Higga wrote:TGW wrote:Higga wrote:I think Cousins at least deserves a full 16 game season. After that, we'll re evaluate.
IMO Cousins doesn't "deserve" anything. Maybe if he showed that he was progressing in the right direction, then the case could be made. He really hasn't done anything to deserve a shot other than being an alternative to a guy the coach doesn't like. He's already been benched for being terrible...so to say he deserves 16 games is just not reasonable IMO.
Well, my reasoning is:
1. He's shown enough good that I'd like to see if he can improve over the course of a season. Its not like he's been John Beck awful all the time. The offense was at its most productive with Cousins starting last year. And its hard to really develop as a young QB when you get a couple starts here, then a few starts a year later. No real consistency there.
2. We know what we have in the other QBs. RG3 simply can not run an NFL offense and McCoy has no upside, he's a guaranteed 5-11/6-10 type starter. With Cousins there might be a chance(small chance, maybe less than 5%)that he could pan out to be a real good QB. So lets give him a season and see if by season's end he shows improvement.
Its very likely though that the QB of the future isn't on the roster right now, although I hope McLoughan takes a Ravens/Steelers like approach and continues to build up the rest of the team first instead of trying to go out of your way to get the golden goose QB.
Yeah, I think both of us are saying - We don't know if he's the answer, and we know he has to improve, but he's clearly the only one of the 3 that has a chance to be the Skins QB of the future, so we should give him every opportunity to prove himself.
We want to have the OPTION of not having to use next year's first rounder on a QB - and taking the years to develop the new QB - because there really is no consensus top QB like Luck or Cam Newton or Rodgers. I'd rather use the pick to find the next AJ Green or Julio Jones.