The FINAL Kirk Cousins Saga thread. 5.0

Cowturd :doh:

Cowturd :doh:

I mean isn't that tampering lol

I mean isn't that tampering lol

Yes.

Sign and trade or it is tampering.

until he's gone I wouldn't lol

Good point, premature on my part. I just want it done (and forever hold this against Snyder and Co. like the Haynesworth deal and many other failures).

Oh, no! Not tampering! No NFL team would ever jump the gun on signing a player, would they? Sure they would. Cowherd may well be sniffing a warm trail that normal human senses can't detect.

I dont get Fuller going..too valuable too the secondary..22 yrs old!!..we needed to keep him..i like smith.

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Kirk never wanted to be a Redskin, if he did he would have said that last year and signed a deal, it's not just about the $, he doesn't care for BA, who blatantly called the guy "Kurt" on TV.. It's a joke and I'm glad its over



KC may have soured on the Skins, but it's all on Snyder and Allen, who failed to properly cultivate him from day one, or more likely ignored him as a Shanahan project of no importance.

We seem to have normalized this idea that Cousins didn't really want to be here. He was drafted by us and turned out to be one of our best picks ever given the RG3 bust. It's a debacle that we f'd up the RG pick and a bigger debacle that we f'd up the backup plan. Good teams develop talent and sign them, people like Cousins and Fuller.

It's fine to praise the Smith signing under the circumstances, but the circumstances are that we Skins fans are huddled together under the derailed train doing triage, searching for scraps of food, and hoping that the same engineer who crashed the train gets us back on track and drives us to our destination.

So hooray for Alex Smith. The deal only makes us a tad worse than we were this past season. But in bizzarro Redskins World, really we're much better because Kirk was going to leave anyway and Colt McCoy was going to be our QB. We've not only drunk the koolaid, we're addicted to it.

Meanwhile, the Eagles are in the Super Bowl. Think about that while we debate Alex Smith's cup size.

Winners, losers of the Alex Smith trade: Kirk Cousins benefits - NFL.com (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000913035/article/winners-losers-of-the-alex-smith-trade-kirk-cousins-benefits)

I do, personally. The window for it is only 3 years long, realistically. But I see this:

- Same accuracy, quick release, and ability to read defenses

- Smith is more mobile, throws on the run better. Cousins was improving at this, but Smith almost always leads the NFL in first downs gained via rush from the QB position. He's known for killing you on 3rd and 4, when you defend the play perfectly, but Smith gets away from the rush and scrambles for the 1st.

- Smith has a much, much better turnover rate.

- Smith has a better red zone conversion rate. This may just be a reflection of the offenses they played in. And you have to give Cousins a break for any game where Reed didn't play, because Travis Kelce was healthy most of the time. But still, I think Smith punches it in a tad more often because he can escape the pocket better.

I think we got a touch better at QB. It's just a shame we got worse in the secondary by losing Fuller. Valuable player.

Well said. Maybe Alex Smith will be our version of Tom Brady and still is playing very well by the time he hits 40. We can use the picks in that span to improve the team at our various needs...