That's interesting about Kaep even being snubbed in a history photo by the 49ers and their "apology". But I agree with you guys, he'd need to get signed as a backup, and he would be a lightening rod, a distraction. Granted, it's a distraction you know is coming, but it may be so much so that it overcomes focus on the team. This is why, if he plays anywhere, it will be in the forthcoming AAF, even though it looks fairly small, or XFL in 2019, which looks bigger...if it happens.
https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2018/05/30/is-the-alliance-of-american-football-really-an-option-for-colin-kaepernick/
In the past couple months Skip Bayless has been ripping on Kirk Cousins, calling him the most overpaid player in the NFL. Really? Skip complains that Kirk "pads his stats", but with some searching I could only find one game where his numbers were askew to the positive, a wildcard playoff loss to the Packers two seasons back, where they were continually behind and threw all the time when the Packers played fairly loose, but mostly kept them out of the end zone. Maybe Skip's been sitting in his own overpaid ESPN office for too long, because the obvious most overpaid player in the NFL over the past several years is Eli Manning, who is in year 3 of a 4 year $84m deal, making $22m this year, and $23 next year. In fact, his career earnings will total over $250m when he's done. And how well has Eli played? Well, he did win two SB MVP awards...in games where the Giant defense held Tom Brady and the Patriots to 17, and 14 points. His numbers in both games were marginally lower than Tom Brady's even. But let's look at his record since then, the last six seasons, a total of 40 wins, and 54 losses. He's thrown 134 TD's, to 88 Interceptions. His passer rating has been between 69 and 93.
In that same time frame, Cousins has been 29-27-1 as a starter. He has thrown 110 TD's, and just 57 Ints (less action his first 3 seasons). His passer rating was a low of 58 in his second season, but in the last four years has been between 93, and 105.1, which happens to be this season. Cousins also throws the ball deeper down the field,with more pass attempts, and more completions over 20 and over 40 yards. Cousins currently makes $24m a year, which rises to $27 next season, and $29 in 2020. He made $23m a year his last two seasons in Washington,
because they refused to sign him, or trade him, and just franchise tagged him.
Finally, this season Cousins ranks 7th in passer rating (105.1) and QBR 77.1.
Eli ranks 20th in passer rating (90.9), and 25th in QBR at 40.7.
Arguably the most important QBR stat is what ESPN calls "points added", which is a number showing what was expected of the QB, and how much better he performed than that, which is adjusted each week before each game. This is somewhat akin to WAR in MLB sabermetrics. Cousins is at 17.1, fourth in the NFL, while Eli is at -5.6, yes, minus 5.6, which is 27th.
Picks in a moment.
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