Falcons signed Kirk Cousins to 4-year/180M, $100 million guaranteed

BelowZero said
Can't believe people here think this is a good signing at all. People's irrational hatred of DA and DC are showing. Kirk is 35, coming off a fairly nasty (and late) ACL injury, and learning a new offense with new pieces. It'll be a full season before they see any results. Another year older.

He had JJ, far and away the best WR in the league, and looked below average nearly all the time. London and Pitts are no JJ lol.

My friend was saying he thinks this makes the Falcons the best team in the division. Of course he also thought Cousins was the QB for the Minny Miracle (he's not the only one apparently I corrected another person social media on that, and saw more people misremembering that I didn't engage with) so maybe that's part of it. Historically he does play the Saints well and I acknowledge that, but that was also on two different teams, one of which I believe have had a better roster than Atlanta does now for the last 3-5 years. What it really boils down for to me is that Kirk Cousins was essentially the "Derek Carr" of his FA class when he was leaving Washington, good but not consistently great for an organization that's been in the doldrums for years. He was brought in to take Minnesota to another level and it was a mixed bag with some highs and lows but ultimately they didn't get close to a superbowl. I don't think he's a bad QB, but I don't think he's moving the needle too much for ATL and especially not over one off-season.