I think this is the latest the first DB came off the board since old friend Tyrone Poole in 1995.
2024 NFL Draft 1st round gamethread: Maye the odds be ever in your favor WITH SPOILERS
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Wanted CB but he’s ok. WR is a need, Thomas is a good prospect, and we were just talking earlier about how the hit rate on WRs has been high the past few years.
I mean, when you grow up with your team picking guys like Leonard Fournette and Dante Fowler, you go into the draft with modest expectations.
Good on him for defending the Parcells era when McAfee suggested the team didn’t have success before he became HC.
Hey Mauf I agree I wanted Mitchell bad, but said I'd be ok with either CB or Thomas. Add in the trade and it works for me. Wonder if they take some of the excess picks to bridge the gap between 48 and 96 tomorrow.
Very much! And actually the show is really pretty amusing, way better than Greeny & crew
He's taking hits of fentanyl back stage to stave off the back pain during all of these hugs.
yeah, this is getting better
ESPN:
Cousins' agent, Mike McCartney, told ESPN's Pete Thamel that the Falcons only notified the QB that they'd pick Penix while the team was on the clock. McCartney said there is frustration and confusion coming from Cousins' camp because Atlanta did not use its first-round pick to make the team better in 2024.
Anyone see the compensation for the Lions trade? Would be about the same comp for the Patriots to move up right about now.
He's a 35 (soon to be 36) year old QB with a lot of mileage and getting paid a fortune. Dude needs to chill.
Comp: Cowboys 24th pick and 2025 7th, in exchange for Lions No. 29 and 3rd round pick (73)
Nothing in that quote indicates anything about Cousins’ attitude or disposition other than surprise. I mean, we can infer that he’s not happy but we don’t know that he’s freaking out or anything.
Basically if had a QB you went OL, if you didn't you went QB. Exceptions of course but it's either get a QB or protect him.
"McCartney said there is frustration and confusion coming from Cousins' camp because Atlanta did not use its first-round pick to make the team better in 2024."
Using a top 10 pick on Penix is legitimately banana-land crazy stuff after signing a brand new QB to a 4 year deal.
I think I'd cut Cousins some slack on being pretty confused by the pick.
Wow — that is lopsided for the Cowboys under the points chart. 885 for Dallas and 740 for Dallas.
Plus Cousins could have been lead to believe that Atlanta would use their draft capital to surround him with talent.
I think Kirk is fine, other than to wonder why his team's management are idiots.
Meh. Imagine Green Bay passing on Aaron Rodgers because they already had Brett Favre in the fold. He wasn't top 10, but still.
That shouldn't have been a surprise. And he's got $100 million reasons to not really worry about it.
Perhaps. But he’s not wrong.
Atlanta giving Cousins all that money and then not using the #8 pick to make the team better is simply insane.
This misses the point pretty spectacularly.
The time to be thinking about spending a top 10 pick on a QB is not in the same off-season where you signed a veteran free agent to a massive contract. (IMO, of course.)
Imagine being a Falcon fan this offseason, your team passes on hiring the GOAT coach, signs a vet QB anyway, and then drafts Penix at #8 rather than swapping back with those teams in the mid first desperate for a QB.