.The Atlanta georgia Falcons had fairly probably the boldest offseason in the NFL, authorizing quarterback and also four-time Pro Bowler Kirk Cousins to a four-year, $180 million offer ($ one hundred thousand guaranteed) and also composing Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. along with the No. 8 choice in the 2024 NFL Draft.Team proprietor Arthur Space made the case for why the Falcons, whom he identified "private thinkers," were smart to assign sizable information to a set of quarterbacks." Our company made it crystal clear to Kirk and others that our team probably were heading to draft a quarterback during this draft. As it turned out, Michael Penix, for our training team and also our personnel team, rated extremely higher. They viewed him as a significant player," Space said to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday. "Our experts have actually been actually via a circumstance, post-Matt Ryan, when our experts are actually viewing that film when our team failed to possess a franchise business quarterback. Our experts didn't intend to repeat that again. I mean, I absolutely really did not. I'm very conscious all types of sequence preparation. After 60-odd years of organization, in any kind of organization, that's critical. At the key posture, the quarterback setting in the NFL, that's quite essential. " Therefore, just listening to our mentoring workers as well as our personnel team, they actually made the decision. Michael was mosting likely to be available at number 8. They observed an extraordinary ability. Kirk Cousins is our franchise business quarterback, is our beginning quarterback, as well as he seems to become performing great coming from a clinical standpoint." Cousins, who are going to be actually 36 at the beginning of the 2024 season, possessed his 2023 campaign stopped after eight activities due to a torn Achilles. He invested the previous six times of his profession along with the Minnesota Vikings, which was preceded through six seasons in Washington, along with him being actually the full time starter the last 3 years (2015-17). Just before the Achilles tear, Cousins totted 2,331 passing backyards, 18 passing touchdowns, 5 interceptions as well as a 103.8 passer rating, while accomplishing 69.5% of his passes.Meanwhile, Penix finished second in 2023 Heisman Prize voting, a year after completing eighth. Over his 2 times in Washington (2022-23), Penix balanced 4,772 passing yards, 33.5 passing goals, 9.5 interceptions and a 154.2 passer ranking per season, while finishing 65.4% of his passes.The Huskies went a mixed 25-3 with Penix under facility, highlighted through reaching final period's University Football Playoff National Championship game.Atlanta is actually going over a third consecutive 7-10 season, which resulted in scalp coach Arthur Smith's dismissal in favor of past Los Angeles Rams defensive planner as well as past Falcons interim instructor Raheem Morris. Moreover, the Falcons have not created the playoffs or possessed a winning file given that 2017. Eagles under 10.5 success, Cowboys, Falcons over emphasize Danny Parkins' gain complete wagers Atlanta has begun three quarterbacks over the past two years, which came after trading the veteran and also four-time Pro Bowler Ryan to the Indianapolis Colts in 2022: Desmond Ridder, Marcus Mariota and also Taylor Heinicke." We really hope as well as wish he is actually [Cousins] received three to four wonderful years before him, perhaps past that. Who knows? But our company additionally know that at some point, there will certainly be a point that our team'll require a shift," Empty mentioned regarding Atlanta's future at quarterback. "Our team would like to see to it our team do that easily." Empty referenced the Environment-friendly Gulf Packers, who traded as much as select quarterback Jordan Love in the 2020 NFL Draught and also sat him behind Aaron Rodgers for three times, as a possible style for the Falcons Love assisted the Packers get to the NFC divisional cycle in his first complete time under center (2023) and earned a four-year, $220 thousand expansion from Environment-friendly Gulf last week. [Want terrific stories delivered right to your inbox? Develop or even log in to your FOX Sports profile, comply with organizations, crews and players to obtain a personalized bulletin daily.] Observe Observe your favorites to individualize your FOX Sports expertise Atlanta ga Falcons Michael Penix Jr. Kirk Cousins Obtain a lot more coming from National Football League Observe your favorites to get details regarding video games, information as well as even more.