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Rich Eisen opened his show today by saying the Penix pick was the most stunned he’s been in 21 years of covering the NFL draft.
It’s just an impossibility for the Cousins signing *and* the Penix pick to both be right. If Cousins is a bust you wasted $100M+ and will have dead cap issues from it thru the 2026 season. If Cousins plays up to his contract you just wasted the number 8 pick in the draft for a team that’s in win now mode. Not to mention Arthur Blank is 81 years old. I don’t think he’s as interested in how the team will look in 2028. He wants to win now. And from the looks of that interaction they had last night, it looked like Blank wanted an explanation.
The reports today were that the Rams and the Colts called the Falcons about trading up because they both wanted Bowers. If I’m the Falcons I call the Raiders, because I know they wanted Penix, and I call either the Rams or the Colts and work out a 3 team deal that lands Penix in LV, Bowers in Indy/LA, and the Falcons get the picks compensation they were offered last night, but with the 2025 first rounder instead of the 2024 first rounder. That probably won’t happen, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it did. The Falcons really stepped in it and should do anything they can to unring that bell.
It’s just an impossibility for the Cousins signing *and* the Penix pick to both be right. If Cousins is a bust you wasted $100M+ and will have dead cap issues from it thru the 2026 season. If Cousins plays up to his contract you just wasted the number 8 pick in the draft for a team that’s in win now mode. Not to mention Arthur Blank is 81 years old. I don’t think he’s as interested in how the team will look in 2028. He wants to win now. And from the looks of that interaction they had last night, it looked like Blank wanted an explanation.
The reports today were that the Rams and the Colts called the Falcons about trading up because they both wanted Bowers. If I’m the Falcons I call the Raiders, because I know they wanted Penix, and I call either the Rams or the Colts and work out a 3 team deal that lands Penix in LV, Bowers in Indy/LA, and the Falcons get the picks compensation they were offered last night, but with the 2025 first rounder instead of the 2024 first rounder. That probably won’t happen, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it did. The Falcons really stepped in it and should do anything they can to unring that bell.