The FINAL Kirk Cousins Saga thread. 5.0

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

That is the key assumption in all of this. It is very much within the realm of possibility that Denver, or other teams, could decide that they like Cousins but don't love him, so to speak.

Meaning that if Washington wants to force a 3rd rounder and a player as compensation, the Broncos could very well say nah you know what, we're good. We'll pursue another player as a bridge and draft somebody to groom.

In this thought exercise we're assuming there's a major market for Cousins. We'll find out just how major.

I'd argue myself that he's not worth $27M per season, let alone worth $27M plus a trade package. We'll see.

Exactly, it's hard to see Denver specifically trading for KC with the possibility of Foles, the 3 Vikings qbs, and the draft. I think it's MUCH more likely that Denver trades for Nick Foles (for example) and gives up their 2nd round pick. Philly gains cap space. Denver can sign Foles to an Alex Smith type deal, taking this years cap hit at around 10M, and still cut Talib, leaving them with a +25M cap space.

The only team with enough cap space to make the sign and trade remotely plausible is the Jets. (Cleveland too, but KC is not signing up for Cleveland)