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

1 hour left for the hopeful like the one I still try to be

If it is going to take 24M to sign him to a LTD and the tag is 24M, Im really starting to think the smart move is to not sign him to a LTD and let this year play out. See how he does without McVay and Jackson/Garcon.

Even if he plays like he has the last 2 years, his value as a 30 year old would stay in the 24M per range.

My head is spinning right the fuck off

My pets heads are falling off...

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If it is going to take 24M to sign him to a LTD and the tag is 24M, Im really starting to think the smart move is to not sign him to a LTD and let this year play out. See how he does without McVay and Jackson/Garcon.

Even if he plays like he has the last 2 years, his value as a 30 year old would stay in the 24M per range.

Agreed, assuming no deal, next year his position levels out with no FT numbers past next year. He likely will remain a top 11 qb, and will be paid by some team - maybe us - like where his value is at. (imo) Right now he wants to be paid long term at a point way above where his real value is.

1st team to ever franchise a QB twice. % of that being surprising. 0%!!

The clown car continues on down the road.

1st team to ever franchise a QB twice. % of that being surprising. 0%!!

The clown car continues on down the road.

I'll take our situation right now over many teams in the league.

Strong reasoning to not pay a guy you already paid $19m last year and are on the hook for $24m this? Not sure I'm seeing it.

Exactly, you already given him 45 million basically and could have been signed 2 years ago to a LT deal with this as the guaranteed money. Now, it's more like 55-70mil guaranteed to get it done.

Exactly, you already given him 45 million basically and could have been signed 2 years ago to a LT deal with this as the guaranteed money. Now, it's more like 55-70mil guaranteed to get it done.

Yes, but half of us were on board with the Redskins not signing Kirk Cousins to a LTD right after 2015. I'm pretty sure if we went back into those threads, more than half of us would have said the 'skins would have been crazy to sign Cousins to a huge deal after a half of a good 2015 campaign.

It's just what it is. Cousins bet on himself. The Redskins wanted to make sure he's worth the money. Cousins played pretty well in 2016, the 'skins are splitting hairs.

He's got about 12 more minutes to sign.

So Cousins was given an offer similar to Derek Carr?

Redskins president Bruce Allen's statement to the media regarding QB Kirk Cousins: (http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0678693417479315213-4)

Granted this is coming from the team, but I like that they talk about guaranteed money (which matters).

I'll take our situation right now over many teams in the league.

I'm not even mad about this as a stand alone event, but its just part of the overall accumulative clusterfuck that always seems to float over this franchise.