Who is Kirk Cousins?

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Originally Posted by Chico23231

Projected qb franchise tag is over 25 million. Poor choice IMO, real poor choice

I completely agree, but I was responding to KI's thought that if Kirk plays real well from here on in, his price might get up there pretty high.

I'm just saying if he's suddenly super consistent and clutch from here on in, then we will have made the playoffs, and suddenly we'll be looking at him like a potential franchise guy. At that point, the possibility of the franchise or transition tag enters your mind.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves, and it's just a best possible scenario. The likelihood is that he'll have a few more clunkers the rest of the way.

The tendency is for people to take his last game and project that forward. He was dynamite against Tampa, but there's nothing in his history to suggest he can do that 9 games in a row. That's a lofty leap of faith.

If he keeps up his current pattern of good game/bad game, he'll be worth around $8M per season. You'd never tag him at that point. You'd simply place your value on him, and if someone offers to overpay then you grin & bear it with Colt McCoy as your bridge to a new starter. That possibility terrifies people, but it would be better than drastically overpaying for another Mark Sanchez.

McCloughan will do the right thing.