Handled poorly by WAS. This is shaping to be a lost season for them in that there is really no future for Cousins in DC. Why would they "wow" him with an offer for '18 when they were incapable of "wowing" him with (what would have ended up to be a lower offer) now or in '16?
He is so in the drivers seat that he can patiently wait and see what happens. Now how about this..... Is WAS betting on him playing poorly in '17 since Garcon and Jackson are gone and then can half-ass justify to the fan-base that he is not worth what he was asking and is asking as a PR lever to get rid of him? Don't forget Snyder, Allen et. al. run plays directly from the "bad PR moves" playbook so this could be their MO.
And...... Doug Williams - newly minted Senior VP of Player Personnel already pre-loaded his support for the #3 QB Nate Sudfeld.....
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Sudfeld’s one of my favorites,” Williams told ESPN 980’s Doc Walker, via Dan Steinberg of
The Washington Post. “You know, he was one of the guys, when we drafted him, when we sat in the room [and] we talked about drafting a quarterback, I was a Sudfeld guy. You know, none of [the prospects] took snaps up under the center; they all stood back in the shotgun. He was at Indiana, but when you watched him and the guys at a couple more schools, there was something about him that you liked. And I think he’s learned how to take the snap from under center; he gets the ball out of his hands.”
The Redskins selected Sudfeld in the sixth round of the 2016 draft. Even though Sudfeld didn’t play last season, Williams, the team’s senior vice president of player personnel, said Sudfeld has much higher value than where he was drafted.
“The first couple weeks here, I think [Coach Jay Gruden] wanted to run him off,” Williams said. “He looked so bad Jay wanted to run him off. No, no, but the kid has worked; he’s learned. And I’ll tell you what, out of the quarterbacks that came out this year, if he was coming out this year and looked like he looked [last week], he would be up there anywhere from the second to first round. The kid has improved.”
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So, a bad start for Cousins - McCoy finishes that game then turn to Sudfeld? I am not betting against it, that is for certain. Week 5 is their BYE week......
Look ,I have been a Redskins fan since I was little - nothing surprises me anymore with this scurrilous bunch.