Cousins 3.0, he's going to sign the franchise tag

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

You got injury risk and a performance risk, which to me was a slight drop off from 2015. You keep rolling the dice, you could crap out. Just saying.

Kirk has 43 million reasons ($$) not to worry about that. He is gambling with house money.

[over the mountain]

Im a big Cousins fan and want him signed to a LTD .... but dang, paying 80-100M guaranteed and breaking the record books for the 10th or 11th best QB in the league just seems odd. I understand leverage, market demand, future salary cap inflation etc but this still feels like things are going off the rails.

After listening to pundits, posters here I think the BA statement was more pettiness. I understand the need to get your version out there first to set the narrative, but the very real by product of CYA is turning a portion of your fan base against your starting QB.

[Chico23231]

Kirk Cousins: Needed more time to make long-term decision with team | ProFootballTalk

Im calling bullshit on Kurt's statement...

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Kirk Cousins: Needed more time to make long-term decision with team | ProFootballTalk

Im calling bullshit on Kurt's statement...

It was definitely a 'let me keep my options open' kind of move, no matter how he frames it.

Whether that's because he wants out, or because he wants Allen out, or because he wants to test the waters with Gruden as playcaller first, or because anything...

He didn't want to get married at this point. If he doesn't want out, he at least needs some convincing that DC is the place for him.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Kirk Cousins: Needed more time to make long-term decision with team | ProFootballTalk

Im calling bullshit on Kurt's statement...

He acknowledged that he didn't ever send a counter offer. IMO that leaves the team with no options but to wait till next year.

[Schneed10]

I think he just wants a team to commit to him and show him the love. If that's the Redskins then he'll happily take it. But that would take a major shift in behavior from the front office.

But Matty's right, what's done is done and all we can do now is focus on this season. I like how the defense is improved and I could see a good season coming as long as the offense figures out how to keep it rolling with the changes at receiver. I like our chances for a good year, actually. 16 games (plus playoffs?) is an eternity in the NFL, it's plenty of time things to turn positively between the Skins and Cousins. It's also plenty of time for things to sour, but I'm a glass half full guy.

Better running game, better defensive front, better red zone play? 10-6 is quite possible in my mind.

[Schneed10]

JP Finlay on Twitter:

Kirk Cousins again says it's not about $$. "If it was the case we would have sent a counter offer that was extremely high." Interesting.

[Schneed10]

More from JP:

Kirk Cousins on #Redskins offer: "If the best we can get is a 2 year deal I might as well just keep playing on one year deals"

Cousins on talks w #Redskins "Everything is trending in the right direction." Dude is pure class.

Cousins, “We all as players would love to see more guarantees...We'll never find out if a player doesn’t try."

So it's the guaranteed money. He wants to take it way higher, obvious he thinks the low guarantees favor NFL teams. It's not that he wants to be the highest paid, it's that he wants more safety.

[metalskins]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

More from JP:







So it's the guaranteed money. He wants to take it way higher, obvious he thinks the low guarantees favor NFL teams. It's not that he wants to be the highest paid, it's that he wants more safety.

Welp, he already has about $43M in guarantees. This could be a move that chances the course of history in terms of how contracts are negotiated in the NFL.

[Chico23231]

if you want to be here, you tell your agent to send a counter offer and make it happen. ESPECIALLY if it "aint about money."

[metalskins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

if you want to be here, you tell your agent to send a counter offer and make it happen. ESPECIALLY if it "aint about money."

Believe me, it's always about money. Even when it's not.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by metalskins

Believe me, it's always about money. Even when it's not.

When he says it's not about the money, he means it's not about the total contract value or the average $ per year. To him, it's about the guaranteed safety net. He wants much more guaranteed.

[metalskins]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

When he says it's not about the money, he means it's not about the total contract value or the average $ per year. To him, it's about the guaranteed safety net. He wants much more guaranteed.

Understood. Cousins is not a dumb guy. We've seen players in the past sign mega deals that, in the end, they might have received a quarter of that contract, either because of injury, failure to reach incentives, or whatever.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

When he says it's not about the money, he means it's not about the total contract value or the average $ per year. To him, it's about the guaranteed safety net. He wants much more guaranteed.

sorry - $73Mill guaranteed for injury. No counter offer. He wanted to get to the open market. He said that in February, and it has not changed.

I firmly believe there wasn't a "reasonable" offer the Skins could have made that he would have signed.

[metalskins]

Well, all I can say is, I hope you guys didn't throw away your RGIII jerseys! j/k