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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
When he signed in Atlanta he sounded like a guy that was ready to put roots down, and play for a bit.
Why would you give someone 4 years and 180 million on to turn around and draft his successor a month later. If they cut Kirk next season that is 40 million in dead cap space.
Not only that, in those quotes the Gm is saying its ok for him to sit for 4-5 years. So you're going to waste the rookie contract having him sit, and make him a starter when he is 30?
Truly is a WTF are you doing scenario playing out in Atlanta.
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Kirk Cousins hasn’t made $250M by not knowing how the game is played. Saying nice things about the city and putting down roots - it would be weird if he didn’t say it after signing a $130M deal.
He’s going to be 36 coming off an Achilles tear.
Penix is 23. He may start as early as this year - he may not. He may start when he’s 25. Maybe he has to wait until he’s 26 because Kirk stays healthy. And if he does that and then starts for them for 10 years, he’s as old as Cousins is now, and might even have some gas in the tank.
He’s not sitting for seven years.
If they have to cut/trade Kirk, so be it - the rookie savings come into play then, and with a guy who’s already been on the roster and in the system.
So many QBs fail because they aren’t given enough time. They’re thrown into the fire and made to salvage a terrible situation with a bad organization.
The Chargers let Rivers sit for two years behind Brees (while paying him max money on the old rookie system). Didn’t hurt.
The Packers model is well documented.
Look at how many quality QBs the Patriots have turned out while Brady was on the roster.
Jimmy G, Cassel, Brissett, Stidham - I’m sure there are others. And even if they’re not spectacular, they have all managed at one point or another to be baseline competent in the NFL.
Because they all got to watch Tom do it every day for years.
There’s value in watching people who know what they’re doing.
Cousins knows what he’s doing. And the model for teams that bring on an aging vet should be to draft a QB as high as possible as soon as possible to watch the master work.
Everyone talks about players being ready earlier - sure, sometimes. But lots of guys aren’t, and it’s okay if they aren’t.
if you don’t need them to be ready earlier, that’s actually easier on them. Instead of being tasked with learning the offense and saving the franchise from going 2-15 again, they just have to learn the offense and do what they’ve always done, in the background. And know that their time will come.
Jordan Love didn’t need to learn how to save the Green Bay Packers, he needed to watch what Rodgers did and copy as much of it as he could. As a result, Green Bay is staring down the barrel of 45 consecutive years of Hall of Fame QB play, and near constant relevance.
If (When) this works, you’ll see more teams copycat it.