2) The Cleveland Browns should exchange for Kirk cousins: fact
Trade for Deshaun Watson was a galactic failure. Jimmy Haslam said it so much last week. When such an epic explosion occurs, everything we can do is admit the error and move forward.
The remaining cost of Watson’s Boondoggle is sunk for the Browns. The challenge is to find production from the quarter position while they pay the rest of this price. Ideally, the answer would be a recruit on an affordable affair that could immediately take the reins. Given the lower QB harvesting in this year’s project, Cleveland could avoid the coupling of its wagon to another Prospect Boom or Bust, a gambit to which the team has failed several times. If the Browns are not willing to take Sheduer Sanders with the overall choice n ° 2 (assuming that Cam Ward goes first in the Titans), their best bet to participate in the 2025 season is to import another veteran – with all the respect that I owe you, the recent acquisition of the Kenny Pickett offseason is not.
This is where Cousins enters the cat. With essentially all the QBs worthy of starting available having been swallowed up, the Quadruple Bowler Pro represents the best remaining veteran option.
Last season in Atlanta, cousins fought powerfully in the section, showing a lack of mobility after the injury of Achilles which put an end prematurely in its 2023 season in Minnesota; He also seemed to lose confidence when his precision decreased. The whole situation in Atlanta felt disabled From the start – and I’m not only talking about the selection by the falconons of another high -level quarter, Michael Penix Jr., in the draft shortly after signing cousins. Whether because of its immobility or the game call, the cousins never seemed to adapt to the offensive of the coordinator Zac Robinson, and the problems made snowball. A new start for the 36 -year -old player is necessary to prove that he can always compete.
The familiarity of Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski, with the cousins of their stay together in Minnesota (where Stefanski was offensive coordinator) informs twinning. The coach knows where the cousins thrive and do not. And the Veteran quarterrier can play the game manager for a team built to count on its defense and not return the ball while making an occasional splash game. Health is a major factor, but if Stefanski is comfortable with the mobility of cousins, it is worth doing it for a short -term stop.
In light of the cousins’ non-exchange clause, as well as the reluctance of the Browns to take the cousins contract, there are a lot of details to work. But in terms of capital drafting, the cost of acquiring cousins should not be more than a round choice of mid-tail. With Penix taking the bar in Atlanta, the Falcons should I want to go from a veteran who always wants to be a starter. They do not need their second-year QB by looking over his shoulder, even if the threat is only theoretical.
A trade may have to wait after the draft if the cousins, frightened by the appearance and change of bait and switching from last year, are worried, the Browns could also acquire it, then immediately write a recruit. There are also the advantages linked to the ceiling for Falcons to move it after June 1. But for Cleveland, even a decreased cousins is better than their current situation.
