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

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This is a mess. BUT - you got to wonder how much of this is true, and how much is media frenzy. The reporters all love Scott and defend him, and seems like a smear job on Allen (to match the smear job on Scott). I have no idea what's going on anymore - but who leaked the alcohol story? It may not have been the Redskins brass or Allen, maybe another lower level shmuck who let the alcohol story getting out. Who knows, who cares. I just want to move on.

Regardless:
1) I hope Cousins signs long-term. Have NO idea of recent reports are true about Allen / not signing long-term, etc. But he seems like a straightforward guy with a good relationship with Gruden. I wouldn't put it past him to sign if the numbers are right.

2) If Cousins leaves, screw him -- Colt is not horrible, and could be serviceable until we find an answer at QB -- Gruden is a QB friendly coach. We still have a good team core -- good O-line, elite TE (Reed, Davis), and good WR (Crowder, ?Pryor, ?Doctson). If defense improves a little, we're at least an average team, with some luck we're in the playoffs even without Cousins.


FA moves so far are fine, not sure if that was already planned with Scott's input or Allen is at helm, but who cares about Scott, he's gone. Hate to see his personal issues all over the news, but that's his problem now.

Let's move on.