Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank says he doesn't believe his organization committed tampering during its pursuit of new QB Kirk Cousins amid an NFL investigation.
Kirk Cousins joins Scott Van Pelt to discuss his decision to join the Falcons as well as how his recovery from Achilles surgery is going. Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein."The tampering deal, we obviously don't believe we tampered and we shared all the information with the league," Blank said at the NFL's annual meeting Monday.
The Falcons officially signed Cousins to a four-year deal worth up to $180 million on the first day of official free agency, two days after his agent, Mike McCartney, announced on social media on March 11 that Cousins and Atlanta had agreed to terms.During Cousins' opening news conference, he indicated he had spoken with the team's head trainer before 4 p.m. on March 13, when the new league year was set to open.
"When you get here and you look around and you think, boy, there's great people here," Cousins said on March 13."And it's not just the football team. I mean, I'm looking at the support staff, meeting, calling yesterday, calling our head athletic trainer and talking to our head of PR, I'm thinking we've got good people here.A day after Cousins' news conference, a league source told ESPN the NFL was looking into the matter.
Quarterback had been the priority of Atlanta's offseason and in Cousins, they believe they landed a solution to their position, which the club had been looking for since trading"Obviously our football folks felt strongly. Our fans I definitely think would concur with that," Blank said Monday.
"He has all the intangibles, not just the tangibles, but the intangibles. ... He's in house, ready to go to work, he is working and see how it unfolds."
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