“We find out a lot of stuff on Twitter every day that people would rather we don’t find out on Twitter,” he said Thursday. “It’s the nature of the beast. Everybody’s a reporter. Everybody’s fighting for a scoop. I’m guessing the Redskins didn’t want to disseminate the information that way. I’m guessing they always wanted to keep secrecy as a part of this, so they didn’t want to call the guy’s agent.”
Dukes also views the acquisition of Alex Smith as an upgrade at quarterback for the Redskins, and warns, whichever team signs Kirk Cousins next, if they have to pay Cousins an average annual value of $30 million, they’re effectively signing their own “death sentence.”
“And to move on from that, and to get a quarterback that had a better year than Cousins did last year, if I’ve got to sacrifice a third-round pick… okay. Sign me up for it.”
“It doesn’t exonerate [the Redskins] from what came before,” Dukes added. “It doesn’t exonerate them from what brought them to this spot. I’m just talking about the transition itself.”