Prowl33 wrote:A lot of you guys solutions are the exact reason we are in the dumpster year after year. QB has a couple bad games and you want to pour on gasoline and light a match. Say you do that, then what, colt mccoy? He won't do any better, Sudfeld? Alright kid but considering him would be a joke. Force a 1st round pick into our system next year? How many times has that worked for us? Get a vet? Sorry but that has failed us every time too.
He deserves criticism sure, but you're telling me you would take Jay cutler, Brock osweiler, Blake bottles, case keenum, fitzpatrick, Gabbert... and likely a few others I would argue too. Qbs are a rare commodity, and ours at worst is servicable, at best is pretty good. If we want to talk QB, let's get the team to the point where it's a good QB away from making a super bowl run first... and we definitely aren't there yet.
What I am telling you (and everyone else), in the interest of avoiding strawman arguments, is that Kirk Cousins' ceiling is limited. We've seen the best he will ever have to offer. We may have to live with that because, as you've pointed out, there are a lot of marginal starting quarterbacks in the league. To get the opportunity to draft a good one a team has to either really suck or trade the farm. We've already gone the "trade the farm" route and the team won't suck enough with Cousins running the show and with McCloughan's personnel talent to get a top three draft pick.
We're paying Cousins $19.95MM this season to find out if he's worth paying for the long haul and what he's worth paying for the long haul. Thus far he's worth about $5MM a season less than he thinks he's worth.