What makes Cousins such an upgrade that it is worth risking paying him 150 mil for 5 years and then never reaching the championship game again in that time? Imagine the blowback if you cut a QB who nearly took you to the super bowl and his replacement is the highest paid player in the NFL and doesn’t at least deliver a super bowl victory. It has been proven that average QBs win Super Bowls. Eli Manning. Peyton Manning in his final season, Flacco, Dilfer just to name a few that come to mind. Anyway, advanced metrics say that Cousins is no better than Bortles anyway.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb

There was a much better case for bringing in Alex Smith before he was traded to Washington. Now that Cousins is all that’s left teams will be overpaying. Nothing screams sure fire can’t miss upgrade that guarantees a super bowl with Cousins. That is why management will not risk cutting a QB that brought us minutes from a super bowl to bring him in.

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