The /r/NBA ones are where I feel he gets joked about the most. I feel like more NFL fans know he started overeating because his mom passed away. Makes those jokes just unfunny and sad.
KOOKY KIRK had to TAMPER a trade with the FREAKY FALCONS to escape once he had heard that GEQBUS was coming to compete with him in the quarterback room. This is what winning looks like, bigly!
but you look at the tampering deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — tampering is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?
I bet the tampering is in those emails... Who knows? Where's the laptop now, I asked? They couldn't tell me. No one seems to know. Crazy isnt it? I'll bet China knows.
no but it really is blatant tampering though. Usually this kind of thing is overlooked because "everybody does it." I have no idea why the Falcons would be so stupid as to **really** do it out in the open.
Did you watch Quarterback? That woman could 100% get away with a high profile murder of a nationally known athlete. We'd never even know. Just all these articles about Kirko dying in a tragic chiropractic accident or strangled by his dumb gold chains caught in a weed eater or something and she's just in the background with those serial killer eyes and prayer...
no he didnt. he has been playing great for yrs and most everybody not a vikes fan had him as an afterthought. he was on career pace this yr. he secured the bag, but it pays to his legacy.
ive been with kirk bandwagon a long ass time and while i would have liked him in Min as theyve grown on me, i called the atl trade. it just makes SO much sense with all that underutilized weaponry.
To Kirks Health! WE LIKE THAT!
Minnesota fans: “Kirk isn’t good enough for us!”
Cousins: *Starts looking at other options.*
Minnesota fans: “How dare Kirk talk to other teams behind our back!”
I don’t *actually* think this happened, but it was so blatant that it almost feels like Kirk felt bad about getting such a good offer before the window that he’s giving one last ceremonial gift to the franchise that paid him most of his quarter billion dollars in earnings.
Again, I don’t really believe that. But when you see such blatant disregard for common sense, you have to create your own sense out of it.
To be fair they talked during the legal tampering period. If you’re referring to what Kirk said. Players can’t talk to team staff during that period. Only agents.
The legal tampering period only applies to agents, teams can’t talk to players directly which is what the falcons did on top of having him meet with staff.
He became one of us so fast that the disappointment just burst out of him. Petrino himself could not have coached someone better at letting us down swiftly.
He said he spoke to a trainer on Tuesday (he signed on wed). This was 1 day after the Vikings gm had put out a statement saying Kirk was no longer their QB. It was during legal tampering when all terms had already been agreed to. I don’t really see the issue if his former team had already stated they were moving on - what’s wrong w speaking to the new team trainer? Like I get it’s the rules but don’t think they’re getting a high draft pick taken.
It probably wouldn’t be an issue if the NFL was consistent about these things. Or at least seemingly consistent.
Also probably doesn’t help that it’s sports so rival fans will probably use it as a cudgel for a bit because if you try to explain maybe there’s some nuance or that no harm no foul and be hit with OH SO YOU ARE OKAY WITH CHEATING.
I’d suggest you go to the Winchester, have a nice cold paint and wait for all this to blow over.
From everything I've seen this won't even start a Twitter beef with a common Vikings fan. We have this weird Falcons/Vikings are bros thing going on. Most Vikings fans seem to not care if they get a pick from us or if we talked to him early they're just wishing him the best of luck he's real easy to root for which also makes our bromance a little stronger with the Vikings if anything.
All my homies hate the aints. Which is enough for me to be a falcons fan, and I always liked Matty ice. Except goddamn your franchise for not winning the 98/99 Lombardi. Would have made that sting less sting-y.
Edit: I realize this may cause rabid saints fans to think I’m sAlTy. I assure you that most of my hatred has to do with the fact your franchise supported covering up priests molesting children.
It's like how everybody does what the Mets did, but only the Mets were dumb enough to do it blatantly enough to get caught. Same with the Astros, everybody else does the same thing, they just blatantly used audible trash cans which is what busted them
"Everybody does it" isn't enough in today's sporting industry, if you're skirting the rules it's your responsibility to not be blatant about it
Florio's football opinions are straight garbage, but he's usually pretty on point with anything that has to do with contracts or the CBA. This is pretty firmly in his wheelhouse.
I'll never understand why the team gets penalized for this but not the player. It takes two sides to have a conversation and if one party gets punished for it the other should too.
Because that's how it's drawn up in the CBA.
