Falcons’ Kirk Cousins makes alarming feedback about well being amid business needs

It’s hardly ever a secret that veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins needs the Atlanta Falcons to chop or business him once imaginable now that the membership is transferring ahead with 2024 first-round draft select Michael Penix Jr. as its starter. 

While talking with journalists on Tuesday, Cousins indicated he nonetheless hasn’t absolutely returned to how he felt sooner than he suffered a torn Achilles in October 2023.

“When the season ended last year, I started getting into working on my body and having the time to do that,” Cousins defined, as shared through Rick Farlow of the Associated Press. “I thought I was much better than I was. On (a scale) of one to 10, I thought I was at an eight, but I was really back at a three or four and now I’m getting back to that six, seven (or) eight. You start to realize that you weren’t as far along as you thought. (There was) a lot of learning this offseason to get there.”

Cousins recovered from the Achilles setback in time to function Atlanta’s Week 1 starter ultimate September, and he guided the staff to a 6-3 file. However, he then appeared “out of gas” and appeared to have a “dead” arm as he handled elbow, shoulder and ankle problems all through what turned into a four-game dropping streak. The Falcons in the end grew to become to Penix once they ended Week 15 at 7-7, and he remained within the lineup via Atlanta’s regular-season finale.

“The Achilles healed great,” Cousins famous. “What ended up happening was the ankle was just very tight. Everything was (about building) strength, so that’s what I focused on. What I realized this offseason was the strength was there. It was a mobility issue. You have to have both, and I really didn’t have the mobility. So now it’s been (about) mobility.”

Also on Tuesday, head trainer Raheem Morris strongly steered the Falcons will cling onto Cousins as their QB2 if no staff trades for the 36-year-old this summer season. The Cleveland Browns, New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers had been related with Cousins previous this offseason however have since crammed their quarterback rooms by means of different transactions. 

Cousins’ feedback on Tuesday most probably would possibly not do him any favors relating to a imaginable business taking into account it was once already believed that “he needs to get his whole body into the throws” at this degree of his profession. Even if a staff loses a starter to an harm this summer season, that membership might move on buying and selling for the model of Cousins that exists coming off his Achilles harm.