The FINAL Kirk Cousins Saga thread. 5.0

[metalskins]

Originally Posted by Giantone

I am surprised how many of you are backing the front office in this. After what the Skins did to him, he has played this perfectly.

Go back in time and ask a lot of us if Kirk Cousins should've been signed to a LTD after 2015, and most of us would have said, absolutely, YES! Ask the talking heads and other sports fans from around the league during that point and they would've said, "Kirk hasn't beaten a winning team, hasn't won a playoff game, Kirk Cousins is a stat whore, Cousins is trash."

Go back to after the 2016 season, and a lot of us were saying, "Yes, we didn't make the playoffs but there's two winning seasons in a row, and Kirk proved that 2015 wasn't a fluke for him. So, he deserves to be paid!" However, also remember that during the off season, Kirk's agent said they were not interested in any contract negotiations until Cousins is tagged. That should've been the first sign that Cousins didn't want to be in Washington, and only a tremendous, outlandish contract would keep him here. I also remember hearing little comments (that I honestly didn't believe but now, maybe there was some truth to it) about how Cousins asked for a trade and about how he wasn't signing with Washington while Bruce Allen was in town. I have no idea if any of that was true, but seeing how everything has transpired, I'm not sure I wouldn't believe any of that stuff to be the case.

Having said that, in retrospect, the only chance the Redskins really had of signing Kirk Cousins was back in 2015. His bet on himself in 2016 was to prove he's marketable enough to leave town and make bank. The team did the best thing they could do in the present, which is let Cousins walk and sign Alex Smith. I support them 100% in this venture. Yes, they should've signed him after 2015, because honestly, they had no chance after 2016.