The FINAL Kirk Cousins Saga thread. 5.0

If tagged he would sign in a heartbeat. By not signing he can’t be traded, possibly interested teams would have to move on with either finding a QB in free agency or the draft. And why wouldn’t you lock yourself into $34M vs 0?

By not signing, he becomes a free agent when the new league year starts on March 14th. Kirk holds all cards here.

I don't think so as soon as they apply the FT assuming it is exclusive they have a hard deadline in July to which they can work out an extension. Basically he would be off the market and it doesn't matter the FT is binding so he either agrees to it or sits out he doesn't have to sign anything and there is nothing he can do about it.

By not signing, he becomes a free agent when the new league year starts on March 14th. Kirk holds all cards here.


pretty sure it doesn’t work like that

By not signing, he becomes a free agent when the new league year starts on March 14th. Kirk holds all cards here.No. If the redskins apply the tag he would not be a free agent. The Skins would have his rights for the year, but until he signs it the skins could rescind it. Once he signs it becomes an exclusive tag as Mattys earlier link showed, so that means he can only negotiate with the Redskins. The transition tag obviously has a different path.

The Redskins could apply the tag and see what Cousins does, but that money counts against the salary cap, and I don't believe the Redskins would want to purposely handicap themselves. If there was no deal with Alex Smith, then I felt it was a strong possibility, but now that a deal has been agreed upon in principle, I don't even think there's a 20% chance of a tag and trade happening. However, I've been wrong once or twice in my life, so we'll see what happens. Personally, I'm just fine letting him walk and getting a 3rd rounder in 2019.

pretty sure it doesn’t work like that

You're right it does not. That's an embarrassingly poor display of knowledge by sandtrap. Franchise tag means you can't negotiate with anybody except the team that applies it, unless that team gives you permission to talk with somebody.

God I CANT WAIT for this to be over

You're right it does not. That's an embarrassingly poor display of knowledge by sandtrap. Franchise tag means you can't negotiate with anybody except the team that applies it, unless that team gives you permission to talk with somebody.

Exclusive Franchise Tag means that. Non-Exclusive grants the right to negotiate with other teams. The Redskins cannot apply the non-exclusive this year.

Well, let’s see how badly Snyder and Allen screw this up. Let’s rate this deal according to “Albert Haynesworths”. Like as of right now I think this deal is about 80% as bad as the Albert Haynesworth deal, so I rate it 0.8 Haynesworths. What do you guys think, And how good or bad do you think the cousins situation will end up for the redskins?

Exclusive Franchise Tag means that. Non-Exclusive grants the right to negotiate with other teams. The Redskins cannot apply the non-exclusive this year.

Correct. I was speaking of the tag the Redskins could use on Cousins, not of the one they cannot.