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March 3, 2017 at 8:57 pm #65805
znModerator3 team trade reportedly in the works; would send Kirk Cousins to the @49ers, Tony Romo to the @Redskins, and picks to the @dallasCowboys
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March 3, 2017 at 9:44 pm #65807
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March 4, 2017 at 9:01 pm #65875znModeratorLa Canfora: Too Much To Overcome For 49ers To Trade For Cousins
Jason La Canfora
The San Francisco 49ers do not have a quarterback. Colin Kaepernick has opted out of his contract, and Kyle Shanahan has to find a replacement. He can look to the draft. He can look for a trade. In a perfect world, he would acquire Kirk Cousins.
That, however, presents many challenges.
“Look, Kyle Shanahan really, really likes Cousins,” CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora said on CBS Sports Radio’s Gio and Jones. “He and his daddy drafted him, and they quickly felt like he was a better option than RG3. They championed him, they continued to watch him closely and they believe he’s an upper-echelon quarterback. Kyle Shanahan would have no problem paying Kirk Cousins what he’s going to get, which is going to be close to $25 million a year.
“The problem for them is they have so many holes,” La Canfora continued. “The offensive line, I suppose, is a discernible strength. There isn’t another position group on that roster that is. They have so much they need to address, and they know that just having a quarterback isn’t going to be a solution where we maybe have the worst roster in the league.”
The 49ers have fallen off the proverbial cliff in recent years. After going 36-11-1 and reaching at least the NFC Championship every season from 2011-13, the 49ers have gone from 8-8 to 5-11 to 2-14 and now have their fourth head coach in as many seasons.
There are a lot of holes to plug, and quarterback is certainly one of them. In fact, it might be the biggest hole to plug. But is it worth plugging that hole when, if you do, you won’t be able to plug any others?
“We’re picking really, really high this year, and we’ll probably be picking really high at least next year,” La Canfora said, explaining the 49ers’ mindset. “Do we really want to give up two first-round picks for the quarterback and then pay the quarterback $25 million a year and still have literally nobody on offense except for maybe a running back to help him out? And we still need to completely rebuild our secondary. And we probably still need multiple linebackers, even though two or three years ago we would have said linebacker is the biggest strength on the roster.
“Boy, there’s so much to overcome,” La Canfora continued. “I just don’t now that at the end of the day, for how far they are from a personnel standpoint, that trading three or four draft picks and having the highest-paid quarterback in the league makes sense to them.”
March 8, 2017 at 1:33 am #65984znModeratorReport suggests that Kirk Cousins will likely end up as the 49ers quarterback
The Kirk Cousins drama is far from over. Even though the Redskins have placed the franchise tag on Cousins , effectively locking him onto the roster for the 2017 season, there’s still drama that can be played out .
For instance — as I recently played out in my 2017 NFL Mock Draft — a trade could happen. And according to Mike Silver of the NFL Network, that’s exactly what will ultimately go down.
Basically, the Redskins are a mess and aren’t that high on Cousins right now, while the 49ers are interested in letting Kyle Shanahan “get his kind of quarterback that can run his kind of system.”
Cousins’ unhappiness in Washington, where the Redskins refuse to commit to him as the long-term answer, only exacerbates the situation.
“However, when it comes to the quarterback position, I believe Kirk Cousins wants to be in San Francisco, I believe that Kyle Shanahan, who has been very, very high on Kirk Cousins since he was the offensive coordinator in Washington when they drafted Cousins, I believe that marriage wants to happen on both ends,” Silver explained.
“It’s an expensive marriage and we’ll see in terms of trade compensation that would take to get him, maybe something that happens in a year. But if I had to make a guess one way or another at this early stage, I would say it’s more likely than not that Kirk Cousins ends up being the 49ers quarterback.”
It’s not really that far-fetched to imagine a scenario where the 49ers land Cousins. They have the No. 2 overall pick in the draft, while the Redskins have the No. 17 overall pick.
Flip those two selections (Washington gets No. 2, while San Francisco gets No. 17), give San Francisco Cousins and mix in a couple more picks to even things out and you have the parameters of a deal in place pretty easily.
Giving up Cousins for a 15-pick difference is crazy, up until you consider how much he commands immediately. The Redskins owe him $24 million for the 2017 season and either have to give him a 44 percent raise in 2018 or sign him to a long-term deal.
Cousins has the Redskins over a barrel when it comes to said deal, because of how they’ve handled negotiations up until now.
If he doesn’t want to stay there, this might be his final season, and the Redskins are going to get a third-round compensatory pick for him. If they don’t believe in him as the long-term quarterback, the best move is to let him go for a high draft pick and try to start figuring out an alternate way to operate the offense and handle the position.
A trade is the best way to do that. -
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