The protection just doesn't hold up during play action for whatever reason. They have enough success on the ground that play action should be working, but it just hasn't been, and that was a big part of Cousin's arsenal. No doubt some of the issue is lowered mobility due to the Achilles injury, which will hopefully be back to full health by start of next season
Live in Atlanta.. huge falcons fan.. every week we have been asking why tf don't we use play action!! We run the ball pretty damn well.. kirk ankle appears to not be 100% but he still makes the handoffs on outside zones so we have no idea why we hate pa.. honestly think our oc thinks it is illegal to fake a handoff!! Pisses me off
Kirk fleeced everyone. He isnt that good. One playoff win for 400 million career money. He can retire laughing all the way to the bank. He can beat the bad teams.
He doesn't have KOC, Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hockenson or Aaron Jones. That's what's wrong. He followed the money. Pennix will be starting very soon.
@@atg1338my guy. Wrong context to be calling somebody a clown. It wasn’t a forced fumble. Lack of awareness. I’d be willing to bet JT has one of if not the highest IQ’s on the team. That was a dumbass moment if there ever were one though. Out of character but he was the clown that day. Probably the most avoidable way to cost your team points.
@@harrishogan943 I actually like Dan’s takes. He’s rarely ever unfair to players, especially quarterbacks. And what he’s saying about Kirk is more than fair LOL
Kirk Cousins with all his experience in the NFL is replaced by Penix and somehow Penix will do better? Yeah, Kirk lost a step with the injury and Penix could make that up with his mobility, but it's a big ask for him to come in and win games with only 3 games left in the season.
If Wentz starts for Reid, it will be interesting to see how they use him. I wish we lived in a world where we could see what a guy like Reid could do with a guy like Cousins in an alternate universe.
It was evident that the Achilles injury killed him when those videos of him moving around in camp came out. He can’t move! He cannot stick that foot in the ground and drive the ball. Now it seems like he lost all confidence because he hasn’t been able to overcome the physical limitation
Our OC is not experienced, he's not getting our guys open consistently. Interior offensive line is abysmal in pass protection. A standard 4 man rush gets home much too often. Can't block for play action passes. This is just ridiculous to blame it all on him.
@ your right his wife’s family is in Atlanta and he does have a no trade clause but the Colts have a good offensive line and, I think, a good head coach and a winnable division. I mean Atlanta if they wanted too could bench Kirk no matter how much they paying him I don’t think Kirk would want to be a backup
This is what happens when you take someone out of KOC’s system. Sam Darnold is going to get PAID but a few teams will look at Kirk and question things.
My opinion, I think he’s not fully back from his Achilles injury. I think it’s the same thing as with Aaron Rodgers. I think both would probably have better 2025 seasons with another year away from that injury.
In baseball this is what we call a slump. Considering he isn’t trusting himself, losing confidence, and thinks he’s doing too much… that’s all it is. A slump. Just bring it back to the basics again which for him might be running more play action passing
They ruined his confidence taking a QB in top 10 before even taking a snap for them haha…this isn’t Madden. He had no built-in equity with locker room/fans
It should be a question of why they are not running more play action. Is it because of cousin's injury recovery, or is it on the coaching? With those back, this team should be running a bunch of play action pending the oline able to block long enough.
He now knows he should have stayed in Minnesota. He would have had atleast this year to remain the starter and continue the good play he had been showing throughout his time there.
You can’t claim to be a huge fan of cousins and then leak your conversation in this way on a national stage. He made a successful and established veteran QB seem like a rookie
Jefferson and Addison, Hockenson and Mattison -> London and Mooney, Pitts and Robinson Cousins was not the catalyst to the Minnesota offense, he was the game manager and piss poor at that.
