(01-23-2018, 12:34 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote: To my previous colleges, Cousins is a good qb and would most likely be an upgrade. The issue is what you will have to pay Cousins. Blake’s 19 million puts him around 15-17 highest paid qb. Cousins will be the highest paid qb in the offseason (either Franchised or free agent). Blake was the 11 ranked passer this league. Cousins was 8th I beleive. Is Cousins worth 11 million more? Statistically you get 400 more passing yards 3 more completion percentage points and 6 more tds same amount of ints. This is also with better receiver options to throw to. Cousins is also 28-29. Blake is 24.

Cousins to me isn’t enough of an upgrade to essential destroy your roster 2 years from now. If he can’t carry a roster to the playoffs now why would he do it once he’s taking up 30% of our salary cap and we can’t feild a team.

It's more than the statistics.  My point in my prior post was about his potential for game winning drives when you absolutely need the plays.  Cousins had 4 this year and has had multiple in each season during his tenure as full time starter.  Blake had 1 (it was the Chargers game if you even want to count that as a game winning drive) and there were several opportunities where he was given the opportunity to win the game this year and couldn't get it done.  Maybe it's not all on him in certain games, but that's why you look at the larger sample of games because you can't always say it's not on him.

However, I just became aware of the fact that Bortles' 5th year option fully guarantees on March 14th just prior to free agency opening at 4:00 pm that day.  Teams are allowed to talk to players a couple of days ahead of that deadline, but the Jags would be taking an awful risk in deciding to cut Bortles with the belief that they would be signing Cousins immediately.  They'd have to have a verbal agreement already in place and have the written one in front of a free agent Cousins to sign right at 4:00 pm and at 3:59 would have just announced they'd just cut Bortles.  If Cousins balked we'd be screwed as Bortles would probably feel pretty slighted to come back and sign here, but who knows.  I previously believed we had until the start of the season to make the decision on Bortles, but I'm not sure where I got that from now.

Based on those timelines, I think Bortles will probably be here under the option next year regardless if Cousins comes available and that we'll draft a guy to replace Henne and push Bortles in rounds 1-3.

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