AtlantaOn the Netflix series Quarterback, Kirk Cousins stated that he played through a right arm injury during the previous season, partly to prevent rookie backup Michael Penix Jr. from taking his starting position with the Atlanta Falcons.
Cousins mentioned an ankle ailment that limited his mobility at minicamp last month, saying he realized after the previous season that he wasn’t as healthy as he believed at the time.
He claimed that after suffering a serious injury to his right shoulder and ribs on November 10 from New Orleans’ Payton Turner, he made the best choice he could at the time in the seventh and last episode of the Netflix series’ second season, which was made available on Tuesday.
In a previous episode, Cousins told the training personnel on the sidelines that he had a really bad elbow injury, but he swore he was fine and never missed any time.
Cousins stated on the show, “My elbow lit up instantly, and I knew I irritated something.” I experienced a sharp pain that seemed to go straight through my elbow. As soon as my shoulder began to ache a lot, I realized that something was a little off. I had few other sources to rely on to obtain the strength I required after losing my elbow and shoulder.
With “right shoulder, right elbow” restricting his participation in one practice, Cousins only made an appearance on the Week 11 injury report and nothing else. Over the following four games, he threw eight interceptions and only one touchdown throw, and Atlanta went 1-3 before turning to Penix.
In regard to Drew Brees’ book about Doug Flutie telling him never to let his backup see the field, Cousins stated on Quarterback that he did not want to come out because “you also know that if you sit down Week 10 and take two or three weeks or more to let it heal, you may never get your job back.”
In this league, if you give someone else the chance, if you want to be Wally Pipp and Lou Gehrig is behind you, that’s something I’ve always known.
In addition, Cousins stated that he felt somewhat duped by Atlanta’s decision to sign him in free agency last year and then choose Penix with the eighth choice in the draft. He claimed that if he had known the Falcons would select a quarterback in the top 10, he might have re-signed with the Minnesota Vikings.
“Undoubtedly, my choice would have been different if I had known about free agency,” Cousins stated in the season’s opening episode. Given how much we enjoyed Minnesota, I had no reason to leave if both clubs were going to select a quarterback highly.
With training camp starting in two weeks, Cousins, who turns 37 in August, is still on Atlanta’s roster. Since Washington selected him in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL Draft, this will be his fourteenth season.
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