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

[Defensewins]

I know hindsight is 20/20 and with the current CBO deal the player contracts game has to be played.
But we grade players by their history of what they do on the field. We have do the same to grade our Front Office.
When you look back at the history of the Kirk Cousins rookie contract and how little we paid him, including his successful 2015 season. In 2015 Kirk was our starter and he earned a measly $660,000. If he was not the lowest paid starter in the NFL in 2015, we certainly got a great deal.
Before the 2015 season instead of signing him to an extention, our FO challenged Cousins and played a BIG poker hand thinking Cousins could be a bluff.
Our FO lost that poker hand with the Cousins. Our FO didn't just lose the poker game, they got schooled.
Before 2016 season, instead of saying we got a great deal 2015 by paying our starting QB $660,000 last year and got a long term contract done, they made him put his livelihood on the line a second season to play on another one year contract. If Cousins had a serious injury during the 2015 or 2016 season, Cousins could have been another RGIII situation who is currently out of football.
Bottom line, Captain Obvious observation, Our FO has not handled this situation well.
To think of what we could have signed Cousins to a long term $11M to $12m per/season contract BEFORE the 2015 season is mind blowing. Especially knowing then we knew the NFL Salary cap was going to skyrocket in the next two years. Bad gamble. We knew other teams valued and wanted Cousins. He was not a complete unknown, but we treated him like one.