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Originally Posted by diehardskin2982
LOL, don't be so upset if Cousins leaves. The Redskins have to work with the bed that they've made for themselves. They did not sign Kirk Last year, and he now wants a top dollar contract.
Redskins brass don't want to pay him a top dollar contract. The best option for the Redskins is to non-exclusively tag Cousins. This works for two reasons... First, if a team signs him to an offer, that team creates a market rate for us to match and keep Kirk long term. Two, if we let him go, we get 2 likely high first round picks.
Lastly if no one bites on Cousins, it takes away some of his leverage and allows us to negotiate a long term deal before the deadline period.
High level negotiations are not for the faint of heart.
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Probably at least a dozen teams are going to go after Cousins because literally hardly anybody in the NFL believes that Cousin is going to be a Redskin next season. It shouldn't even be a question at this point "will we let Kirk walk", because that answer should be a resounding "YES". The question now is what are we going to want in compensation for him.
Read a good article and will try and find source to post it, explaining that the Cousins situation is likely sealing the fate of Bruce Allen and Scott M, who are accused of "not doing enough" to try and sway Dan Snyder's opinion on Cousins. Snyder basically does not want him here and isn't really in the mood yet to hear arguments on keeping him. The article concluded that should the Skins do well in finding a stop gap solution at QB while building a solid defense, then Scott and company will be praised as heros, but if they fall on their face when their stopgap fails, you are likely seeing the end of Gruden and his staff, as well as Allen and Scott, which is ironic, because it was Dan that didn't want Cousins anyway, but as always the coaches and staff will bear the blame for his dumb decisions.
Really hard at times to be a fan as long as Snyder owns this team. The truth is he just sucks any fiber of hope from any situation. Here we are on the cusp of signing our first franchise QB since probably Theismann and Snyder is trying his best to F it up.