Cousins Saga 4.0. Is he done in DC?

[VTSkins1961]

I would only bring back cousins if he doesn't try to break the bank. We should take a page from the patriots. when a player ties to make it about themselves and not the team they trade them for whatever they can get. There is no "I" in "team".....

[mooby]

Originally Posted by VTSkins1961

I would only bring back cousins if he doesn't try to break the bank. We should take a page from the patriots. when a player ties to make it about themselves and not the team they trade them for whatever they can get. There is no "I" in "team".....

Yes, because the Patriots are the rule, not the exception. Look I agree with you that we shouldn't break the bank, but do you realize how much cap space we have? The money he has asked for isn't a whole lot more than what we're already paying him! We are literally giving him 24 million of our cap space this year, a long term deal will definitely not be much more than that. Look at the percentage of cap space we have open, it's definitely attainable. But for 2 years in a row they have tried to lowball him. If we do it again this year he walks.

[VTSkins1961]

Originally Posted by mooby

Yes, because the Patriots are the rule, not the exception. Look I agree with you that we shouldn't break the bank, but do you realize how much cap space we have? The money he has asked for isn't a whole lot more than what we're already paying him! We are literally giving him 24 million of our cap space this year, a long term deal will definitely not be much more than that. Look at the percentage of cap space we have open, it's definitely attainable. But for 2 years in a row they have tried to lowball him. If we do it again this year he walks.

Not saying they didn't low ball him and I'm also not blaming Cousins either for not resigning. Cousins is a little above average - not a superstar but can manage a game and not lose for you if he has the right pieces around him (and a healthy o-line). Reality is he should have been resigned when Scot wanted to resign him but Allen and Snyder didn't want to do it then. This mess is all on them. Now they need to make an fair offer he can't refuse and won't hinder the team from added pieces to achieve the goal we all want - Lombardi Trophy....

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by VTSkins1961

I would only bring back cousins if he doesn't try to break the bank. We should take a page from the patriots. when a player ties to make it about themselves and not the team they trade them for whatever they can get. There is no "I" in "team".....

We currently have 4.1M in extra cap space.

Next year we will have 56.5M in cap space. Only player needing re-signing is Zach Brown (3-6M) and Cousins (26M)

24M = roughly the amount of cap we would have to work with AFTER resigning Brown and Cousins.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/washington-redskins/

** numbers per overthecap

(very little dead money next year, culliver, paea, d jax, bruton etc come off the books)

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

We currently have 4.1M in extra cap space.

Next year we will have 56.5M in cap space. Only player needing re-signing is Zach Brown (3-6M) and Cousins (26M)

24M = roughly the amount of cap we would have to work with AFTER resigning Brown and Cousins.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/washington-redskins/

** numbers per overthecap

(very little dead money next year, culliver, paea, d jax, bruton etc come off the books)

That's a pretty optimistic view. Here's a list of the key guys who are not on the team in 2018:

- Cousins and Zach Brown, as you note
- Bashaud Breeland
- Shawn Lauvao
- Niles Paul
- Trent Murphy
- Will Compton and Mason Foster
- Junior Galette
- Spencer Long
- Ryan Grant
- Dustin Hopkins

Guys also not on the team in 2018. We won't miss these guys but it's still a body you have to replace.

- DeAngelo Hall
- Terrelle Pryor

You can argue that some on this list should be kept, others should be let go. But you can't argue that all should be let go. We'll use up most of our available cap space retaining many of our own guys on this list. And there aren't very many good candidates to cut and save some money. Su'a Cravens saves you $500K. Ziggy Hood saves you $1.2M. But you probably want to keep him.

We're looking at a draft-focused offseason. Maybe one significant free agent acquisition.