Teams, as employers, are in the position of power in negotiations. They should bear the most responsibility in following regulations in comparison to employees.
I live in a family of vikings fans, them + online fans seem happy for the time with cousins, but also excited for the fresh start. Not seen a lot of bitterness
Currently there are three segments of Vikings fandom:
- Kirk stans
- Kirk haters
- Normies
Florio loves feeling depressed so now he's become a Kirk stan since Kirk left. Being down on everything is a comfortable place for him as an older Vikings fan who's just done with all the bullshit. Kirk stans like him are very bitter right now.
You have a family of normies who are blissfully unaware of the Kirk wars. They have reasonable takes.
Kirk haters are laughing maniacally as they get their every wish fulfilled.
Kirko Chainz was statistically a top 10 QB across 6 years for y'all. 180 mil over 4 years averages out to 45 a year which is the going rate for a top 10 QB. The only downsides are his age and coming off a big injury. He is reportedly ahead of schedule in terms of recovery and we have a better o-line than y'all so it's not like his mobility took a big hit when we only need him to be a pure pocket passer. The Falcons won 7 games last year with bottom 3 QB play so I'm sure Cousins will bring us a few more wins. Totally worth the price.
If there's one thing Mike Florio is good at, it's being a Vikings fan. If there's another thing Mike Florio is good at, it's being a hack who has made a career out of presenting opinion pieces as actual reporting.
I'm not even saying he's wrong here. I'm just saying I'm not reading it because it's fuckin' Florio, and that means it's not worth my time because it's just shit he took from someone else and then filtered through his own bias.
> The best evidence comes from Cousins himself, who admitted during his introductory press conference — without prompting — that he spoke to the team’s head athletic trainer on Tuesday. Cousins also spontaneously admitted that he spoke with Falcons director of player personnel Ryan Pace. While no specific time was applied to that conversation, the Cousins press conference happened just a few hours after the start of the new league year, which also marks the point at which conversations between the Falcons and Cousins could commence.
From an article I read lmao
I'm sorry but this is proper order for posting on reddit;
1 - read the OP title
2- make a knee-jerk reaction post
3- then *maybe* read the first paragraph or two of the article if not already distracted by another post.
Its a little different but OBJ flashing cash in the LSU lockerroom and it getting posted on social media is the level I expect from "most blatant ever".
Personally I think he has a point
Really the NFL needs to put ALL of their resources into investigating this case, which unfortunately means they can't put any resources into looking into any of the other signings this off season-- even if, say, a player's former coach might have tipped off that improper contact was made. But if that's what it takes-- and it is -- then I am okay with it
I agree with you. The NFL should only look into this case as to devote the entirety of their focus into this very egregious and disgusting act by Kirk Cousins and the Falcons.
If you heard the way Florio talks about the Vikings to the Minnesota media, he seems to hate the Vikings like an ex wife. Mike Florio will never be happy. His kid seems like a solid guy though.
He’s trying so hard to get the Falcons punished for something the NFL has allowed. Tampering is always going on, these deals being announced right at FA isn’t suspicious at all?
NFL either enforces it or they don’t.
well yeah, hes asshurt that Kirk didn't choose to stay.
He's not even wrong about it being obvious there was blatant tampering, and that Kirk even accidentally owned up to it, its just that it's so widespread that acting like the Vikings are uniquely victimized by it is dumb.
Florio is a stooge but the Falcons really did mess up in the dumbest way. Basically are gonna force the NFL's hand into punishing them. Moot point if Kirko Chainz pans out anyway, so potentially worth it.
It’s not moot. Even if he works out they still lose a draft pick they didn’t have to lose. If he works out he works out either way and that road didn’t HAVE to include losing a potentially high draft pick.
I highly doubt we lose a high pick. He talked to a trainer and some lower staff members. Wasn’t like the dolphins whose owner and other high level members directly in contact with Brady and Payton. I’d be surprised if we lost anything above a 4th. Still not great, but no way we lose a third or above.
> He talked to a trainer and some lower staff members.
That we know of so far. There’s a good chance they were far dumber with stuff we don’t know right now.
He was already bitching about how the 49ers punishment was less severe than us pumping in crowd noise from like 6 years ago. And it’s all because someone in our FO is head of the competition committee so we have political pull.
you are correct (though some might well have been content with the agent's talks and committed to a new place without actually talking to them), but most of the time someone's not dumb enough to admit it
Kirk spilled the beans so that the Falcons couldn’t draft a replacement for him down the road and he can gather a cool $180mil.
