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.
Falcons coach Raheem Morris, flashing his trademark, 10,000-watt smile, was waiting, as was GM Terry Fontenot, and much of the Atlanta staff, to welcome their new franchise quarterback.
An hour later, after introducing him to folks around the building, Cousins was reunited with his wife, Julie, who arrived at Falcons headquarters on her own, from her parents’ place in Alpharetta, Ga. She had the couple’s sons, Cooper and Turner, with her in a conference room near Morris’s office—and, as little kids tend to do, they were busy generating general chaos.
