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  • @boigenius1542
    @boigenius1542 29 дней назад +13

    Kirk Cousins has always been a really streaky QB, but 0 TD's and 8 Ints in 4 games is wild even for him.

  • @jbeezy5
    @jbeezy5 Месяц назад +36

    Guess that Penix pick is starting to age well

    • @Don-md6wn
      @Don-md6wn Месяц назад +18

      Who knows what he's going to be until he gets some game action. The Falcons seem to be more worried about hurting the feelings of Kirk Cousins than they are making the playoffs.

    • @idgaf3231
      @idgaf3231 Месяц назад +4

      @@Don-md6wnBecause they know they won’t make it far in the playoffs. They have to wait to trade him, why not see if Kirk can up his trade value at the end of the season.

    • @gone4days956
      @gone4days956 29 дней назад +8

      that was the problem with the kirk signing and penix draft. Do one or the other, but not both. If cousins is great, the Penix pick is a waste because cousins will play for 3 years, penix is older and you’d waste most of penix rookie contract on bench. If cousins sucks and penix is good, the 180 million on kirk was a waste. terrible decision.

    • @garrettstiles7808
      @garrettstiles7808 29 дней назад +2

      We’ll have to see about the Penix pick. The Cousins contract is definitely not aging well.

    • @CalebsCars
      @CalebsCars 29 дней назад +4

      Imagine if they had a first round offensive weapon right now

  • @Don-md6wn
    @Don-md6wn Месяц назад +15

    It would have been nice if one of these guys actually watched some tape and could say what's wrong with Cousins. What's clearly wrong with him is he's like a statue in the pocket, his arm strength isn't what it used to be (and it was never elite), and maybe the loss of mobility is affecting his decision making, which is terrible. Morris sounds like a clown. He's saying we made our plan months ago and we won't come off that plan no matter how much evidence we see that it isn't working.

  • @robertgallagher3293
    @robertgallagher3293 Месяц назад +30

    I wish I was as good a salesman as Kirk's agent. If Falcon get beat by the Raiders then everyone in that front office should be fired. The bad thing is the Raiders are probably going to beat them.

    • @jbeezy5
      @jbeezy5 Месяц назад +7

      Nah Raiders in full tank for Shaduer mode

    • @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013
      @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013 Месяц назад +1

      I sure hope so

    • @ladyt3182
      @ladyt3182 Месяц назад

      @@jbeezy5I hope not!

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад +1

      Raiders might not, but Washington should end their season in week 17, so chances are we'll see Penix in week 18.

    • @PhilAndersonOutside
      @PhilAndersonOutside 29 дней назад +3

      Raiders have about a third of their starting roster on IR or playing injured. And they were a poor team to begin with. If the Falcons lose against them heads maybe should roll.
      The irony is the Raiders thought Penix would fall to them in the draft.

  • @Score1more
    @Score1more Месяц назад +12

    Wasn’t Mike saying the Vikings would regret not resigning Cousins

    • @gunerz3146
      @gunerz3146 29 дней назад

      You seriously thought sam darnold would play this good? People are wrong all the time, sam darnold hasn’t proven anything in 5 years prior to this atleast kirk was winning there which was proven you just wont get more than a good regular season darnold hasn’t made a postseason yet.

    • @Score1more
      @Score1more 29 дней назад

      @ yes he has, Sam proved he’s had some bad coaching.

    • @musicbyebrown
      @musicbyebrown 28 дней назад

      Mike is one of the biggest Cousins and Falcons hater I’ve ever seen

  • @hwnfrd
    @hwnfrd Месяц назад +9

    We Vikings fans tried to warn the Falcons fans about Kirk Cousins but the "Kirk fans" pulled a "Jedi mind trick" on them by presenting his "trash stats" like they always do because they still believe stats and hype win games, which Kirk is proving once again, isn't true.