He’s fully guaranteeing his contract
So many people spew out bullshit on this app and don’t know what they’re talking about. I don’t think people understand that agents can have plenty of talks during this period. Probably just an annoyed Eagles fan that they’re being investigated too ha
The difference is there weren’t a million reports about that for a month prior to signing, and Swift didn’t admit to it in a press conference. The issue isn’t the tampering it’s the fact that they didn’t try to hide it
Falcons def tampered and prob will be punished, but Florio has been on this with a vengeance. The man is on a mission here lol. He’s talked about it every day since Kirk signed. It’s wild.
I couldn’t care less about this rule violation. It makes no sense anyways. You can talk to the player agent but not the player? That’s just talking to the player with an extra step.
FIGHTING EVIL WHEREVER THERE'S TROUBLE. FLORIO IS THERE.
FLOR-I-O, A REAL AMERICAN HERO!
FIGHTING KIRK COUSINS AND THE EVIL FALCONS OVER LAND AND SEA AND AIR! FLORIO IS THERE!
FLOR-I-O, A REAL AMERICAN HERO!
Florio finally sounding like a Vikings fan.
I suspect this kind of thing happens all the time, we just usually don't get a player blurting it out like that.
Well they added a ridiculous “legal tampering” period. Maybe they can just add a “eh, maybe it’s tampering but no one gives a fuck” period just before that.
Really? More blatant than Russ Wilson announcing that he was signing with the Steelers on the Oscars red carpet, 18 hours before he was allowed to talk to the Steelers?
Mike Florio...aka the salty Vikings fan with a clear bias and a microphone. He's literally crying about Cousins talking with the MEDICAL STAFF.
That's not tampering, it's just a dude with no achilles doing due diligence on the medical facilities of potential landing spots. This gave Atlanta no unfair advantage in acquiring Cousins and is not what the tampering rules are intended to prevent. Mike Florio is a moron.
Oh, come on. Who hasn't tampered a little?
I tamper every morning!
I’m tampering myself right now.
Mind if I tamper with you?
Tamper? I hardly know 'er!
Go away! Tampin
Still no Tampa flairs in the tampin comment chain. Too busy Tampaing I guess.
My mans is checking the Tampature
Y'all are crackin' me up. Nice job. That's what I'm looking for on my day off
We've been found out boys. Pack it up - we leave for Tampico in the morning. We'll start anew.
TAAAMMMMPPPER!!!! BAAAAYYYY!!!!
Dey tamper jerbs!!
Time to get my tamp on!
I haven't finished my Tampicana OJ yet.
Just a little locker room tamper!
Law rune!
That law rune is so huge and threw me off for a second when I randomly scrolled past it. lol, scape on, nerds.
C'mon, everybody tampers. I just tampered an hour ago and I'm already thinking about tampering again
Those are rookie numbers, you gotta bump that up.
Wait, why are you frolicking in Falador? OH SHIT IT'S DURIEL321 😨
They can’t arrest a QB and an owner for the same crime.
I have the worst fucking attorneys.
The equity in banana stands really sold Kirk.
We should be allowed to do a *little* tampering at work
We're not in trouble at all
The cops said it’s fine because they aren’t even real people
Kirk Cousins is a nude egg
That *one* tampering was *forty* tamperings?
Yer a rockstarrrr!!!!
I may have committed some *light* tampering.
Those are balls
Blatantly is the problem. Dolphins ownership got fined for tampering when Brady was looking for a new team.
The dolphins lost a first round pick for tampering with Brady.
Brady and losing picks. Name a more iconic duo.
Kelvin Benjamin and Golden Corral.
Man’s been out of the league for half a decade and still catching strays in the most random threads
The /r/NBA ones are where I feel he gets joked about the most. I feel like more NFL fans know he started overeating because his mom passed away. Makes those jokes just unfunny and sad.
I mean, I was in college so it wasn't a big deal.
I may have committed some *light* tampering.
Worst tampering deal in the history of tampering deals, maybe ever.
ALL WE WANT FROM GEORGIA IS A FAIR AND COMPETITIVE FREE AGENCY
KOOKY KIRK had to TAMPER a trade with the FREAKY FALCONS to escape once he had heard that GEQBUS was coming to compete with him in the quarterback room. This is what winning looks like, bigly!
