Cousins and his agent: 'Cha-ching, bitches'

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I can’t imagine paying +$50m a year for any QB. They need to come out with max % of salary cap contracts. 

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Good for him, I'm all for players getting the bag.  

But is he elite?

I still wouldn't trust him completely when all is on the line if I'm a Cowboys fan. 

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@AGRforever said:
I can’t imagine paying +$50m a year for any QB. They need to come out with max % of salary cap contracts. 

I think % of cap will continue to go up as QBs become more and more essential to a team's success. Way back in the days of Steve Young, his % of cap was 13 and that was considered top end. Now, Mahomes is at 17 and I think a few others will surpass that. $50M would be 20%.

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No Thanks, for a 36-year-old QB coming off a major surgery.

Time to move on.  Clean slate.  Draft QB in first round otherwise the cycle continues of squeezing into the playoff picture for an early embarrassing exit.

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The market for Cousins is going to be more than people think with so many qb desperate teams. And Jefferson has made it perfectly clear what he thinks of Cousins 

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This is why Hall should have been starting 2 weeks ago.  We'd have a better picture of whether he could be something.

I've mostly been on Kirk's side the last 6 years, but no thanks to 36 and coming off an Achilles.  Now it's time to bite the cap bullet and get a rookie QB contract as starter, whether Hall or a '24 draft pick.

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@minny65 said:
No Thanks, for a 36-year-old QB coming off a major surgery.

Time to move on.  Clean slate.  Draft QB in first round otherwise the cycle continues of squeezing into the playoff picture for an early embarrassing exit.

Or back to oblivion. I'm with you, a QB is needed in this Draft. 100%. But man its very dicey. No guarantees for sure, but that doesn't mean you don't take a swing. I hope they make the right call with TQBOTF.

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@StickyBun said:

@minny65 said:
No Thanks, for a 36-year-old QB coming off a major surgery.

Time to move on.  Clean slate.  Draft QB in first round otherwise the cycle continues of squeezing into the playoff picture for an early embarrassing exit.

Or back to oblivion. I'm with you, a QB is needed in this Draft. 100%. But man its very dicey. No guarantees for sure, but that doesn't mean you don't take a swing. I hope they make the right call with TQBOTF.

i dont like losing seasons anymore than the rest, but i think i find the current trend of knowing we are close,  but not  close enough teams that we have been rolling into the seasons with more frustrating.  sure we could find lightning in a bottle as some hope for,  but I would be much happier knowing that we have solid OL and DL, with good players around them, instead of hoping that a high dollar QB can survive the season and get us over the hump.  I just dont think that spending stupid cap % on QB is the best plan for the ultimate success, I know I can be a stuck record on this, but Brady got all those rings because he left some meat on the table for the rest of the roster,  I like Kirk and would love to see what he could do with a better OL,  but anything more than about 20 per year is to much, considering how much we are already carrying from his last deal.  I did a bit of a dive into cap % on the QB and superbowl success a couple years ago and it seemed that 12-14% was where most of the winning teams were at on their QBs.  of course Brady being smart,  and the Chiefs having Mahomes on a rookie deal skewed it a bit,  but there didnt seem to be any indication that paying a QB top tier money was a fiscally sound path to a Lombardi,  IMO teams are to  afraid of not having that top rated guy that they fail to appreciate what you can do with a stellar roster and a decent QB.  I think the Niners are a good example of that currently.  

keep drafting QBs to hopefully always have a decent couple of young ones in the stable on rookie deals until you find your Brady,  and use the savings on studs at other key positions along the OL and DL,  and then make sure you have decent talent and depth across the rest of the roster would be my approach.

did hear an interesting conversation last week somewhere about the WR position becoming the next RB as far as becoming devalued in the NFL,  the logic is that with as much as the league has done to hamper defensive coverage ability,  and as good of depth as teams are finding at the position in later round picks,  why draft 1st round WRs,  and why pay them huge deals?  sure would have to see JJ go,  but you cant be him what the market is likely going to be and still have money left to fix the other areas of need.

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Somehow I see Kirk in Denver next year.