    • @hudsonpowers
      @hudsonpowers Месяц назад +3

      Kirk was having his best year last season. Stop the bs

    • @hwnfrd
      @hwnfrd Месяц назад +3

      @hudsonpowers What was Kirk's record before he got hurt last year ? , 4 - 4 and that was his best season. You have proven my point.

    • @keithm9589
      @keithm9589 Месяц назад +3

      Falcons fan here, I’ve been saying since Kirk’s Washington days that he’s overrated.. i was pissed we paid all that money for him cause i knew it’s gonna set the Falcons back for some time in the same hole they just got out of.

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад

      @@hudsonpowers He was sound in 2022 and 2023, but at 36 coming off a major Achilles injury, there was no upside, and a major risk of decline. Anything more than a $35m one year prove it deal was just asking for trouble.

    • @jrcrit8843
      @jrcrit8843 Месяц назад

      @@robe2504ppl use that 2022 season as an example when he just wasn’t that good against playoff teams that season. Most of the games won that season were by one possession on an easier schedule. Had the 2nd best record in the NFC that year but got bested by the weak Giants that season in the 1st round. Cousins has 1 playoff win in his entire career. That is very telling

  • @Jviotr
    @Jviotr 29 дней назад +1

    I’m actually glad he’s not going to throw the rookie QB into a bad situation. Let Kirk finish the season, then decide what to do about his contract.

  • @TylerHolt-n5q
    @TylerHolt-n5q Месяц назад +9

    They don't have "soul searching" to do. They have regret and aren't taking action.

  • @gordonstewart8897
    @gordonstewart8897 Месяц назад +17

    Cousins needs to either retire or resign himself to a career backup role with either the Falcons or some other team. He's made his money. He's never going to get a ring, unless he's the backup quarterback to a contender. Time to close the book on the human money pit that is Kirk Cousins.

    • @TangibleAndroid
      @TangibleAndroid Месяц назад

      Some will say you might be being harsh but I think you ultimately nailed it on the head without mincing your words.

    • @keithm9589
      @keithm9589 Месяц назад

      The real issue is the front office and Coaching that has led us to mediocrity for YEARS..

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад +1

      @@keithm9589 Given what Smith is doing in Pittsburgh, the FO is the hot favourite there.

    • @lanebartlett1427
      @lanebartlett1427 26 дней назад

      Dude was dominating the league his first 6 games. Let the man go through this spell. He will be good. Let him work it through.

    • @keithm9589
      @keithm9589 24 дня назад

      @@robe2504 Facts! The FO just doesn’t have that killer instinct

  • @josephbrandon9996
    @josephbrandon9996 Месяц назад +10

    Image of we didn't draft Penix,and Kuzins was bad

  • @tajayaeanderson4848
    @tajayaeanderson4848 Месяц назад +18

    Raheem be sounded crazy sometimes

    • @tajayaeanderson4848
      @tajayaeanderson4848 Месяц назад +2

      @ EXACTLY A 6x Super Bowl winner but clearly we don’t care about winning football games

    • @tatertotnot
      @tatertotnot 27 дней назад

      @NOLIES Affirmative action brings up his race when there's no evidence that's why he got the position. Get a job.

    • @jordansheffield6101
      @jordansheffield6101 26 дней назад +1

      @@tajayaeanderson4848that’s why nobody in the league wanted him.

  • @buddysteele7624
    @buddysteele7624 29 дней назад +1

    WHO CARES WHAT THE FANS THINK?! Fans almost never know the entire story. They’re not in the locker room, they don’t know anything about scheme, they’ve never coached or played at that level. This business is gonna boom regardless. Florio is always so adamant about the fan’s reaction “eVeNtUaLlY tHe FaNs wIlL dEmAnD a ChAnGe” so what?? What ever comes of that?? Nothing. According to Florio, a sector of fans think the NFL is rigged, so what?? The NFL is still killing it and making so much money. Raheem Morris doesn’t need to consider for a second what the fans think. He needs to do what he thinks is best

  • @KenHeying
    @KenHeying Месяц назад +10

    We Viking fans tried to warn the Falcons. Kirk is all for the money. He is a check down QB. They bought the farm and now it’s time to pay the mortgage.