I'm a lifelong Packers fan, and Orlovsky just shows his ass again this vid. Its like once Rapsheet left Shifty Schefter and Polo Dan got 10 notches lazier in their takes. There is no actual way that Orlovsky knows if Cousins is having issues with identifying coverages or "what he's seeing." He's blaming Cousins for what we'd usually call "Expected difficulties in a first year with a new offense"
Kirk has been throwing slow balls, He’s slow moving throughout the pocket, weak separation by WRs, Bad OL pass protection on PA pass. Kirk is extremely uncomfortable in the pocket and organization right now, he knows a DAWG is on his Tail and the division is slipping through their fingers. Recipe for change or disaster.
@@haveagreatday6952if it means winning, then yes. We barely scratched by the raiders. Regardless if we start him the rest of the season or not, he’s outta there next season
So they trade for the best play action passer of the last five years and don't run play action, wow, why am I not surprised ? What does surprise me is San Diego( excuse me LA) got Harbaugh for their coach. This is gonna make it next to impossible to do things like trading for the best play action passer and not doing play action passes. How are the Chargers going to compete with the Falcons for building the best nonchampionship team year after year😂😂😂, which they have been doing for like 50 years😂. It is truly the end of an era.
@MikeBryant-m9y Very a different things. See, a genius like me understands context. The 1st round QB pick is only bad in context. Because you could have just picked Penix without signing an aging QB to a top of the market deal. That's why people conplained. If you bring in a stop-gap QB like say a Sam Darnold at a low end deal to be the starter and then draft Penix no one would have said anything. Or if you start Penix right, he is 25 years old after all, no one would say anything. But you did the two things together that make no sense, top of the market QB signing AND 1st round QB.
Poor coaching is the reason. You have a QB who is the best in the league at play action passes and Falcons are running 0 Play action plays, This is a leadership problem you have to play your players strengths
I’m just glad we have a hall of fame qb like Dan to let us know what Kirk is feeling .
LMFAO
😂
You attacked the messenger and not the message. You lose.
What a dumb take. If a former NFL QB can’t have an opinion on NFL QBs then nobody can have an opinion ever.
I'll take a former 12 year NFL veteran over any coaches/analysts who never played a snap but speak like they know everything.
Atlanta's inability to use play action is destroying the King of Play Action from the inside out!
The protection just doesn't hold up during play action for whatever reason. They have enough success on the ground that play action should be working, but it just hasn't been, and that was a big part of Cousin's arsenal. No doubt some of the issue is lowered mobility due to the Achilles injury, which will hopefully be back to full health by start of next season
it's because he is WASHED and too slow to run it.
*King of Contract Negotiations
King of play action 😂😂 skol
Live in Atlanta.. huge falcons fan.. every week we have been asking why tf don't we use play action!! We run the ball pretty damn well.. kirk ankle appears to not be 100% but he still makes the handoffs on outside zones so we have no idea why we hate pa.. honestly think our oc thinks it is illegal to fake a handoff!! Pisses me off
That Orlovsky painting is wild!
Dude’s career makes AR look competent
Dan was dog buns
@@A_r78😂😂😂 dog buns!!!!!
I would've painted him doing multiple talkshows.
But all those teams he backed up for 😂
lmaooo
This didn’t age well! 😂
Aged like milk in a warm refrigerator
at least he hasn't run out of the back of the endzone
Fr 😂
Right, he is running into 1 TDs in 4 games.
Yet......
@@nickbomberger5737 - And of course he can’t run out of the back of the end zone, he literally has ZERO rushing yards this season.
@@DrPhill96 kirk don't move lol
Flabbergasted that they gave this dude a contract while being his age after his injury. wtf were they thinking
Same thought process as Raheem Morris > Bill Belichik...........
This aged horribly
Not even joking I swear I heard someone fart on air last night followed up by a quiet “cmon Dan”
Quif?
Sums up the game last night tbh
Clip it and post it
😄
You never fart before ? What is so weird about farting. You do it every day
if I won 3 games in the NFL I would 100% have a full mural of myself. Classy as always, Daniel!
