We have been here before Redskins fans. It’s nothing we aren’t used to, especially if you’ve been a fan since after our last Super Bowl in 1992 or when Dan Snyder purchased the team in 1999 which I’m more familiar with. I’m going to start this off as simple as you can make it, and with a bang that won’t be most popular among DC media members and many Redskins fans on social media.

We need to let Kirk Cousins go. Plain and simple. The money he will be demanding is far too much and will set us back even more regardless of how you feel. That 33 million FT-TT or (according to SpoTrac) 27.6 mil contract salary, that is looming in the distance is what he’s going to want in money essentially. He’s not going to take anything less than the tag if that’s what the market is saying he is worth. Everybody’s favorite saying for Kirk in defending him not being a Tier 1 QB is “you don’t need a great quarterback to win you a Super Bowl!” Exactly, so then why pay him tier 1 elite money? I understand what the market has him set at, let someone else pay him that. Like I’ve said before, the overall message of sports is to get better and be the best, wouldn’t overpaying in reality set you back? There’s many options we can take with a tag and trade, with teams chomping at the bit for him (they will be,trust me.) there’s no reason why we don’t capitalize on the future with either draft picks or a potential deal with another quarterback and a pick (Jimmy G?). If you can get a serviceable quarterback to win you a Super Bowl, like everyone says, then we can do just that and save millions of dollars and assess it to bigger needs that we have. You can throw the stats out at me, but ultimately Cousins is now a 3 year starter with 6 years in the league, analysts say year 3 is crucial in development, well he’s shown the same flaws as he always has. We can discuss that another time but back to statistics, you can throw them all at me, they still show we can’t make the playoffs based on our QB play, by elevating talent around him. You need all these pieces than he’s successful, what QB can’t be successful when everything is great around him? We lose it’s an excuse for Kirk, we win, it’s Kirk. He’s 12-0, the team is 5-7. No. He can’t elevate the team to big time potential, yet to throw 30 TD passes in a season, we are about to see a ND Bison throw for 40 in his 2nd year.

As a team, without injuries I see us in the 9 to 10 win category but there is still holes we definitely need to address this offseason. Defensive line has been a thorn in our side for years. We need to spend some money and get a big-time talent on that D line (since we run 3-4, a NT) to gel with Jon Allen who I believe will be big time. Our run defense continuously is awful, now mind you we did lose Mase which was a big loss, but you can tell the huge skill drop-off between a ZB-MF duo and ZB-Vigil/Spaight/Compton, and a Jon Allen to Stacy McGee, T.McClain. Add a big piece to that defensive line and I think potentially that change will make us big time contenders in the near future.

Resign Zach Brown, Mason Foster, let everyone else walk. D-Hall is probably done after the year. Lauvao never has been a solid guard, Pryor/Grant, just no. Phil Taylor, Trent Murphy & Junior Galette if they can give us team-friendly deals I wouldn’t mind keeping for rotation, Phil Taylor due to injury never got to see what he can bring.

Bring a receiver that can help out Josh Doctson. This narrative that the Redskins receivers are inconsistent is true, all but Josh Doctson. He is one of the least targeted #1 receivers (due to Kirk spreading the ball around) but has more touchdown catches than Julio Jones, Doug Baldwin, Adam Thielen, T.Y. Hilton, Keenan Allen, Larry-Legend, Mike Evans, Tyreek Hill among other WR talent. Sammy Watkins, Allen Robinson (yes,coming off injury) and Jarvis Landry (can run sets with Crowder and Landry) would be circled 1,000 times on my board. Docton is a 6’2 206 lb (needs to get the weight up a little bit.) 4.5 receiver who can jump out of the gym. Get a guy with some speed to offset that on the outside and we can be cooking with a lot of gas. Imagine if a D Jack was still here, oh baby.

Last, as we all know the same story for the Redskins every season. We have high ups and very low downs. Once again we won’t finish with 10 wins, I believe it’s now 23 out of the last 26 that will happen. As you look at the head coach, you can say we are unprepared at times and there’s times we are out-coached, I would evaluate the position and see where we stand, I’m not saying we should fire anybody, but you need to look at what we have done thus far in the Gruden era. Nobody needs to be complacent, we are a NFL team, regardless of how consistently bad we are. As a front office we are as horrible as you can be. I know people give Jerry Jones much for being a “bad owner” I seriously believe we have the worst owner and probably the most “un-seasoned” if you will on the sport of football in him and Bruce Allen. The redskins will NEVER win anything as long as Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen run this franchise. I stopped getting mad at Redskins games after last seasons final Giants game, I realize now after 19 long years this team is what it is and it hasn’t changed in my lifetime and until we get new ownership and FO heads we will always be this way. The Cowboys really did whip our tails like we got a C- on our report cards but it’s still forever #HTTR. l