    • @markreed4074
      @markreed4074 Месяц назад +3

      Only white quarterbacks get away this. 0 touchdowns 8 interception in 3 games. No media meltdown. Dak Lamar Russ Tua ect. Lets blame the coach receivers injuries. Compliments his agent!ect

    • @TylerHolt-n5q
      @TylerHolt-n5q Месяц назад

      That must be why Dak and Lamar got bigger contracts and Tua was somehow in the MVP conversation last year. All 3 of those things just happened last year. Did you forget or are you a racist? @@markreed4074

  • @kennethkellett3474
    @kennethkellett3474 Месяц назад +3

    There is no future that has fotenot and Morris in it so guess we find out after their fired.

  • @BK12344
    @BK12344 Месяц назад +2

    But Mike was the one who was so devastated tht we let go Kirk and said we shd have kept him. This is why we let him walk and shd have done it a lot sooner. Kirk is wht he is, tht guy tht will throw up some good stats but will never take u to the big game. The falcons will not bench him bc it's very late in the season and they gave him a lot of money. They got a rookie QB tht will be 25 next yr. Good job ATL Falcons 😂😂😂👏

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад

      Kwesi couldn't do it earlier. The contract was too devastating to get out of. It took Kwesi two off-seasons to negotiate it down to where he could get out, and the Vikes are still paying him $28.5m to play for the Falcons this season, and that looks like a great investment.

  • @earlthompson4414
    @earlthompson4414 28 дней назад

    The funny thing is Arthur Smith didn't even have a quarterback last year and they was 6 and 6

  • @EvilTheOne
    @EvilTheOne 29 дней назад

    With three of the last four games against losing teams, why not start Penix to see what they have going forward into next season. This might clear up how they intend to draft and conduct their free agent pick-up in the off-season. Just a thought...

  • @michaeltaylor7996
    @michaeltaylor7996 Месяц назад +2

    So Coach Morris thinks that two bad decisions will correct things

    • @Don-md6wn
      @Don-md6wn Месяц назад +1

      Apparently he never heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The "we could all do better" isn't cutting it when Cousins has no TDs and 8 picks in the last 4 games and you can point at specific plays where he has thrown away a chance to win some of those games.

  • @SteveMartinShort
    @SteveMartinShort Месяц назад +2

    The Raiders better keep losing to clinch that #1 spot

  • @lh1678
    @lh1678 29 дней назад

    You have got to have some red zone packages with Penix at the very least.

  • @matchpoint14
    @matchpoint14 28 дней назад

    The season is over. Raheem Morris has sat back for 4 weeks and allowed this season to go down the drain, they had a 2 game lead and now do not even control their own destiny. They will NOT catch Tampa and the wild card is impossible at this point.
    Nice work Arthur Blank!!

  • @Don-md6wn
    @Don-md6wn Месяц назад +1

    Florio: "It's an easy contract to trade if anybody will trade for him."

  • @JimmyJuelz
    @JimmyJuelz 29 дней назад

    Soo you think putting a rookie qb in week 15 is going to save a playoff run?? does that make alot of sense? maybe i'm not seeing this straight..

  • @timflint25
    @timflint25 29 дней назад +2

    I think Kirk is hiding an injury

  • @CaseyWinehouse
    @CaseyWinehouse 29 дней назад

    ??? In 2017 Alex Smith played his most aggressive ball and was statistically the best deep ball thrower of the year. And Kelce was pissed when the team traded Alex Smith away, even nearly crying during an interview about the subject. I highly doubt he ever pined for Mahomes to start that year. Maybe another lesser player did but not Kelce.