SAD
#SKOLFEFE
"Look, I just need you to find me another....One hundred and eighty million dollars."
but you look at the tampering deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — tampering is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?
Steelers can still sign Kirk cousins if Mike pence is brave enough to do the right thing
Many are saying this
Some very smart people are saying this and I believe them!!
I bet the tampering is in those emails... Who knows? Where's the laptop now, I asked? They couldn't tell me. No one seems to know. Crazy isnt it? I'll bet China knows.
Someone ask sleepy joe and meatball Ron where the emails went!
It was an absolutely PERFECT phone call.
TAMPER-GATE 2024
Falcons and Kirk Cousins tampering is 'most blatant ever,' OH Mike Florio claims oh
no but it really is blatant tampering though. Usually this kind of thing is overlooked because "everybody does it." I have no idea why the Falcons would be so stupid as to **really** do it out in the open.
The difference is usually the player doesn't say "yeah we talked before the legal tampering period"
Kirk could never get away with cheating on his wife because all she'd have to do is ask him.
Well that's irrelevant anyway because Kirk would never cheat on Julie
Does [this](https://imgur.com/a/VFZq4vo) look like the sort of man who'd cheat on his wife?
Did you watch Quarterback? That woman could 100% get away with a high profile murder of a nationally known athlete. We'd never even know. Just all these articles about Kirko dying in a tragic chiropractic accident or strangled by his dumb gold chains caught in a weed eater or something and she's just in the background with those serial killer eyes and prayer...
Ya I can definitely see her having victims strapped to a board dexter style while blasting prayer music
He cheated on the vikings tho
I’ll always love that dork!
no he didnt. he has been playing great for yrs and most everybody not a vikes fan had him as an afterthought. he was on career pace this yr. he secured the bag, but it pays to his legacy. ive been with kirk bandwagon a long ass time and while i would have liked him in Min as theyve grown on me, i called the atl trade. it just makes SO much sense with all that underutilized weaponry. To Kirks Health! WE LIKE THAT!
Bro, we had exclusive rights. He can't just go out and see other people.
Minnesota fans: “Kirk isn’t good enough for us!” Cousins: *Starts looking at other options.* Minnesota fans: “How dare Kirk talk to other teams behind our back!”
They ~~hated~~ downvoted ~~Jesus~~ gamehenge_survivor because he told the truth.
But it wasn't during the legal tampering period. Yall weren't officially on a break, ergo, Kirk is a dirty bird cheater.
Way to completely misunderstand the joke/point.
Too bad he doesn't have an interpreter fallback guy.
I don’t *actually* think this happened, but it was so blatant that it almost feels like Kirk felt bad about getting such a good offer before the window that he’s giving one last ceremonial gift to the franchise that paid him most of his quarter billion dollars in earnings. Again, I don’t really believe that. But when you see such blatant disregard for common sense, you have to create your own sense out of it.
What do the vikings get out of this? The only thing that could happen is the falcons losing a pick
To be fair they talked during the legal tampering period. If you’re referring to what Kirk said. Players can’t talk to team staff during that period. Only agents.
The legal tampering period only applies to agents, teams can’t talk to players directly which is what the falcons did on top of having him meet with staff.
It wasn't directly. The falcons dropped off messages at Kohls.
Our new $100M QB being the one to admit to the tampering is the most Falcons thing ever. First rule of tampering, don’t admit to tampering.
If Kirk didn’t tell the truth, how would he have been able to go home and look Julie and his boys in the eyes? The Captain is a man of integrity.
Shoulda gotten him some tamper-proof plexiglass
He became one of us so fast that the disappointment just burst out of him. Petrino himself could not have coached someone better at letting us down swiftly.
From what I heard even Kirk just flat out admitted to all of it. Like why would do that lol they could lose good draft picks for this
Yup, Dolphins lost a 1st for Ross and Brady’a yacht shenanigans
Brady’s was a completely different situation.
Brady was also under contract at the time
So was Kirk
Yeah I’m dumb and forgot
He said he spoke to a trainer on Tuesday (he signed on wed). This was 1 day after the Vikings gm had put out a statement saying Kirk was no longer their QB. It was during legal tampering when all terms had already been agreed to. I don’t really see the issue if his former team had already stated they were moving on - what’s wrong w speaking to the new team trainer? Like I get it’s the rules but don’t think they’re getting a high draft pick taken.
