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Kirk Cousins would be more than a stop gap. Smith maybe but not Cousins. I'd still rather sign him no matter how much money it is over possibly drafting another J.P. Losman or E.J Manuel

I almost feel like this franchise has been losing on purpose for the last 17 years. There is just no other way around it. It is impossible to miss the playoffs for 17 straight seasons. Now it is going on 18. We have done the impossible. There is no way that one particular team could possibly be so bad at everything for nearly 20 years. Not drafting right, bad coaching hires, bad coaching decisions, constantly finding ways to lose games in the closing minutes. We have even changed ownership and it's still no different. Year after year, regime after regime, bad draft after bad draft, always finding ways to lose games that we have no business losing, there is just no other way to explain this to me. I think this franchise loves losing and making fools out of their fans and watching us all act like the sky is falling. Call me crazy, I'd like to think this is not the case but I just can't look past it anymore and until they show otherwise that is exactly what I will keep thinking.

Again though, if we miss in the draft on a QB then we will set the franchise back another 5 years. Do you really want to take that chance?

You won't have to pay him that much money. He would only make that much money by being on the franchise tag for a 3rd straight year, otherwise we could get him for between $20-$25 million a season. I wouldn't call him a little above average either. He's a fairly good QB if you ask me

The problem with this though, is if you miss in the draft then you set this team back another 5 years. With our track record of drafting the past 17 years we will most likely end up drafting the wrong guy. Cousins easily has another 10 years ahead of him. It would be the same as drafting our own guy except we would be paying him a lot more money up front

I don't want to waste another 5 years waiting to see if a drafted QB is going to work out again. Lets just go for the proven guy. Go get Kirk Cousins in the offseason and focus the draft on other needs

What happened to Zay Jones?

I was wondering the same thing. You can tell this team and especially the defense played with so much energy and emotion and gave it their all on every play. For whatever reason, they have been lazy, played like they havent cared and have shown no energy or passion like they did before. It is very baffling. I have started wondering if McDermott has all of a sudden said or done something that has ticked the players off in some way. The missed tackles are the real baffling thing. They seemed to have no problem tackling the first seven games

I personally think the defense was playing better prior to the last two games. We weren't missing tackles before and now we are. We seemed to always be in the right position and now we have been out of place. If we had been bad at tackling all year then I would say that's how we really are.

The line had one extremely bad game which was against the Jets last week. Every other game they have been pretty decent and I wouldn't even say they were an issue yesterday. The lack of a number 2 RB I'll give you but he should not be giving him carries on on 2nd and long. Or when we are down by 21 points. That is just being clueless in my opinion QB I'll also give you. Tyrod is bad and doesn't know how to audible I would say Dennison is probably 2nd on the list of offensive problems. The horrendous play calling in situations where he shouldn't be calling them is mind boggling.

Also another thing to think about is, how many times have we still been running the ball when we're down by a bunch of points? Yesterday we were still running the ball when we were down 24-3 pinned back on our own 10 yard line. To say that it's not the system and not blame Dennison is ridiculous.

I'm sorry we run A LOT on 1st and second down. You also have to think, how many times of the throws that are called on 1st and 2nd do you see a screen to Shady right down the line of scrimmage. That's basically the same thing as a run play. Why do you think we have so many 2nd and 12's, 2nd and 14's and all those long second and longs constantly? It's because we usually either run on first down and get stuffed for either no gain or a loss or we throw a straight line screen to Shady out of the backfield. Then on those second and longs, how many times have we seen them call a run play to Tolbert, only to get stuffed and end in 3rd and 13. I can recall quite a few times this season where we ran it with Tolbert right up the middle on 1st and 2nd down and basically waste two plays. Every week I can sit at home and know exactly what plays we are going to run on 1st and 2nd down from my couch and majority of the time I am right. If I know that, you better believe the opposing defense does to. The offense is predictable plain and simple

Look how quickly he runs the no huddle as well. Every time Tyrod is in this situation he takes 30 seconds to get up to the line and run the next play

I believe it is partly the system. I will admit Tyrod was awful yesterday but you can't tell me that it makes sense for Dennison to be calling 2nd and 15 run plays especially to Mike Tolbert. It also seems that we run on 1st and 2nd down all the time. The offense is extremely predictable. In some ways it is the system

We traded Dareus right before the Raiders game. Didn't seem to affect them then

I did find it interesting that Peterman ran the no huddle very efficiently. He would complete a pass and get them right back up to the line within 15 seconds. It takes Tyrod 30 seconds to do that. I guess he really is bad. I've stuck up for him for a long time but I'm done with that today

I get what you're saying but he can't possibly think that running the ball on second and long especially to Tolbert is a good idea. He can't possibly be that bad to not be able to see that the box is being stacked and that our offense is predictable enough to not change the play

Is it possible that he is being told not to audible? I just can't understand. I find it hard to believe that when a run play gets called in for Tolbert on 2nd and 15 that he isn't thinking about changing the play. This offense is way to predictable. When you see 8 or 9 in the box don't run it up the middle. Change the play

He's 9 games in. I'm not judging Beane for at least another year or two

Because he is only 9 games in and building towards long term

I would actually say that Cousins and Luck are similar really.

It's hard to say, Darnold hasn't taken an NFL snap yet. If you compare when Luck was in college to Darnold in college I think anyone would have taken Luck. I can't really compare Darnold to Tyrod Taylor to be honest because he has no NFL experience. Darnold could be way better than Luck when he gets to the NFL. Luck's pro career isn't great. He's not an Aaron Rodgers type QB. It's pretty clear Jordy Nelson ain't much of anything without him. Rodgers can take a team of mediocre WRs and still be great. Look at Drew Brees, he threw to Devery Henderson, Marques Colston and a whole cast of mediocre talent and still threw for 5000 yard seasons. Luck isn't that QB in my opinion

You have to have some pieces but none of those WRs would have had the careers they had without Peyton. Luck has good enough talent around him. He isn't the once in a generation talent he was claimed to be, not even close. He struggles against good defenses and is a turnover machine. He's a good QB but he isn't fantastic. Certainly not worth giving up the farm for especially with a major injury like he has.

Is T.Y Hilton Marvin Harrison? No. Is Luck's offensive line as good as Peyton's was? No. However, I can say even with Marvin Harrison or Reggie Wayne who Luck actually did play with, that it really wouldn't make much of a difference for him. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Luck go against top defenses and lay an egg. I know because I've had him in fantasy football quite a few times. He struggles against good defenses and gets a ton of garbage time yards. Peyton struggled very rarely. It almost didn't matter who he played against. I won't say Luck is a bad QB or he's not that good but I will say that he is overrated because he was deemed a once in every 10 to 15 year player coming out of college but he certainly has not lived up to that hype in my mind

I didn't say Peyton had no one, I said he makes the players around him better. I find it hard to believe Harrison's career is what it is without arguably a top 3 all time QB throwing him the ball. Was he that great his first two years before Peyton got there? No. He was decent but didn't actually explode until Peyton got there.