😂😂
Breaking news...Morris names Penix starter 😅😅😅 aged well Dan O😅
Kirk fleeced everyone. He isnt that good. One playoff win for 400 million career money. He can retire laughing all the way to the bank. He can beat the bad teams.
They cannot send that man out there again. Penix needs to go in ASAP
He doesn't have KOC, Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hockenson or Aaron Jones. That's what's wrong. He followed the money. Pennix will be starting very soon.
Wow dude you called this
Love Dan swearing up and down that Penix won’t start just for the falcons to name him the starter hours later
0:16 see how easy it is to not drop the ball before you cross the goal line
Says the 🤡 who has never played or coached at any level.
@@atg1338my guy. Wrong context to be calling somebody a clown. It wasn’t a forced fumble. Lack of awareness. I’d be willing to bet JT has one of if not the highest IQ’s on the team. That was a dumbass moment if there ever were one though. Out of character but he was the clown that day. Probably the most avoidable way to cost your team points.
Not even a day later Cousins is benched 😂
“I don’t think it’s happenin”
Morgan Freeman voice - “It in fact did happen, a few hours later to be exact. “
Ya his confidence is still coaching in MN, he is called KOC. 😂
Personally never letting Dan Orlovsky call me out like that
Nobody thinks Orlovsky is a serious analyst. He is basically Stephen A's clown.
You an nfl player?
He probably won’t visit your Arby’s bro you’re good
Let's assume you was in a position to be spoken about by him, what you gonna do about it?
Cry online, end him. Grow up, snowflake.
@@harrishogan943 I actually like Dan’s takes. He’s rarely ever unfair to players, especially quarterbacks. And what he’s saying about Kirk is more than fair LOL
I really think it could be a jets/panthers situation, I'm not too confident that its kirk cousins and not a dysfunctional offensive system.
Doubt it. Kirk was balling mid season
Welp, Dan with another take that doesnt age well.
Kirk Cousins with all his experience in the NFL is replaced by Penix and somehow Penix will do better? Yeah, Kirk lost a step with the injury and Penix could make that up with his mobility, but it's a big ask for him to come in and win games with only 3 games left in the season.
If Wentz starts for Reid, it will be interesting to see how they use him. I wish we lived in a world where we could see what a guy like Reid could do with a guy like Cousins in an alternate universe.
Should’ve been benched before MNF so Pennix could get an easy first game v Raiders on prime time
This didn’t age well 🤣
Imagine having a big Penix and not using it.
😂😂
It was evident that the Achilles injury killed him when those videos of him moving around in camp came out. He can’t move! He cannot stick that foot in the ground and drive the ball. Now it seems like he lost all confidence because he hasn’t been able to overcome the physical limitation
Kirk Cousins doesn't care. He is rich asf
Our OC is not experienced, he's not getting our guys open consistently. Interior offensive line is abysmal in pass protection. A standard 4 man rush gets home much too often. Can't block for play action passes. This is just ridiculous to blame it all on him.
My prediction is Kirk Cousins gets traded to the Colts next season and Shane Steichen gets his guy.
He has a no trade clause, so he is ONLY going somewhere if he actually wants to go. Besides the $$$ bag, he went to ATL for his wife's family.
@ your right his wife’s family is in Atlanta and he does have a no trade clause but the Colts have a good offensive line and, I think, a good head coach and a winnable division. I mean Atlanta if they wanted too could bench Kirk no matter how much they paying him I don’t think Kirk would want to be a backup
AR is the guy in indy as long as steichan is there he's his project
Well this aged great lol, penix starting next game
Kirk forced his way out of Atlanta. He's going to the Niners to team up with Shanahan
This aged like milk 🥛. Penix was just named the Starter. 🙈
Boy this didnt age well lol
Fast forward to 4 hours after this and pennix was named the starter.....
"I don't think it's happenin..." aaaand an hour later it happened. Kirk in benched.
This is what happens when you take someone out of KOC’s system. Sam Darnold is going to get PAID but a few teams will look at Kirk and question things.
