OT: Kirk Cousins is Back
Looks like they're shutting down RGIII for the season.
(Edit: Boy, y'all sure are serious today. Would you prefer I refer to him by his Christian name?)
[mod edit: title adjusted to make sense, not sound like douche-y]
December 11th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
See, I actually like him, because he's from my hometown, so more than a small part of me is rooting for him to do well. It's awfully conflicting.
December 12th, 2013 at 2:56 AM ^
Part of me is actually pulling for him to play well. I'm not from his hometown or anything, but I've always respected Cousins. He seems like a good guy.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 4:29 PM ^
I mostly agree with this, but his comments in 2011 about how unfair it was that Michigan got to play in the sugar bowl despite watching from the couch during the BIG championship game struck me as prototypical Sparty sour grapes. Not saying he's not a good guy, but he did lose a lot of my respect after those comments.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
Well, technically he's correct. If the same thing happened to us with OSU, then we'd be furious and the board would be melting down. It's just hilarious for us since it's Michigan State.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:05 PM ^
We WOULD be pissed, but it WOULDN'T happen to us because national TV audiences give a poop about Michigan and they do not about Sparty. It's his fault he went to EL. Whining about it not being fair is just silly. We can't help what bowl folks decide just because they want the most watchable product.
December 11th, 2013 at 7:10 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^
Other than being undefeated against Michigan he hasn't done much to warrant the crap he gets here.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^
He did whine quite a bit about michigan's success and sugar bowl win.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:41 PM ^
And being insufferable about it?
December 11th, 2013 at 4:33 PM ^
I suspect he didn't earn a ton of goodwill there.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:37 PM ^
Spoken as a lifelong Washingtonian and Skins fan, the chatter around Cousins getting the starting nod might have as much to do with internal team politics as it does anything else. The Post (link) ran a long story on the complete disgust that Danny Boy and Shanahan have for each other with a lot of folks suggesting that Shanahan is trying to get fired so as to collect his $7M for next season.
I think the move is utterly disinegous, if ultimately correct. RGIII is broken and needs to reast for a long time, but there is no chance Mike Shananhan gives a rats ass about next year's Washington Redskins.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:05 PM ^
There isn't much of a system to play in right now given the absolutely atrocious state of the personnel, particularly the OL and entire defense (I know that no defense doesn't have anything to do with offensive execution per se, but the team is a tire fire in every direction).
Somebody will hire the Shananhan posse, but their (specifically Mike's) cachet and value are way lower than they were before.
And I like Cousins on the Skins. He's played pretty well in the past and I think he'll be a perfectly competent replacement to the extent he can stay in the pocket for more than one second without getting crushed. But anyone that hires Shananhan based on whatever Cousins can do in the last three weeks over the (dead) body of work he's produced over three years, well that's on them.
December 11th, 2013 at 7:33 PM ^
I think Shanahan is done. He's 61, has proven very difficult to work with in the past year and the bloom has been steadily coming off his rose for the past 14 years now.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:36 PM ^
make me laugh whenever I see people try to take holier than thou arguments against the Spartan fanbase.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:41 PM ^
Me, I like toi use my furniture for sitting.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^
after the Louisville game?
December 11th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:44 PM ^
How is it that Rex Grossman is only 33 years old? It seems like 1000 years ago he was at Florida with the Ol' Ball Coach...
December 11th, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
Is he about to spit in his ear?
December 11th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
This is an audition for Kirk for all 31 other teams (well, othe ones that need a QB). The Redskins have very few draft picks, and netting a late first or early second rounder for him might be best for all parties involved. Considering the way he tore up the Browns last season, I wouldn't mind if the Browns used their second first rounder to try and nab him, provided the wheels dont fall off the next three weeks. If the Browns took Sammy Watkins with their pick, and traded for Cousins with the Colts pick, then they'd have Josh Gordon, Jordan Cameron and Sammy Watkins for Cousins to throw the ball to.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:46 PM ^
I highly doubt they use a first round pick on Cousins with so many qbs available in the draft with higher potential.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:56 PM ^
Kirk Cousins isn't half bad, but he's not worth anything near a first-round pick. That's asinine. You can draft a much better QB, let alone trade a pick for one.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:48 PM ^
Report sayz Da Bears are lookin' for a new guy....
December 11th, 2013 at 6:09 PM ^
has played, I think their search ended on monday night.
December 11th, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^
I like Kirk...
December 11th, 2013 at 3:42 PM ^
I think he is a better NFL QB than a college QB. I don't know if that makes sense or how that works but he looks better in the NFL. I wasn't impressed by his career at MSU.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:11 PM ^
Well, in the NFL he is surrounded by NFL caliber talent on offense...not as much when he was on MSU. Not trying to troll, just being honest. Breaston was better in the NFL as a WR (and Avant is getting there) than at Michigan.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:07 PM ^
28-12 (0.700) as college starter with back to back 11 win seasons and a B1G Championship (albeit shared with Wisconsin and vacated OSU). I'll say he was a pretty darn good college QB. The NFL is a different beast though.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:25 PM ^
I'm happy for him. I grew up watching him play in my hometown and I really admire the guy. He deserves every second of playing time he can get.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
I like Kirk as well. My sister, an MSU grad, is a groupie for lack of a better word. She met him at a State game last year and he took a picture with my 8 yr old nephew and was really cool to them. Hard to hate on a guy like that.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:56 PM ^
Seriously? I honestly don't have an issue with the guy; I think he's not nearly as good as some people think he is at QB, but he's done nothing to offend or otherwise bother me except play at MSU. And given he played with guys like Worthy and Gholston, I give him extra credit for not wanting to kick either of them in the balls for being idiots.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
Seeing anything related to Michigan State just makes me sad these days....That's all. I have a hard time making fun of Kork Coupons right now. He is about to be a starting QB in the NFL, and the Spartans are in the Rose Bowl after embarassing OUR biggest rival...
Times have changed... Ugh.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
I'm a skins fan and after watching them dominate the preseason with Cousins at the helm, there was only so much mediocrity the fanbase could stomach. Not to hate on RG3, dude's obviously not healthy enough to be playing every sunday right now. My only gripe is that it took so long, that San Francisco game on MNF should have been RG3's last game of the year.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:11 PM ^
Cousins gets his "big opportunity" in the NFL, and he will turn out to be best remembered as the "straw that broke the camel's back" for Shanahan's tenure in Washington. Cousins will be remembered as a mere tool, an instrument by which Shanahan showed Snyder that he has no respect for his meddling. This, of course, forces Snyder to fire Shanahan and give him the big buyout.
Ironically enough, Shanahan's actions are reminiscent of ex-MSU and Detroit Lions HC Darryl Rogers when he said, "What does a coach have to do around here to get fired?"
Sparty on...
December 11th, 2013 at 7:40 PM ^
"Sparty on..."
This mockery makes literally zero sense in this place. You are a flaming idiot.
December 11th, 2013 at 7:39 PM ^
I really don't like Cousins' personality either, but this is an incredible lame meme.
Michigan couldn't beat him. Therefore, the "keep his name outcha mouf" ethic is the correct one. That is the way this sports thing works.
December 11th, 2013 at 8:10 PM ^
Still love the delicious irony of Sparty's "greatest" QB never going to a Rose Bowl.