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This is Mike McCarney's spreadsheet used to find Kirk Cousin's next team/contract immediately after his season-ending injury. Since there was talk of possible teams for Dak ( if he leaves ), it's interesting how he breaks this down.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/03/18/inside-kirk-cousins-journey-minnesota-vikings-atlanta-falcons
At 3:40 p.m. local time Wednesday in Flowery Branch, Ga., an hour North of Buckhead, Kirk Cousins’s agent, Mike McCartney, was dropped off in front of the Atlanta Falcons’ facility. Twenty minutes later, the quarterback himself pulled in, timing his entrance for 4:01, and carrying a garment bag with a silver suit, white dress shirt, and shiny, solid red tie inside it.
The former Vikings quarterback loves road trips, and his journey, along with his agent and family, took 25 months before he finally locked down the guarantees he needed to continue his NFL future with the Falcons.
It was Oct. 29, and Chris Hutchinson, a Detroit-area emergency room doctor and the father of McCartney client Aidan Hutchinson, texted the agent almost immediately.
“I think it’s his Achilles,” Hutchinson wrote.
He was right. Cousins’s season was over. McCartney scrambled to call Cousins’s father, Don, and assure him that, given his experience with clients’ Achilles ruptures, he had a list of specialists that’d give Kirk the best chance at a speedy recovery.
Two weeks later, on Nov. 16, McCartney had an Excel spreadsheet ready, with the quarterbacking landscape for 2024 sketched out. He had the Las Vegas Raiders, New England Patriots, New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers listed in the “strong needs” category at the position. He had Atlanta, Chicago, the Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota and the Los Angeles Rams listed as “concerning,” and the New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders as “teams to watch.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/03/18/inside-kirk-cousins-journey-minnesota-vikings-atlanta-falcons
Inside Kirk Cousins’s Departure from Minnesota and His Arrival in Atlanta
At 3:40 p.m. local time Wednesday in Flowery Branch, Ga., an hour North of Buckhead, Kirk Cousins’s agent, Mike McCartney, was dropped off in front of the Atlanta Falcons’ facility. Twenty minutes later, the quarterback himself pulled in, timing his entrance for 4:01, and carrying a garment bag with a silver suit, white dress shirt, and shiny, solid red tie inside it.
The former Vikings quarterback loves road trips, and his journey, along with his agent and family, took 25 months before he finally locked down the guarantees he needed to continue his NFL future with the Falcons.
It was Oct. 29, and Chris Hutchinson, a Detroit-area emergency room doctor and the father of McCartney client Aidan Hutchinson, texted the agent almost immediately.
“I think it’s his Achilles,” Hutchinson wrote.
He was right. Cousins’s season was over. McCartney scrambled to call Cousins’s father, Don, and assure him that, given his experience with clients’ Achilles ruptures, he had a list of specialists that’d give Kirk the best chance at a speedy recovery.
Two weeks later, on Nov. 16, McCartney had an Excel spreadsheet ready, with the quarterbacking landscape for 2024 sketched out. He had the Las Vegas Raiders, New England Patriots, New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers listed in the “strong needs” category at the position. He had Atlanta, Chicago, the Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota and the Los Angeles Rams listed as “concerning,” and the New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders as “teams to watch.