We're in an awful spot. I can appreciate that you and others don't like Cousins, but I think he is a top five QB on the right team. So where you see a barely above average QB, and too much cap investment, I see 6 years of guaranteed stability at the position passing us by.
But it's not so much missing out on Cousins that bothers me, it's that the rest of the options in our situation are so far away. We have less cap room, less draft capital, and less room to mess up than any other team looking for a QB. I'm sitting over here trying to talk myself into AJ McCarron, a guy who I had zero interest in coming out of the draft, with three starts, and two one legged QBs in Bradford and Bridgewater, hoping we can somehow get lucky and they remain healthy despite all of the evidence being to the contrary.
I'm seeing our only options in the draft either being the 5th-6th QB off the board, which hasn't exactly hit in the past 20 years, or a wild trade up with every bit of remaining draft capital we have for next year disappearing in a year where we have only 13 players under contract.
Or, of course, trade a bunch of picks and pay Nick Foles, who was almost out of football recently, is a complete journeyman, and if I had mentioned the idea in week 13 of last year, would have been laughed out of a room for. Cool.
I'm not blaming Keim or anyone for this, it's just the crap cards that we were dealt, but I have very little optimism about next year and the upcoming years where we stand right now.