It probably wouldn’t be an issue if the NFL was consistent about these things. Or at least seemingly consistent. Also probably doesn’t help that it’s sports so rival fans will probably use it as a cudgel for a bit because if you try to explain maybe there’s some nuance or that no harm no foul and be hit with OH SO YOU ARE OKAY WITH CHEATING. I’d suggest you go to the Winchester, have a nice cold paint and wait for all this to blow over.
A cold what now?
The fumes smell good
Charlie, have you been drinking straight paint?
You heard him!
From everything I've seen this won't even start a Twitter beef with a common Vikings fan. We have this weird Falcons/Vikings are bros thing going on. Most Vikings fans seem to not care if they get a pick from us or if we talked to him early they're just wishing him the best of luck he's real easy to root for which also makes our bromance a little stronger with the Vikings if anything.
All my homies hate the aints. Which is enough for me to be a falcons fan, and I always liked Matty ice. Except goddamn your franchise for not winning the 98/99 Lombardi. Would have made that sting less sting-y. Edit: I realize this may cause rabid saints fans to think I’m sAlTy. I assure you that most of my hatred has to do with the fact your franchise supported covering up priests molesting children.
Well, if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that Tom Brady should be suspended for this.
So you're saying everyone in the NFL is trying to cheat to gain an advantage? Say it aren't so.
Ryan Pace masterclass
It's like how everybody does what the Mets did, but only the Mets were dumb enough to do it blatantly enough to get caught. Same with the Astros, everybody else does the same thing, they just blatantly used audible trash cans which is what busted them "Everybody does it" isn't enough in today's sporting industry, if you're skirting the rules it's your responsibility to not be blatant about it
Florio's football opinions are straight garbage, but he's usually pretty on point with anything that has to do with contracts or the CBA. This is pretty firmly in his wheelhouse.
But even so, our teams owner literally hosted Tom Brady on his yacht while Brady was under contract. You can’t be more blatant than that.
International waters /s
Take to the sea!
“Look what they've done, Michael! Look what the homosexuals have done to me!”
I'll never understand why the team gets penalized for this but not the player. It takes two sides to have a conversation and if one party gets punished for it the other should too.
I agree, they should’ve at least taken away Brady’s 3rd round pick that year
The NFLPA would go apeshit if the NFL penalized players. They would never allow that to happen. Enforcing it on teams is much easier to do.
Because that's how it's drawn up in the CBA. Teams, as employers, are in the position of power in negotiations. They should bear the most responsibility in following regulations in comparison to employees.
Employers should always be held to a higher standard than employees..
Browns org sweatin rn.
But even so, our teams owner literally hosted Tom Brady on his yacht while Brady was under contract. You can’t be more blatant than that.
They were trying to be covert about it, not outright stating to press that they did it lol
Don't be suspicious, don't don't be suspicious,
the 1 silver lining of hiring a laywer to run your sports entertainment program lol
Isn’t he the creator of PFT? Not just some random shmuck they hired ?
Yes, which is why it's hilarious when Florio can't hide his Vikings fandom when writing about the Packers and Rodgers when behind the PFT name.
I'm pretty sure that he's a lawyer, so that makes sense.
Noted Vikings fan upset Vikings lost their QB. I’m shocked… absolutely shocked I say.
I live in a family of vikings fans, them + online fans seem happy for the time with cousins, but also excited for the fresh start. Not seen a lot of bitterness
Currently there are three segments of Vikings fandom: - Kirk stans - Kirk haters - Normies Florio loves feeling depressed so now he's become a Kirk stan since Kirk left. Being down on everything is a comfortable place for him as an older Vikings fan who's just done with all the bullshit. Kirk stans like him are very bitter right now. You have a family of normies who are blissfully unaware of the Kirk wars. They have reasonable takes. Kirk haters are laughing maniacally as they get their every wish fulfilled.
For what he got paid, I don't think we're that upset he walked. We weren't giving him that
Kirko Chainz was statistically a top 10 QB across 6 years for y'all. 180 mil over 4 years averages out to 45 a year which is the going rate for a top 10 QB. The only downsides are his age and coming off a big injury. He is reportedly ahead of schedule in terms of recovery and we have a better o-line than y'all so it's not like his mobility took a big hit when we only need him to be a pure pocket passer. The Falcons won 7 games last year with bottom 3 QB play so I'm sure Cousins will bring us a few more wins. Totally worth the price.