His issue is the crap the falcons gave him to work with. That Falcons O is really not his style ..
Dude just got benched lmao
Vikings offensive line is probably superior to Atlanta's.
Passing:
Cmp%
66.9
Yds
42979
Y/A
7.6
TD
288
Int.
126
Hey pat what's with all the bots in the comment section and the 15 second unstoppable ads?
My opinion, I think he’s not fully back from his Achilles injury. I think it’s the same thing as with Aaron Rodgers. I think both would probably have better 2025 seasons with another year away from that injury.
And once again Dan runs out of the back of the end zone, because the falcons just announced their benching cousins for Michael pennix.
In baseball this is what we call a slump. Considering he isn’t trusting himself, losing confidence, and thinks he’s doing too much… that’s all it is. A slump. Just bring it back to the basics again which for him might be running more play action passing
Dan, my friends were like who is this guy... I was like, he was a QB.... i think?
Who decided to count orlock needed to be a regular fixture on the show and can you please fire them
What did he say besides an informative take that bothered you?
aaaaaand Dan O was wrong again lol
Dan has a really gifted football mind always appreciate his takes
Kirk has to be hiding an injury and not telling anyone. Dude looked like a top 10 qb from week 2 to week 9. He knows once he’s benched it’s over
I’d take $140m guaranteed to be benched the whole time
KOC made Kirk just like Darnold
KIRK FINALLY GOT BENCHED
They have one of the freakiest tight ends in the league and barely use him. The play calling is garbage and Kirk has always been a game manager.
Dan says something about QBs.
"What does he know"
Everyone in the comments
"Well i would......".
"See i think"....."
"I wouldn't want......"
I bet Kurt missis my Vikes. He chose cash as always, and I'm so glad he did.
End of the day you'll both end up at home watching someone else lift the Lombardi
@@TheFifapro44 Don't be Jelly, it makes you look like a child.
@MNWILD43 Jealous of a poverty franchise who will NEVER win it all LOL sure buddy whatever helps you sleep at night.
You're a vikings fan and don't even know his name lmao
@@TheFifapro44 Don't cry, it's Christmas time. Merry Christmas.
How about the play calling I believe this was the same OC that LA used last year and he is too nice to call out the coaching
No not the same, Zach Robinson is in his first year of OC.
Dan was great at running out of the back of the end zone💯
Kirk cousins always been mid lol ! He got paid but he had a great career !
Kirk is a Deer in Headlights!
He’s an aging QB coming off an Achilles….sound familiar?…..
Everytome I see Orlovsky I just rememeber him blowing his cheeks out thinking the mic wouldn't pick it up 🤣
Lol people finally stopped doubting him and started to instead expect him to perform with expectations and he can’t handle it
Atlanta office playing 4D chess with Kirko
ahem... YOU RAN OUT THE BACK OF THE ENDZONE
Cousins undervalued KOC.
They ruined his confidence taking a QB in top 10 before even taking a snap for them haha…this isn’t Madden. He had no built-in equity with locker room/fans
He’s Kirk Cousins; ‘nuff said. 😵💫
They just named Penix the starter. Shows what Dan thinks 😂
Chemistry looks like something that EA should put into maddens franchise mode 🤔
It should be a question of why they are not running more play action. Is it because of cousin's injury recovery, or is it on the coaching? With those back, this team should be running a bunch of play action pending the oline able to block long enough.
It seems Raheem Morris has done the Vikings a great favor by taking Kirk Cousins.
He now knows he should have stayed in Minnesota. He would have had atleast this year to remain the starter and continue the good play he had been showing throughout his time there.
Orlovsky saying this when he ran out the back of an endzone is distasteful
If only we could all be terrible at our jobs and be guaranteed millions…
He had protection all night, he's scared of getting hit 👻👻👻
Bring out the durag, it’s a new era in atlanta 😎
You can’t claim to be a huge fan of cousins and then leak your conversation in this way on a national stage. He made a successful and established veteran QB seem like a rookie
I mean. He’s on an organization that’s been cursed since the superbowl. He’s just next in line
Jefferson and Addison, Hockenson and Mattison -> London and Mooney, Pitts and Robinson
Cousins was not the catalyst to the Minnesota offense, he was the game manager and piss poor at that.
