The Patriots Are Back, the Chargers Are Done, and More Week 4 Story Lines

PelisseroKirk Cousins this year is on his 11th consecutive fully guaranteed year going all the way back to 2016 when he played on the franchise tag. So if you do it, just like Lamar did it too, he played the whole thing out and no agent would have advised him as a former MVP, yeah, year four, go play for $3 million.

PelisseroThey would have told him, hold out. But there are different ways that you can approach it. Again, Bryce has made more money than most quarterbacks in the post -2011 CBA era through the first four years of his career. If anybody can go, hey, what's my worst -case scenario? I made $40 million.

PelisseroNow I'll just wait it out until I get traded or something else. I don't think there's any reason that you wouldn't do that. But it also, there's a two -part thing here. It's also, what does the team want to do? It'll be a fascinating negotiation. Who knows? Maybe even it comes up this week.

PelisseroThey're on the bye. He's playing really well. Do they re -engage? I don't know that that happens but if you were ever going to do it we've seen that happen with other teams in the

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