesting to see where Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers go, I think one of them will head to the Giants. Daboll and co. have to win this year or they’re out.

Josh Allen deserves every penny of that new deal he got and it sholud pay for itself over the years to come for the Bills.

It should be a fun offseason and fun lead up to the draft. More to come.