My issue with Cousins was, has been, and still is his would-be effect on the salary cap.

You can toss out that we could have afforded him in the short term all day long and be largely correct.
But if you are one who has championed that signing - you better not be coming around here complaining when we are seriously cap strapped trying to re-sign Ramsey and Ngakoue etc.  Because keeping the young core of this defense would be MUCH more difficult than it already will be carrying Cousins' 84 million fully-guaranteed salary. 
And remember - it would likely be more than that as the Jags would have had to outbid to land Cousins. 

As it turns out - the Jags wouldn't have done much with Cousins anyway with all of the O-Line injuries and the defensive lapses of quality play in 2018. 

So even if I entertain the "win now" possibilities Cousins would have brought compared to Bortles, the 2018 season would have been a failure with either QB and with Cousins we'd just be even more hard-pressed financially to retain talent.

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