He played well enough to win the title game if the defense didn't collapse in key situations in the 2nd half and I was impressed with his poise and demeanor in the game and some of the plays he made as well. My question is if Blake had been given the ball late in the 4th 16 times this year with each game on the line, how many of them would he have driven us down the field and won? That's a tough question to answer, but my guess is he'd had done that less than half of the time. You're not likely to find a guy that does that 90% of the time, but you should keep looking at your options if you don't think you have a guy that can do it more often than not.

Fortunately for him and for us he wasn't asked to do that all that often this year because the defense performed so well and was the reason we got the lead and kept it in a lot of games. I'm not saying he can't become that guy that drives us down the field for a score late to win a game, but I'm not certain at this point and if he can't be that guy more often than not you don't stop your search for that guy just because you had a winning season. If the front office believes in him or believes there isn't a clear immediate upgrade, he'll be back.

My thing is right now I believe there may be at least one clear immediate upgrade available in Cousins if he makes it to free agency and that's a rarity in free agency at the QB position. When I get some time, I'm going to go back and watch the condensed version of Redskins games on gamepass that I missed this season to see if that opinion still holds. However, what I've seen from him over the past few years I've been more impressed with than what I've seen from Bortles so far. And statistically, he's head and shoulders better.

This team is built to win next season and for at least several more after that. If you can upgrade any position, you do it, especially the QB. If Cousins comes available, you have to take a long hard look at him and make a football decision, not an emotional, "that's my quarterback" one.

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