Posted on 12/11/2013 10:41:57 AM PST by Red Badger
UPDATE (9:15 a.m. ET): Well that didn't take long. A report from John Keim of ESPN has Cousins already named the starter, though it's not official (and the Redskins probably won't announce it). Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports the "tentative" plan is to start Cousins.
The drama is set to unfold fast and furious in Washington as the Redskins season comes to a close. And the opening act (of the second set?) is underway: reports emerged Wednesday morning that Mike Shanahan is leaning toward starting Kirk Cousins.
Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reports that "people inside [the Redskins] building" are "under the impression" Cousins will start.
Additionally, a source specifically tells Glazer -- re: Cousins starting -- that it "looks that way but won't be sure he settles on it [until] practice." That sourced added that "Mike can always change."
That change would/could come in the form of an argument from current/deposed starter Robert Griffin III.
After reports emerged that Shanahan wanted to resign last year, Shanahan promptly didn't completely deny those reports on Sunday before noting on Monday that he was contemplating shutting Griffin down for the year. You don't do that to your starting, star quarterback -- assuming he's healthy like Shanahan said -- unless you're trying to Costanza your way out of your job.
With the Redskins reportedly thinking about withholding cash from Shanny, that could be the exact plan. So, everyone's operating under the assumption that Cousins is the starter for the last three weeks of the season. But RG3 will have a chance to try and persuade Shanahan that he should start, either verbally or in practice.
That means three more days of heightened tension and drama in Washington as a 3-10 team with the second-worst point differential in the NFL (-128) gets ready to play the Falcons in Atlanta.
It's only going to get messier from here.
Just proves that RG3 getting Rookie of the year last year was PC public relations. Both Luck of the Colts and Wilson of the Seahawks, both of whom are also having good seasons this year, deserved it much more. Green getting benched confirms this.
At this point why not? I think Shanahan is doing his best to get fired before the end of the season.
Cousins is auditioning for a spot on another team next year....He’ll be highly motivated.
The Skins have ruined at least two franchise QBs by never having any semblance of an offensive line in front of them and, apparently, Shanahan doesn’t want to see that happen to RB3. They weren’t ready to draft a top QB when they drafted RG3, they need to go for three or four years using high draft picks for linemen. From the point at which they got rid of Cerrato, they had next to nothing to show for drafting; it’ll take ten years to recover from that.
Why risk RG3’s health on a losing season?
Shanahan might as well. I don’t think he liked RG3 much anyways
Wilson has all the PC credibility of Griffin.
He's been leaking to the press like a petulant, jealous little girl for 2 years now in the hopes that Snyder will fire his worthless ass. He's blown up the locker room. Destroyed one of the best 4-3 Defenses in the leagueand replaced with the worst 3-4 defense in the league. He's given play calling responsibility to his stupid and incompetent son and evidently has nobody...at any time responsible for clock management.
Go to hell Shannahan.
They traded their high draft picks for RG3, even this coming drafts first pic belongs to the Chiefs or something from a trade that happened 2 or 3 years ago
I disagree. Griffin was the media darling from the day Washingto drafted him.
I agree that he was a media darling, but I think that had more to do with his franchise (the Beltway crowd's beloved Redskins) than anything else.
Cousins would be a serviceable QB for several NFL teams.
As for the Redskins...I thought the Cowboys were a train wreck. I was wrong. They got nothing on the dysfunctional Redskins. I don’t blame Shanahan for trying to get out of that asylum. I don’t know why anyone would want the job. Or the one in Dallas, for that matter.
So, I'm happy it never worked out. No player is/was worth that package of draft picks.
The Vikings would be glad to take either one of them.
RG3 has never fully recovered from his injuries. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cousins starts the rest of the way, in order to let RG# heal and create a trade market for one of the QBs.
Why play Griffin with a 3 win season. Griffin ain`t the problem, it`s the coach and his losing streak.
Play out the string,ahem~loose, shoot for top draft pick at No. 1.
Being a life long Redskins fan I am getting use to this crap. Alot of Redskins fans are notoriously fickle. Hell, back in the early 90’s a local reporter wrote a series of articles about the “Redskins Bandwagon” and how everyone was jumping on it when they did well.
Fact is the are not a good team! Can’t block - Can’t tackle - WR don’t get open enough - can’t cover a punt or kickoff. They should have never went to 3-4 defense. And the icing on the cake is they would have the 2nd pick in 2014 draft but they traded it away for RGIII.
Lessons learned........or maybe not!!
Paging Joe Gibbs! Paging Joe Gibbs! Can you please p/u the red courtesy phone!
RGScreen ain’t got it to be an NFL dominating QB, proving once again that sports is more social engineering than sport. But it is funny to listen to the caste system whores brag on a guy who runs the option offense in the pros, funny as hell.
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