  • @Firstclasssempire
    @Firstclasssempire 29 дней назад +1

    I’m not a falcons fan but I watched the highlights of this weeks game yesterday and I couldn’t believe how good he played , besides the int’s , he was dealing. I can’t even lie I couldn’t believe it, with how everyone was talking about him recently . A couple bad decisions ruined what was a good game

  • @Partylifeblack
    @Partylifeblack 25 дней назад

    He don’t feel this way now 😂

  • @KingAtlantasupporter-1
    @KingAtlantasupporter-1 Месяц назад +3

    When the falcons get everything together watch they win their 1st Superbowl and many more go falcons

  • @strongstyle117
    @strongstyle117 29 дней назад

    Since the browns owe what the falcons owe on Watson/ cousins… what if they do a swap and the browns give them a 3rd round pick??? Falcons eat Watsons contract while they have a rookie qb and cousin’s gets a fresh start in Cleveland.. seems like a win win…. Thoughts?

  • @mykofreder1682
    @mykofreder1682 Месяц назад

    He will play the next 2 easy games and will be on the bench if you are losing any of those games. The Commanders game probably will be a loss if they are not playing well, and are ready to put in the rookie the 2nd half, if they are in 1st the last game he will play to the end and that easily can happen if they go 3-0 only having to tie Tampa, they could be in 1st next week.

  • @petercofrancesco9812
    @petercofrancesco9812 29 дней назад

    Jets: who could have foreseen this, an old qb coming off an Achilles injury?

  • @wayne5913
    @wayne5913 29 дней назад

    If Falcons lose this game to a banged up Raider team . Kirk will be benched .

  • @o0oGaryo0o
    @o0oGaryo0o 29 дней назад

    Kirk has a no trade clause but with a year low of draft picks and not many free agents can kirk inflate his bag by taking a trade?
    Guy is nothing but money

  • @michaelray689
    @michaelray689 26 дней назад

    180 million if they bench him it would admit what we all thought when they drafted michael penix 8th overall. Why did you pay Kirk 180 million we all said that was stupid

  • @BenBowman97
    @BenBowman97 Месяц назад +2

    They always clamor for the rookie. Raheem knows Penix is not ready.

    • @jrcrit8843
      @jrcrit8843 Месяц назад +1

      Not ready for what? NFL experience? Can’t be worse than an aged, average QB that has only thrown INTs the past 3 games putting your playoffs in jeopardy

    • @BenBowman97
      @BenBowman97 29 дней назад

      @@jrcrit8843 4 games... so overreact and take a 180? Sounds rational.

    • @BenBowman97
      @BenBowman97 29 дней назад

      @@jrcrit8843 People always clamor for the rookie because he MIGHT be better. Then what do you do with Cousins if you bench him? Pay him tens of millions to sit there? The Falcons are a business too man.

  • @levishorkie2554
    @levishorkie2554 28 дней назад

    Wrong. You have to realize when it’s time to make a change not rely on players they have lost their skills.

  • @terrylinellc5550
    @terrylinellc5550 29 дней назад

    Drafting Penix was a great move to me.... Knowing Cousins history of inconsistency was a no brainer... one mistake I see here though is Cousins should not have a contract of 180 mill with 100 mill guaranteed for 2 years🤦🏽‍♂️, now we're stuck with this dude for at least another season... forget money, bench this dude & lets give Penix a chance to get the feel of the starting role .... We can forget the playoffs with Cousins dawg🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @ARBets23
    @ARBets23 Месяц назад +53

    Chris looks really tan today

  • @MrMegaGamerMan
    @MrMegaGamerMan Месяц назад

    I feel like that was a shot at the Panthers

  • @Bigmammals1027
    @Bigmammals1027 29 дней назад

    Man this guy sounds just like Dan Quinn did...😏😂😂

  • @sim396
    @sim396 Месяц назад

    What happened to kirko chainz?

    • @samkersten9539
      @samkersten9539 Месяц назад +2

      He doesn’t have O’Connell holding his hand

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад

      Yip, he should be locked up for persistent fraud, either that or run for President. They seem to be the two best career choices for felons these days.

