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A little over a month ago, when Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry was addressing the status of quarterback Deshaun Watson, he focused his assessment through the health of his player. Watson had been lost for the season to a torn Achilles, and the first priority was the quarterback’s health and recovery. After that?
“Everything else we’ll deal with at a later moment,” Berry said.
That later moment, and the options to facilitate the health and recovery of the franchise, are now exponentially more interesting. For the first time since Watson’s performance and health went off a cliff — taking the Browns’ 2024 season with him — the Browns may be presented with a realistic bridge out of the Watson era. And it could come from the very team that Cleveland outbid to acquire him in 2022.
Enter the Atlanta Falcons and now-benched quarterback Kirk Cousins.
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As crazy as it sounds, if the Browns are serious about bringing in some competition for Watson in 2025, Cousins would present the combination of the most talented, experienced, cheap and scheme-appropriate player available. Of course, at the moment, Cousins isn’t available. So there are some moving parts here to consider. Let’s walk through the logic, starting with …
Michael Penix Jr. plays well enough to make Kirk Cousins an afterthought
Everyone is already writing Cousins out of the Falcons script for good, but there is a very important step that has to come first. Simply put, Penix has to both stay healthy and play well enough to show that Cousins was definitively the problem over the last five weeks of the season. Because the simple truth is he wasn’t the entire problem the first nine games of the season, when the Falcons amassed a 6-3 record and Cousins’ touchdown-to-interception ratio was a workable 17-to-7. Was he perfect? No. But there was no anticipating him being…
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Publish date : 2024-12-19 01:25:00
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