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Kirk Cousins reacts to the Falcons selecting Michael Penix Jr. in the new preview for Season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ series<\/p>\n

As Falcons<\/a> quarterback Kirk Cousins<\/a> prepares for his second season in Atlanta, the circumstances surrounding his job have changed drastically. One year after signing a four-year, $180 million contract, Cousins is set to serve as the NFL’s highest-paid backup quarterback.<\/p>\n

Last season, the 36-year-old led the Falcons to a 6-3 start before playing arguably the worst five-game stretch of his NFL career. Atlanta benched the veteran QB for rookie Michael Penix Jr<\/a>. in Week 16, and the offense immediately showed signs of life.<\/p>\n

Cousins’ roller-coaster year will be featured on Season 2 of Netflix’s “Quarterback<\/a>.” The documentary-style series follows Cousins, Lions<\/a> quarterback Jared Goff and Bengals<\/a> QB Joe Burrow during the ups and downs of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n

While we don’t know just how much of the Falcons’ quarterback controversy will be shown, we can see Cousins’ reaction to the team selecting Penix in the latest preview for Season 2 (see below).<\/p>\n

WATCH: Quarterback Season 2 trailer<\/p>\n

Since the team spent a top-10 pick on Penix, there was simply no going back to Cousins, even with his $40 million cap<\/a> hit in 2025. The trade market for Cousins has been mostly non-existent due to his contract, but that’s likely to change at some point during the season.<\/p>\n

Season 2 of “Quarterback” premieres July 8 on Netflix. It will be Cousins’ second time appearing on the show. He appeared on Season 1, along with former Falcons quarterback Marcus Mariota<\/a> and Chiefs Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins reacts to the Falcons selecting Michael Penix Jr. in the new preview for Season 2 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[821,247,265,822,223,254,2554,228,1574,4485,4486,227,256,7858,146,113,441,224,7,8673,7839,1433,1029,1573,1577,1070,3604,294,147,820,830,859,1862,11695,1863,6126,1879,248,267,13476,246,88,6,245,264,858,499,7853,1602,1982,9,266,1980,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-153997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-atlanta","13":"tag-atlanta-falcons","14":"tag-atlantafalcons","15":"tag-bengals","16":"tag-burrow","17":"tag-celebrities","18":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","19":"tag-cincinnati","20":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","21":"tag-cousins","22":"tag-detroit","23":"tag-detroit-lions","24":"tag-entertainment","25":"tag-falcons","26":"tag-football","27":"tag-ga","28":"tag-goff","29":"tag-jared","30":"tag-jared-goff","31":"tag-joe","32":"tag-joe-burrow","33":"tag-jr","34":"tag-kirk","35":"tag-kirk-cousins","36":"tag-lions","37":"tag-local","38":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","39":"tag-mahomes","40":"tag-marcus","41":"tag-marcus-mariota","42":"tag-mariota","43":"tag-michael","44":"tag-michael-penix-jr","45":"tag-national","46":"tag-national-sports","47":"tag-netflix","48":"tag-neutral","49":"tag-news","50":"tag-nfl","51":"tag-overall","52":"tag-overall-neutral","53":"tag-patrick","54":"tag-patrick-mahomes","55":"tag-penix","56":"tag-smg","57":"tag-smg-timely","58":"tag-sports","59":"tag-sports-news","60":"tag-timely","61":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}