Kirk Cousins 24/7 thread

And there's all of these numerous posts of nonsense. I get it too.

OK, let's forget about the posturing on both sides about a long-term deal for Kirk Cousins and try to look at this from a purely business perspective.

If media reports are to be believed, the Redskins would like to get Kirk's signature on a deal structured similarly to the ones signed by Colin Kaepernick and Andy Dalton. Supposedly, the annual salary amount is not a sticking point.

Both Kaep and Dalton are signed for five years and the thing that stands out among their contract terms is that they are both within the bottom three of all NFL QB's in the percentage of their total contract amounts that are guaranteed. Kaep's guarantee is $13M which is 11.4% of his total contract. Dalton is guaranteed $17M which is 17.7% of his total contract. Only Tyrod Taylor has a lower percentage of his total contract guaranteed at 10.6% which is $9M. Another thing that these three contracts have in common is that the guaranteed amount for each of these is approximately one year's worth of salary. That means that these players could be cut today and their teams would owe them next to nothing in salary. By comparison, a typical NFL QB guarantee is about 40% of the total contract amount.

Let's assume that the Redskins would like to sign Kirk to a five year contract at $20M per season, with a total contract amount of $100M. That salary may be fine with Kirk and his agent. But, if the Redskins want to guarantee him a percentage of that contract near the bottom of what his peers are receiving, Kirk's agent would have to be incompetent to let that happen. For example if the Redskins were, in their own minds, generous and offered him a 20% guarantee, then the total amount guaranteed would be $20M. Well, that just doesn't work for Kirk's side because he could receive $24M fully guaranteed just by refusing to sign a long-term deal and accepting the Franchise Tag in 2017.

If, as I suspect, the total amount guaranteed is the hang-up in negotiations, then the Redskins are probably going to need to offer a guarantee closer to 40% to get his signature on a long-term contract.

None of this is about greed on one side or cheapness on the other side. It is about business in the NFL.

It's like hearing about someone's life being hard because his Lamborghini's in the shop.

Well if its your only ride and you got be to work that day. I can see that being a problem.

Who else we gonna get? AJ MCCARON?? No thank u

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Cousins is the Skins QB ..no doubt! However He needs to understand That he has not been done wrong by the Skins. he got paid 20 million dollars this year and will become one of the highest paid QB in the next 2 years. so what is his gripe?? That tone in his voice about not being respected ..give me a break. We have seen what happens when teams mortgage the future on a QB that does not pan out. I agree 100% on what the skins did with the tag last year. do you guys believe that next years offense will have the players that we had the last 2 years? we are going to lose D JAX and maybe more. We have to get a running game to take pressure off cousins..that means O line upgrades..maybe RB. Dak prescott without a running game would not be nearly as good. bottom line is this..

priorities #1 sign Cousins #2 Get much better on the D free agency & draft #3 find Running game ( Need O line upgrades and maybe scheme change) between draft & Free agency we could be looking at 10-12 new players .. A huge factor is Can Doctson be the stud WR , Can Cravens become a Solid DB, can Reed stay healthy , can Trent not get suspended again..a lot of ifs..

I think if you look at the Flacco situation in B-more is where Scott is trying not to be with KC and us. We simply can't over pay for KC and expect to be anything but mediocre for the next 5 years.

The way the Skins offense is built we need a good QB at a good price. We don't need a superstar at a superstar price tag. I think KC is very good but not superstar. Put KC in say Philly his numbers would not be so hot.

What sucks is the laws of supply and demand come into play. the league probably has the right amount of superstar QBs, god knows plenty of bad QB's and very limited amount of middle of the road guys. So you end up paying superstar $$$ to the few middle road guys but by doing so it limits the amount of talent you can put around middle of the road QB and you ended up asking middle of the road guy to be a superstar; which generally ends in a fail.

Basically we are in a tough spot with KC.

Listened to the audio vault w/ Cooley. He basically said that KC was playing scared because of his contract situation and it was his worst game since he became the starter.

I think if you look at the Flacco situation in B-more is where Scott is trying not to be with KC and us. We simply can't over pay for KC and expect to be anything but mediocre for the next 5 years.

The way the Skins offense is built we need a good QB at a good price. We don't need a superstar at a superstar price tag. I think KC is very good but not superstar. Put KC in say Philly his numbers would not be so hot.

What sucks is the laws of supply and demand come into play. the league probably has the right amount of superstar QBs, god knows plenty of bad QB's and very limited amount of middle of the road guys. So you end up paying superstar $$$ to the few middle road guys but by doing so it limits the amount of talent you can put around middle of the road QB and you ended up asking middle of the road guy to be a superstar; which generally ends in a fail. Basically we are in a tough spot with KC.

I'm not really buying this. The cap is going up. If you pay your QB 20-23million a year with a 170 salary cap, how does that put a team in a tough spot?? I just don't see it that way.

Listened to the audio vault w/ Cooley. He basically said that KC was playing scared because of his contract situation and it was his worst game since he became the starter.



I was going to say the same exact thing but I obviously don't have enough credibility to be able to state that.

And that's why I asked- what's Cousins' priority?

And reading more into what Cooley said- I believe that I share his opinions in thinking that Cousins' contract took focus away from winning games and because of this - his priority was his contract over winning. Whether he was consciously doing it or not.