  • @gunerz3146
    @gunerz3146 29 дней назад

    I think raheem forgot we have been fighting for a playoff spot every year for 4 straight years kirk is no more special than mariota, ridder/heinicke. We will still fall short and your job WILL be on the line for it.

  • @seanragsdale5636
    @seanragsdale5636 Месяц назад +4

    Yeah I’m kinda wishing Terry got fired last year. Dude has not only signed us to another anchor contract at QB, he’s also proven he can’t draft

    • @blyles8824
      @blyles8824 Месяц назад +1

      Raheem asked for Kirk , idk why people keep saying that Terry is bad. He’s not bad or good he’s just mid. Lot of free agency hits , lot of draft misses. It happens

    • @seanragsdale5636
      @seanragsdale5636 Месяц назад +1

      @@blyles8824 Fair enough, but did Terry have to sign him to that contract? That $100 million guaranteed alone would be really nice to spend on things like a pass rusher or corner that can keep up with receivers

    • @blyles8824
      @blyles8824 Месяц назад

      @@seanragsdale5636 I mean yeah but Kirk wasn’t gonna sign anywhere for any less than that, we were desperate for a QB. You gotta overpay when you’re desperate. He tried to get multiple pass rushes who chose other teams

  • @stoneweight
    @stoneweight 29 дней назад

    What's happening to Cousins' career, is known in professional wrestling parlance, as a burial. It's the deliberate lowering of the status of an individual, in the eyes of the fans. It causes them to lose popularity and in Cousins' case, will probably result in the end of him being a full-time starter. The Minnesota game, with Darnold throwing 5 touchdown passes, was the equivalent of a jobber being squashed in a wrestling match.
    Not only is he almost never being allowed, to throw on 1st downs, in goal line situations. Which has been the case for his entire career as a full-time starter, to suppress the amount of his touchdown passes, but Atlanta's OC is also dialing up running plays on the vast majority of 2nd downs, in goal line situations and calling bad play-calls in general, with poor play design and little chance of success. Especially in the Red Zone.
    It's obvious that Atlanta was scripted to draft Penix and have Cousins play poorly (after doing well in some games early on), so that fans would clamor for him to be replaced by Penix in 2024. Somehow, the horrible play-calling, lack of receiver separation, pass protection and defensive problems, will suddenly and mysteriously be fixed and Penix will come off of the bench and save the day.

    • @brob8204
      @brob8204 29 дней назад

      You think they would spend $45 million on a guy just to make a point??

  • @JJ-po5eb
    @JJ-po5eb Месяц назад

    Morris was a head coach somewhere else previously right? He sounds like he wants a third HC gig.

    • @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013
      @sparkythesecretsquirrel4013 Месяц назад

      Tampa

    • @celebratemhernandez509
      @celebratemhernandez509 29 дней назад

      He was horrible in Tampa, with only one winning season in 2010 but did not make the playoffs because the other three teams had winning records as well and also they were in 4th place but the other seasons he went 3-13 in 2009 and 4-12 in 2011, so Raheem Morris is not head coach material

  • @swimclub2829
    @swimclub2829 29 дней назад

    Morris need to be fired because ain’t no way I can sit at my house and see he cooked…this man watching him in practice every day still going along with this BS

  • @danielmonfort3235
    @danielmonfort3235 29 дней назад

    Morris need to cough up his ego and put Michael Penix in the next game, otherwise he’s going to lose the next 4 games.

  • @cooks2197
    @cooks2197 27 дней назад

    Cousins=Insanity,for the past 4 games.

  • @MaxxTitan7
    @MaxxTitan7 Месяц назад

    Chapel Bill should have went to the falcons.

    • @jfinity_362
      @jfinity_362 28 дней назад

      It’s Atlanta so why?

    • @MaxxTitan7
      @MaxxTitan7 28 дней назад

      @jfinity_362 Raheem is clueless, they have very talented roster. Bill just needs 15 wins to become top dawg

  • @issazeele1707
    @issazeele1707 Месяц назад

    2:35

  • @frankballesteros8513
    @frankballesteros8513 29 дней назад +2

    Kirk Cousins has always been extremely overrated.

