NGT: Is Cousins lying?

for this year and wants to try to make the best of it.

'I hate those douchebags, but I'm stuck'.

is just weird

It seems like Washington doesn't want him, but they keep paying him big money

if he's out in public saying he wants to be somewhere else?

To let him go.

In comment 13392782 Peter from NH (formerly CT) said:

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is just weird It seems like Washington doesn't want him, but they keep paying him big money

They Skins FO has been trying to get Cousins below market value.

The problem is, Cousins has more leverage than any NFL player I have ever seen. The Skins offers the past two years have been about $4 million below market both years (Skins reportedly offered $16 million last offseason and $20 million recently).

Since Cousins hasn't taken the bait, the Skins figure it's better paying big money on a year-to-year basis than starting the process of finding a QB all over again. They are kicking the can down the road.

The only way the Skins win is if Cousins shits the bed this year or suffers a major injury. Something that will lower his market value.

However, they have pissed him off so much that he is gone after 2017. The Skins miscalculated this one by a long shot. Their best option is to trade him now (or even during the season if a team experiences a critical injury at QB), because he is walking after 2017 and DC will have gone through all of this for a 3rd round compensatory pick (basically a 4th round pick, which is when they drafted Cousins to begin with).

Cousins is getting 44 million for 2 years of play and is free next season to sign with whomever he wants.

The Redskins might have to use their #1 on a QB this year and hope he works out.

like a stradavarius . Do you think coming out of Sparta, low-draft choice expectations, an aftethought to RGIII, this guy would have even considered the possibility that he would get 40 million guaranteed for 2 seasons? It's amazing .

It's very hard to find a good QB. They found one and now they pissed him off. Unless those idiots trade him he will be on the market next year. Watch what kind of contract he get then.
I hope to God we keep these idiots in our division.

If the Skins tag him again next year, they'll have to pay him $35 mill. That ain't happening. And Cousins would be crazy to sign an extension unless D.C. Throws crazy money at him. He'll be able to decide where he wants to play.

and offering him some ridiculous contract, if only to offset all the other bad news they've had this offseason.

It's very hard to find a good QB. They found one and now they pissed him off. Unless those idiots trade him he will be on the market next year. Watch what kind of contract he get then.
I hope to God we keep these idiots in our division.

Why believe the story the he wants out? At this point, I'd believe Snyder leaked lies about his own mother.

Didnt ask for a trade. I am sure his agent did it for him so technically hes not lying.

Would be awesome if Osweiler is somehow the starting QB for the skins. Please God...

to discuss it and here we are. Seems like an adult approach contrary to some of the stuff in this thread. Not outrageous to seek out how you factor into the plans of the team and whether he should be planning for something else?