(02-01-2018, 08:01 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-01-2018, 07:53 PM)Eric1 Wrote: ...

Ramsey is going to be the highest paid CB in 2 years. Yannick Ngakoue is going to be a highly paid Pass Rusher in 2 years. If Ngakoue has another season next year like this season, or only continues to improve in his 3rd year, he's going to break the bank just like Ramsey. Myles Jack is in that same class and he's going to need to be paid also. Nothing like those two will be, but he isn't going to get peanuts.

Then to add onto that, we can only hope Allen Robinson will take a team friendly deal right now to stay here, but if he hits the market hes gone. You waste of that money on Cousins and you have to lock up Robinson right now, because you simply wont be able to in 1-2 years.

Then you have to let Fowler walk for sure and you have to cut the big guys on the DL. Campbell, Malik, Dareus etc etc etc. it goes on and on throughout the entire team. It's a never ending cycle and you see it all over the league 1-2 years after a team breaks the bank on a QB.

Paying Cousins that kind of money is only going to hurt this team in the long run...

While I don't have quite as high of an opinion on Blake as you do, I feel largely the same way regarding our options. 

I really hope they draft a QB before the third round though. I do think this team can "win now" with Bortles despite his issues if they get A-Rob back, add some better run blockers to the line, and get an upgraded receiving threat at TE.

I just don't want to see complacency at the QB position as it's still a gamble moving forward with Bortles. If Bortles takes the next step and we are starting the twos in week seventeen, they can showcase the rookie for tradebait. 

Not much to lose and much to gain by drafting the next QB instead of overpaying one.

I was a fan of drafting a QB somewhere in the 2nd-4th rounds early on in this season and I'm still a fan of it. I mean heck, if somebody happens to fall into the late 1st that the team flat out loves and believes in, take em.

Don't get me wrong, I've said that Bortles can be upgraded, but you simply don't run off a QB when you have nothing behind him. Cousins isn't that much better to be worth that kind of money he'll get and it's not even 100% he'd come here anyways.

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