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Washington Will Have Until July 17 To Work Out Long Term Deal With QB Cousins


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Washington Will Have Until July 17 To Work Out Long Term Deal With QB Kirk Cousins.....

 

If the Skins don't work out a deal long term by the 17th of this month this will be the last year Cousins will be in Washington and i guarantee if they let him go it will be the biggest mistake owner Dan Snyder has made since becoming owner and he has made a lot of mistakes but this would be the biggest.

 

Why you ask?

 

2016 categories and how Cousins fared.....

 

– 4,917 yards were 3rd most in the NFL.
– 406 completions was the 3rd most in the NFL.
– 307.3 Yards/game was the 3rd most in the NFL.
– 97.2 Quarterback rating was the 7th best

 

Also he was 1st in the NFL completing 70% of his passes in 2015.

 

In 2015/2016 Cousins stats were 785 of 1150 good for 68.5% completion rate,9083 yards, 54TD and 23 INT, 99.4 QB rating.

 

 

Those are top 10 caliber numbers for a QB.

 

Simply put if Washington had any sense they would've locked up Cousins a long time ago but they kept gambling and Cousins kept making plays.

 

Now IF the Skins decide not to sign him to a long term deal the San Francisco 49ers have expressed interest in giving Cousins a deal and the feeling is mutual as Cousins wants to play with Kyle Shanahan who coached him in Washington.

 

As for the 49ers i think they are already beginning to build an imposing defense there if they get their hands on Cousins it will immediately catapult the 49ers into competing for the NFC WEST division where Seattle and Arizona are currently top dogs.

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For me, those numbers tell a different story then I see when watching him play.   I just don't see a highest paid QB in the NFL caliber guy when I see Cousins on the field although maybe it is just me and I am way off. 

 

Does he deserve a contract extension from the Redskins, probably so.  Is he a guy you want to commit a huge piece of your salary cap to for the long term, I am not so sure. 

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Bruce Allen and owner Dan Snyder are both dumbasses. Read below.

 

 

As team president of the Washington Redskins, it would stand to reason that Bruce Allen would know the name of the team’s starting quarterback.

 

However, in reading a statement to announce they had not reached an agreement with Kirk Cousins on a long-term contract ahead of Monday’s franchise tag deadline, Allen appeared to mispronounce Cousins’ first name on multiple occasions. Allen seemingly called him “Kurt” five separate times during the reading of the statement.

 

Was Allen trying to pull a version of the “cat game” from Super Troopers? Does he think his quarterback is actually named Kurt? Is he just unable to pronounce Kirk?

 

A team spokesman told John Keim of ESPN.com that Allen “sounded that way because of the Redskins president’s accent.”

 

The statement itself was already a weak effort to turn public sentiment against Cousins and put sparkles on a contract offer that Cousins had no business entertaining. If Allen wasn’t a victim of his accent and was instead trying to be cute regarding his pronunciation of Cousins’ name, it’s another poor look for a franchise that seems to specialize in them.

 

Either way, Washington might want to find a different way to conduct their business right about meow.

 

A year ago, Washington wasn’t inclined to guarantee at signing the amount that quarterback Kirk Cousins would have gotten under the franchise tag in 2016 and 2017. This year, that attitude changed; the back end of the deal was the problem.

 

Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the team’s offer that included more than $53 million guaranteed at signing covered the $23.94 million franchise tag in 2017 and the $28.72 million transition tag in 2018, and then some (by a little). The problem is that the team wanted four more non-guaranteed years after that.

 

In other words, the team wanted a two-year commitment and then a series of four one-year options. Cousins wasn’t inclined to commit to a deal that committed him (but not the team) from 2019 through 2022.

 

And that’s a smart move. If we’ve learned one thing in recent years, thanks to the growth in the cap and the decision of arguably the best quarterback in the game to sign from 2013 through 2019 at 2013 dollars (Aaron Rodgers), it’s that long-term deals don’t work for the players, beyond the first couple of years.

 

Last year, by not guaranteeing Cousins the 2016 and 2017 franchise tags at signing, Washington gambled and lost. This year, Cousins is gambling on the notion that he’ll at least play well enough to get the team to give him at least the transition tag next year. (If they give him the franchise tag again, he will have made $58.41 million over the same two-year window, $5 million more than the team offered.)

 

But how much of a gamble is it, really? Cousins threw for more than 4,900 yards in 2016. No matter what he does this year, someone will be interested in paying him significant money (remember, Mike Glennon is getting $16 million this year from the Bears) in March, even if Cousins regresses. (Indeed, if he regresses it will be easy to blame it at least in part on the team’s stubborn refusal to give him a real commitment.)

 

Bottom line: Cousins finally has shown all players the value of going year to year. Since teams essentially want to do that with every deal after the first two or three years of a long-term contract, why shouldn’t players subject to the franchise tag opt for one year at a time? The rules of the tag favor them, and the long-term deals usually don’t.

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Cousins is as good as gone after this season. I've said before he will be 49ers bound.

 

How does new 49ers QB Brian Hoyer feel about it?

 

Brian Hoyer has one job this season and that's to help the San Francisco 49ers get back to being a contender. So he's not going to worry about things he can't control.

 

There have been reports the 49ers will pursue Kirk Cousins after the 2017 season as he did not sign a long-term deal with the Washington Redskins. Hoyer knows about the reports about Cousins, but he's not concerned.

 

"This is 2017," Hoyer said on ESPN. "Kirk's going to be in Washington and I'm going to be in San Francisco. You can control what you can control and go out there and do the best that you can. Don't worry about things you can't control because it doesn't go you any good."

 

The one thing Hoyer did say is he's glad Cousins is getting attention because both played at Michigan State.

 

"It's good to see to Spartans up there," Hoyer said. "I think that's the main thing."

 

Cousins was Hoyer's backup QB at Michigan State in 2008 and took over as starting QB when Hoyer moved on to the NFL. Hoyer's career has been more rocky than Cousins' as he has bounced around the NFL since 2009 after signing with the Patriots as an undrafted free agent. Cousins was drafted in the fourth round in 2012 and was named to the Pro Bowl in 2016.

 

So it's clear this year is very vital for Hoyer because he wants to stay in San Francisco and be the staring QB for the 49ers for a long time. But even if he plays well, it's very likely the 49ers will go after Cousins because of his relationship with head coach Kyle Shanahan.

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Remember how i pointed out that team president Bruce Allen was envious of former GM Scot McCloughan?  This was because

McCloughan was known as a great scout and draft guy and was helping the Skins improve and Allen for some reason didn't like McCloughan so he cooked up the alcohol story and some other shit including the Cousins deal to get Snyder to fire McCloughan which to most Redskins fans and onlookers like myself looked very petty and plain wrong.

 

Obviously many others feel the same way. Poor Skins fans are stuck with a man who is known widely as one of the worst owners in the NFL.

 

Look below......

 

Michael Jenkins‏Verified account @JenksCSN 16h16 hours ago

The Redskins framed Scot McCloughan as an alcoholic. Now they're framing Kirk Cousins as greedy. No wonder Kirk won't sign long-term.

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It is hard to find good QB's especially ones that are young and put up top five numbers. The Skins should've signed Cousins to a long term deal way before now. When Cousins leaves the fans are gonna backlash against Snyder. There will be plenty of pissed fans especialy when the Skins have to draft another QB and start all over.

 

Cousins is one of the first QB ever to get franchised twice in a row. It never happens because most teams know whether or not the QB is worthy way beforehand. Not Snyder though :doh

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