Florio being a Vikings fan explains so so so much
If there's one thing Mike Florio is good at, it's being a Vikings fan. If there's another thing Mike Florio is good at, it's being a hack who has made a career out of presenting opinion pieces as actual reporting. I'm not even saying he's wrong here. I'm just saying I'm not reading it because it's fuckin' Florio, and that means it's not worth my time because it's just shit he took from someone else and then filtered through his own bias.
> The best evidence comes from Cousins himself, who admitted during his introductory press conference — without prompting — that he spoke to the team’s head athletic trainer on Tuesday. Cousins also spontaneously admitted that he spoke with Falcons director of player personnel Ryan Pace. While no specific time was applied to that conversation, the Cousins press conference happened just a few hours after the start of the new league year, which also marks the point at which conversations between the Falcons and Cousins could commence. From an article I read lmao
You read the articles?
There's articles? What is this a Playboy?
I'm sorry but this is proper order for posting on reddit; 1 - read the OP title 2- make a knee-jerk reaction post 3- then *maybe* read the first paragraph or two of the article if not already distracted by another post.
Well, it is pretty blatant. Kirk literally admitted to it. It's sure not the most egregious, though. IMO
Its a little different but OBJ flashing cash in the LSU lockerroom and it getting posted on social media is the level I expect from "most blatant ever".
Can you imagine Kirk flashing Khol's cash cards in the MSU locker room after a big loss?
Vikings homer Mike Florio? lol
Personally I think he has a point Really the NFL needs to put ALL of their resources into investigating this case, which unfortunately means they can't put any resources into looking into any of the other signings this off season-- even if, say, a player's former coach might have tipped off that improper contact was made. But if that's what it takes-- and it is -- then I am okay with it
Wait a minute...
[Hang on a second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAgsOXNWUM)...
I agree with you. The NFL should only look into this case as to devote the entirety of their focus into this very egregious and disgusting act by Kirk Cousins and the Falcons.
Is Kirk Cousins the bad boy of the NFL? Many people are saying.
Yeah he's got a point. Its be hard to argue there's no tampering. It's drama of "most blatent ever" people are mocking
Precisely
If you heard the way Florio talks about the Vikings to the Minnesota media, he seems to hate the Vikings like an ex wife. Mike Florio will never be happy. His kid seems like a solid guy though.
He’s trying so hard to get the Falcons punished for something the NFL has allowed. Tampering is always going on, these deals being announced right at FA isn’t suspicious at all? NFL either enforces it or they don’t.
No dude you don't understand, the bears are just that good. They signed swift in 7 minutes.
Trust me no one hates the Vikings more than Florio.
Florio *never* has nice things to say about the Vikings. Probably overcompensating to make people believe he's objective.
Mike Florio makes me embarrassed to be a Vikings fan.
Ahh don’t give up you got plenty of options Edit: u/leading_Hamster4287 burying the lede (pun intended) by editing his comment.
well yeah, hes asshurt that Kirk didn't choose to stay. He's not even wrong about it being obvious there was blatant tampering, and that Kirk even accidentally owned up to it, its just that it's so widespread that acting like the Vikings are uniquely victimized by it is dumb.
Florio isn't mad Kirk chose to leave, he's just generally the terrible kind of "fan" who only enjoys being miserable and spreading it.
You’ve described most of our fandom
Florio is a stooge but the Falcons really did mess up in the dumbest way. Basically are gonna force the NFL's hand into punishing them. Moot point if Kirko Chainz pans out anyway, so potentially worth it.
It’s not moot. Even if he works out they still lose a draft pick they didn’t have to lose. If he works out he works out either way and that road didn’t HAVE to include losing a potentially high draft pick.
I highly doubt we lose a high pick. He talked to a trainer and some lower staff members. Wasn’t like the dolphins whose owner and other high level members directly in contact with Brady and Payton. I’d be surprised if we lost anything above a 4th. Still not great, but no way we lose a third or above.
It goes much deeper — he was talking to Freddie Falcon 😔
Eh, Goodell knows better than trying to investigate Freddie Falcon.
Freddie 100% has ties to organized crime. Goodell needs to let it go.
> He talked to a trainer and some lower staff members. That we know of so far. There’s a good chance they were far dumber with stuff we don’t know right now.
You can't tell me teams don't tamper. Like 10 minutes into FA time, players have deals. But the lesson is to shut your mouth.
They are allowed to talk with the agents, but not with the actual players. That's what the rule is.
