Cousins to start 2015 Season

[RedskinJake]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Lots of thoughts going through my head here.

It's really hard to believe that the team truly thinks Griffin is the 2nd best QB on the team. This could be:

- They're saying he's the 2nd team guy in an attempt to keep trade value higher

- Snyder and Allen could be forcing a compromise (God I hope not), saying fine you can start Cousins but no way we're deactivating Griffin

- They're concerned about a legal grievance from the player's union, in the event they deactivate Griffin each week, could the union argue that they're not being fair in ranking him as the #3 QB and doing it solely to prevent themselves from exposure to $16M of injury risk

I hope it's the first one. This whole thing, ugh.

The talk of a possible trade for Chase Daniel gives me hope that this is just posturing for some sort of trade value but I think Daniels contract is up after 2015 and his cap number is a bit less than RG3 at 4.8 vs 6.8 mil so I think there are some moving pieces like getting a new contract for Daniel and possibly paying $1-2mil for RG3's 2015 salary. Is Chase Daniel worth the give up? I love the kid but I don't know that he is. We'll see how things play out but I sincerely hope that Snyder isn't forcing Gruden and Scot to keep him on the 53 man roster for 2015. If so, this soap opera can't end and we can't move on to play focused football.