{"id":133589,"date":"2024-05-07T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133589"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:31:15","slug":"falcons-ownership-endorsed-the-michael-penix-jr-pick-and-put-kirk-cousins-on-the-clock-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133589","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Ownership Endorsed The Michael Penix Jr. Pick And Put Kirk Cousins On The Clock. Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Penix Jr.<\/h4>\n

Three days after the\u00a0shocking draft pick<\/a>\u00a0crashed into other NFL franchise war rooms like a wrecking ball coming through an adjacent wall, the\u00a0Atlanta Falcons<\/a>\u2019 rationale for\u00a0selecting Michael Penix Jr. at No. 8 overall<\/a>\u00a0has been cemented.<\/p>\n

The question now is what it means for the remainder of\u00a0Kirk Cousins<\/a>\u2019 career.<\/p>\n

Publicly and privately, the Falcons\u2019 messaging surrounding their selection of Penix less than two months after\u00a0signing Cousins to a four-year, $180 million deal<\/a>\u00a0are some version of this: Penix has a rare talent that Atlanta believes it will need sooner or later, so the franchise took him while it still had the chance. And the most important part of that decision: Team owner Arthur Blank signed off on it. This is what multiple sources with knowledge of the decision told Yahoo Sports, including those aligned with the Falcons, Penix and Cousins, whose career has now seemingly been locked into a countdown in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Gone is the notion that Blank was somehow in the dark when it came to the Falcons\u2019 plans to target Penix, which became a point of vague speculation after\u00a0general manager Terry Fontenot was captured on Atlanta\u2019s war room video feed<\/a>\u00a0having an animated discussion with the club owner following the pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Penix Jr. Three days after the\u00a0shocking draft pick\u00a0crashed into other NFL franchise war rooms like a wrecking ball coming through an adjacent wall, the\u00a0Atlanta Falcons\u2019 rationale for\u00a0selecting Michael Penix Jr. at No. 8 overall\u00a0has been cemented. The question now is what it means for the remainder of\u00a0Kirk Cousins\u2019 career. Publicly and privately, the Falcons\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133592,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133589\/revisions\/133592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}