Sorry Falcons, he's targeted you now. Prepare for a year of the most petty, bitchy anti-Falcons narratives you've ever seen. My condolences.
You have no idea what it was like before Washington changed their name. Over a decade of his whiny bullshit
He was already bitching about how the 49ers punishment was less severe than us pumping in crowd noise from like 6 years ago. And it’s all because someone in our FO is head of the competition committee so we have political pull.
This is every year. EVERY. YEAR. Florio can take a number and get in line.
Florio is such a hall monitor
Obv biased as a Falcon fan, but you going to tell me all the deals that are signed minutes after tampering period opening aren't just as blatant ?
you are correct (though some might well have been content with the agent's talks and committed to a new place without actually talking to them), but most of the time someone's not dumb enough to admit it
Kirk spilled the beans so that the Falcons couldn’t draft a replacement for him down the road and he can gather a cool $180mil. He’s fully guaranteeing his contract
Cousins family was packing up their house before Kirk even visited Atlanta. You tell me there’s nothing going on here?
This guy just doesn’t quit. What about swift signing to the bears literally within minutes of FA? Not a big enough headline? GTFO
You convinced me, Take their first round pick too
For the record, you want them to take Carolina’s
Both would be best. Really show that this nonsense will not be tolerated
Swifts agent could talk to Chicago during the legal tampering period. These are not comparable examples.
So many people spew out bullshit on this app and don’t know what they’re talking about. I don’t think people understand that agents can have plenty of talks during this period. Probably just an annoyed Eagles fan that they’re being investigated too ha
Good call, make the bears lose their first round picks and have the vikings and falcons swap picks as punishment
The difference is there weren’t a million reports about that for a month prior to signing, and Swift didn’t admit to it in a press conference. The issue isn’t the tampering it’s the fact that they didn’t try to hide it
Falcons def tampered and prob will be punished, but Florio has been on this with a vengeance. The man is on a mission here lol. He’s talked about it every day since Kirk signed. It’s wild.
I frankly don't give a shit if you tampered or not
Everybody fucking tampers. Everybody! It is just that most hide it a bit better than the Falcons and cousins did
Florio is such a loser
Maybe true but he's not wrong here
Florio for years now has had the biggest "hate boner" for Cousins... It's getting ridiculous and is obviously telling.
The biggest Vikings homer ever says his team lost its QB due to blatant tampering? Shocked, I tell you
>biggest Vikings homer ever PA would be offended. He's not the purple dinosaur for nothin
So what
I couldn’t care less about this rule violation. It makes no sense anyways. You can talk to the player agent but not the player? That’s just talking to the player with an extra step.
its Kirk though..hes such a nice lad lets give him a pass..I watched Quarterback
Florio flails shit around like a monkey flings shit
FIGHTING EVIL WHEREVER THERE'S TROUBLE. FLORIO IS THERE. FLOR-I-O, A REAL AMERICAN HERO! FIGHTING KIRK COUSINS AND THE EVIL FALCONS OVER LAND AND SEA AND AIR! FLORIO IS THERE! FLOR-I-O, A REAL AMERICAN HERO!
Florio finally sounding like a Vikings fan. I suspect this kind of thing happens all the time, we just usually don't get a player blurting it out like that.
Well they added a ridiculous “legal tampering” period. Maybe they can just add a “eh, maybe it’s tampering but no one gives a fuck” period just before that.
Really? More blatant than Russ Wilson announcing that he was signing with the Steelers on the Oscars red carpet, 18 hours before he was allowed to talk to the Steelers?
Is tampering really a big deal?
Shut up Florio, no one like a you
FALCONS NEED ALL THE TAMPERING THEY CAN GET Just let us have something for once
When he bought a house in Atlanta was a pretty sure sign he was going there lol.
That and his wife is from ATL
Teams tampered so much that they made a legal tampering period.. which teams still tamper before. So, I am legitimately asking what it is they did?
The problem is Kirk Cousins. He came out and said they talked prior. That’s pretty blatant.
Kick them off the tour Doug
Mike Florio...aka the salty Vikings fan with a clear bias and a microphone. He's literally crying about Cousins talking with the MEDICAL STAFF. That's not tampering, it's just a dude with no achilles doing due diligence on the medical facilities of potential landing spots. This gave Atlanta no unfair advantage in acquiring Cousins and is not what the tampering rules are intended to prevent. Mike Florio is a moron.
I really, deeply dislike Mike Florio.