  • @dtchevy7317
    @dtchevy7317 29 дней назад

    his ahh finna get fired

  • @jbceedeez
    @jbceedeez Месяц назад +1

    Don't look at stats and think it's an automatic win with
    Raiders...at some point they gonna get their mojo...
    Raiders have nothing to lose...a nothing to lose team
    is a dangerous team!!!

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад

      They also don't have an NFL standard QB.

  • @CalebsCars
    @CalebsCars 29 дней назад

    If you play Penix and he sucks then you have Bryce young 2.0

  • @relaxgaming8872
    @relaxgaming8872 Месяц назад +1

    Shouldn’t have taken a rb that high in the draft. That was mistake #1.

  • @motsy15
    @motsy15 Месяц назад +2

    Morris talks a good game. When he is eventually fired the falcons will be the same as usual. Sub 500 team.

  • @CaseyLynn-i7u
    @CaseyLynn-i7u Месяц назад +1

    It was stupid to sign Kirk in the first place. Atlanta wasn't good anyway. They weren't a QB away. It was a waste of cap space. Plus, Kirk has shown you his whole career in big games he comes up small. In the playoffs he comes up small. You weren't winning nothing with him anyway. Now they have a cap eater and are screwed for years because of it. Penix if he's started probably has as many games as possible and would be learning. It why Atlanta has sucked a long time. They keep thinking they are 1 player away. They aren't. The roster has huge holes in it, and it shows every week.

    • @tigerhoods7927
      @tigerhoods7927 Месяц назад

      lol facts it’s clowns that keep defying cousins

  • @nwilliams38
    @nwilliams38 Месяц назад +3

    Complete jibberish.

  • @michaelcross4905
    @michaelcross4905 27 дней назад

    Cousins is trash. I been Falcons fan since 1990. I never liked Cousins. Penix should've been starting since week 1. Cousins will not be with team next year.

  • @georgesmalls8509
    @georgesmalls8509 29 дней назад

    Morris needs to be fired

    • @brob8204
      @brob8204 29 дней назад

      Wow. Really, man?

  • @ShowtimeZbo
    @ShowtimeZbo Месяц назад

    My brother please change up the lens’s try some ray bands go for that kevin Samuel’s look

  • @Hurricane1668
    @Hurricane1668 Месяц назад

    The only ones who didn’t see this coming were the Falcons.
    Stupidity rules the C Suite

  • @Hurricane1668
    @Hurricane1668 Месяц назад

    We ditched Raheem for Bowles for a reason.

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Месяц назад

      What reason?

  • @ibnfawda6275
    @ibnfawda6275 Месяц назад

    How could 28-3 botch this? At least they did not hire a great coach like Bill. A moribund dumpster fire.

  • @Bighjr88
    @Bighjr88 Месяц назад

    This shows how dumb people making decisions are, anybody that has common sense about football knows this was going to happen. This is who he always been we people surprised.

    • @thesavvyninja885
      @thesavvyninja885 29 дней назад

      Stop the bs.

    • @Bighjr88
      @Bighjr88 29 дней назад

      @@thesavvyninja885What are you talking about?

    • @thesavvyninja885
      @thesavvyninja885 29 дней назад

      @Bighjr88 2022 8gw drives. 2023 was on an MVP pace, so to say this is who he always has been is straight BS and lazy. He had 171td 55int over the 6 years with the Vikings. That is what I am talking about. This is out of character for him, his previous numbers prove that.

  • @davidcochran595
    @davidcochran595 27 дней назад

    Soul searching should be focused on a new owner
    Blank has no idea how to build a winning culture! Look for another season outside looking in

  • @danielmonfort3235
    @danielmonfort3235 29 дней назад +1

    Morris need to cough up his ego and put Michael Penix in the next game, otherwise he’s going to lose the next 4 games.