Who is Kirk Cousins?

[Paintrain]

My preseason take on Cousins:
He is a classic Gruden QB. Technically sound but overwhelmingly mediocre. He will look great when things are perfect. When the play call matches the defense, when the primary read is open, when he gets great protection and most importantly, when he is playing with the lead. When any of those break down however, so does he...quickly.

Ask him to perform at a high level over a period of time and you will be disappointed. He is too careless with the ball, too pre-determined with where the ball will go and doesn't rally from adversity well.

If he starts all 16 games, he will probably put up good numbers on paper.. 3200 or so yards, 5 or 6 300 yard games, probably 18-24 TD with 14-18 INT.. The reality however will probably result in a 3-5 win season and fans hoping 'that he can put it all together with a full offseason of being the starter'.

Ultimately Cousins is fools gold.

At the midway point I can't say my mind has changed much. I have seen growth in recovering from the big mistake but he still makes too many that he needs to recover from. Some point to the fact he's led three game winning or tying drives but his play also contributed to the need for those drives. Let's not forget he's looked bad vs 3 of the 4 good defenses we've played (NYG, NYJ, MIA) and coming into yesterday was averaging about 16.5 PPG which ain't good.

He clearly needs to be the QB for the remainder of the year. McCoy is no good and Gruden bailed on Griffin long ago. End of the day however, our 2016 starter isn't on our roster and Cousins will be a backup/fringe starter somewhere else.