ddaryl

I don't see much in him to have faith. On the trash heap no, but IMHO he won't do much in the NFL

well it looks like this is moot. Did not see the Alex Smith trade coming especially this early into the offseason

not a placeholder. A top 10 QB for one more year then you have no cap hit in 2019 from it. Its a clean break... Or they can toss a rookie in there right off the bat which I don't see as a smart move. Which brings us back to Doh a dear a female dear...... IMO Washington will do every single possible thing they can do to get a return for Cousins whether that be one more season or assets in return.. There will be suitors for Cousins services, and there will be teams who will find it worth it to part with a pick or 2 to get Cousins and not let him get to free agency. I don't think any team will agree to 2 1st rd picks but a 1st rd pick and a day 3 pick might be enough and yes the team that is willing to make that move will be negotiating a deal that will be very kind to Cousins. I do not see a top 10 QB just being released to free agency under any circumstance. This a is a QB desperate league and Cousins is a known commodity that is a lot less risky than the majority of QB's offered in the draft or FA. Someone will step up and make an offer...

Not out of the realm of possibility considering the leverage point of view.. It will be interesting.. I still think Washington is willing to franchise and keep him if they can't get something in return for him. Even if they are able to land Josh Allen or another QB at 13 they would still most likely want a vet for at least another to groom a drafted QB If they let cousins go then they are scrambling around for a vet IMO

OK... all I was saying is Wa will do whatever they can to get something for him before they let him walk....

yeah that sounds plausible...

No they aren't going down unless reveneues go down conisderably... But I still think Cousins would do less than $30 mil per season on a longterm deal with guarentees.

they'll do it again before they let him walk for nothing is what I've been saying. No way any team in th eNFL lets a valuable asset like a top 10 QB just walk without doing whatever you can to get some compensation. Maybe it backfires but Wa can tag , sign ,and trade for less than the 2 1sts if they just tag him and someone signs him.

I've seen no indication that Wa doesn't want him. Even if they don't they are not going to just walk away they'll tag him and then at the last possible minute if no one steps up then maybe they let him walk but its not happening on day 1 of FA. They will play their cards till the very end IMO....

they don't have any choice. You can not leave a valuable asset like Cousins walk for nothing... They at the very minimum need to work out a sign and trade deal even if its just for a 2nd rd pick do to costs

Then it becmoes a more difficult deal to sign and trade or even want ot franchise..... I doubt any team pays Cousing $30 mil a season... here are the top QBs before last season... I think he will fall in the range of the top 5.. Which is still spendy but going rate TJoe Flacco, Baltimore, $24.55 million Carson Palmer, Arizona, $24.125 million Kirk Cousins, Washington, $23.943 million Matt Ryan, Atlanta, $23.75 million Matthew Stafford, Detroit, $22 million Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, $20.3 million Cam Newton, Carolina, $20.166 million Philip Rivers, Los Angeles Chargers, $20 million Eli Manning, N.Y. Giants, $19.7 million Andrew Luck, Indianapolis, $19.4 million Drew Brees, New Orleans, $19 million Russell Wilson, Seattle, $18.8 million Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh, $18.2 million

He would get More than $34 million in a signing bonus if we was FA or was traded .... Again he is better than most of the secondary QB's available in this draft. He is a better than average known commodity at QB

sure because if you tag and trade him the team can negotiate a cap friendly deal and abosrb the $34 mill ++ into a signing bonus.. I think 1 1st rd pick and some change would do it if Wa smply wants to move on and get something in return.. Not ot spendy and Cousins is better than all the secondary QB options IMO

Then it comes full circle to what i was saying.. Cousins is not leaving Washington for nothing.. Cousins will not be a FA IMO. A sign and trade deal or franchised.. or franchised till a sign and trade deal can be worked out

OK then they go 7-9 .. Washngton is not giving up on a very functional underrated QB for nothing... I just don't see that. 15 + teams in this league would look at Cousins as an upgrade IMO. Cousins is a top 10 QB in this league or at least has been a consistent top 10 the last 3 seasons. Where is Washington going ot find a consistent top 10 QB to replace him

My bad they will use the franchise tag not the transition tag... There is no way Washington lets Cousins just walk.. IMO

With the possible suitors and QB desperate teams out there they won't let him walk. Cousins is the surest QB to be had this year. $34 million for 1 more year with no cap hit if he walks next year means Washngton IMO will hold onto him with the transitiion tag or work out a sign and trade deal. No way they let Kirk just walk.. Thats a very useable asset whether they keep him trade him or transitions him

Cousins will at least be tagged by Wa so we will have to give up some picks no matter what..

Yeah caught that.. Just saying in regards to the contract hit it leaves in the wake. How do you avoid that especially with a player like Woods.. You can't without losing face, which may cost us more in the future as other players take notice, so we live with the cap hit

got to side with Tuberculosis on this one. No reason to drag a 5 year old kid into any of this. Most definitely crossed a line

Took us long enough but we found that common ground.. From the Bills perspective, how do you look a model soldier in the eye and tell them sorry no guarentees for you... it was a gamble / calculated risk... but Woods deserved his guarentees.. He was a good soldier

I agree its pointless.. don't know a single person / lawyer who would sacrifice themselves without injury protection... or why anyone feels the Bills did something bad here.

I disagree.. I think they very much are... you get injured and can no longer play, your contract is signed and you get paid. medical retirment is no different than unable to continue to play catostrophic injury

The contrats are guarenteed because they are written that way... A medical retirement is the same as being injured an unable to play. A decision to just no longer play the game is a different story... This is where you are confused.. Medical Retirement is different than normal retirement.

Small minority may have issues with the protest. The majority of issues stems from a generation of people no longer using traditional TV outlets to get their sports news etc... As for a private business it still belongs under the umbrella of the constitution of the United States, so unless we're going to allow each corproation to become its own Country they don't have a pot to piss in this regards. You are correct they can terminate an employee or bench that player.. but in the end that player will stil be paid via what they are owed in contract and that player would become a FA. I would think the majority of fans would be upset if their team was benched for practicing their rights as Ameircans. Now if people are really upset then they are not making that big of a deal about it because overall stadiums are still full and message boards are still busy