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Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe
Pocket passers typically don't peak until they're in their mid 30's, I don't see Cousins' age as an issue. If Shanny Jr. loves him as much as has been portrayed I could see him being pretty happy with getting the best 10 years of Cousins' career.
I wouldn't want Denver to do it, and I know that KC is sick and tired of trading for other teams QB's, but I could understand why the 49ers would want to do it.
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Jesus...it's bad enough having to have this argument with idiot Smith fans, we have to have this argument with opposing fans as well?
No they don't. Truly great, HoF caliber passers often don't age that much as they enter their mid-30s and they've developed superstar bonafides so you come to appreciate them more in their mid-30s, but no, they weren't better than they were in their late 20s. And for the vast VAST majority of pocket passers, they're simply out of the league altogether by their mid-30s because the skills are gone.
You're using an awful sample size of passers that made it to their mid 30s as starters precisely because they were already great quarterbacks. That is not a representative sample of passers nor is it any kind of proxy for Kirk Cousins.
Cousins has maybe 2 more prime seasons in him and by 32 he'll be on his way out of the league, IMO. He'll hang on for another couple of years after that and by 35 he'll just be gone altogether. He will not be peaking 7 years from now.