You know yo career wasn’t sht , when you get a painting of 3 first down completions…
But as a vikes fan , just like to tell Kirk “😆😂🤣”!
It’s the coaching and play calling. It’s the defense not doing anything to help the offense Ever.
Defense has kept them in games since the BYE surprisingly
Just a reminder that anyone can be a NFL analyst
I'm a lifelong Packers fan, and Orlovsky just shows his ass again this vid. Its like once Rapsheet left Shifty Schefter and Polo Dan got 10 notches lazier in their takes.
There is no actual way that Orlovsky knows if Cousins is having issues with identifying coverages or "what he's seeing." He's blaming Cousins for what we'd usually call "Expected difficulties in a first year with a new offense"
Because JJ made him look good in MN.
This aged pretty good Dan.
Only team we need to build like offensively is the offense the Kurt Warner Rams ran . Why we need to look like the Chiefs,Lions,Bills.
They just announced Penix is starting
He is still injured
Kirk has been throwing slow balls, He’s slow moving throughout the pocket, weak separation by WRs, Bad OL pass protection on PA pass. Kirk is extremely uncomfortable in the pocket and organization right now, he knows a DAWG is on his Tail and the division is slipping through their fingers. Recipe for change or disaster.
I know what’s wrong!
The contract was too big which made his head big because he does not care less about the Falcons, only he care about himself!!!
when are we gonna give eyesight exams on the elderly?
He's seeing ghosts because he doesn't have Darrisaw protecting his blind side.
Time for Michael Penix next season 🤔
Next week* I agree
And what, keep paying Kirk millions to ride the bench?
@@haveagreatday6952if it means winning, then yes. We barely scratched by the raiders. Regardless if we start him the rest of the season or not, he’s outta there next season
Yikes! Somebody chucked Dan under an Atalanta Bus. He did say however that the team loves him. Not totally a Cheeks Take.
So they trade for the best play action passer of the last five years and don't run play action, wow, why am I not surprised ? What does surprise me is San Diego( excuse me LA) got Harbaugh for their coach. This is gonna make it next to impossible to do things like trading for the best play action passer and not doing play action passes. How are the Chargers going to compete with the Falcons for building the best nonchampionship team year after year😂😂😂, which they have been doing for like 50 years😂. It is truly the end of an era.
Kirk cousins lost his confidence?
We don’t like that.
Dan Orlovsky has only 3 more wins than I do in the National Football League and I’ve never even been to a game
It’s the wide receivers
These are the same people asking why the falcons drafted a first round quarterback. This is why 😝
It wasn't why draft a 1st round QB, nobody had a problem with picking Penix.....
It was why give Kirk $160M, AND draft Penix. It's one or the other.
Why would you sign an old qb for a ton of money and draft an old rookie? The falcons are a joke
@@The_Real_ZC same thing genius
@MikeBryant-m9y Very a different things.
See, a genius like me understands context. The 1st round QB pick is only bad in context. Because you could have just picked Penix without signing an aging QB to a top of the market deal. That's why people conplained.
If you bring in a stop-gap QB like say a Sam Darnold at a low end deal to be the starter and then draft Penix no one would have said anything.
Or if you start Penix right, he is 25 years old after all, no one would say anything.
But you did the two things together that make no sense, top of the market QB signing AND 1st round QB.
@@The_Real_ZC whatever you say okay 👍
Poor coaching is the reason. You have a QB who is the best in the league at play action passes and Falcons are running 0 Play action plays, This is a leadership problem you have to play your players strengths
Cousins is 36, he looks old because he's old. Only one QB is Tom Brady, and thats Brady.