If you buy fire insurance, and the house does not burn down over the entire time you insure it - did you 'waste' your money?
It's a weird take that getting a young QB in case an old recently injured QB gets injured again is a mistake.
The SB take is even weirder. No player the Falcons get could have helped the Falcons win a SB, because Cousins doesn't even win PLAYOFF games, much less SBs.
The Cousins move was to sell tickets to a fanbase that was getting antsy after that last season of godawful QB offense. They almost had to do it.
But it wasn't a SB move. Hell, some of those Vikings teams that Cousins was on before were much better than this Falcons team. Not sure how anyone expects an older, more brittle Cousins with less weapons and a worse defense was going to march this team to a SB.
Sure, Atlanta MIGHT win the division. But they would still have Cousins. Which means they lose to whatever wildcard they face. Just like that Vikings team that won the division, came in with a gaudy record, and lost in the wildcard game.
So yeah, you keep rolling the die on QBs until you get a good one. Penix seemed worth the risk.