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“He hasn’t played well, and this offense hasn’t scored touchdowns,” Cooley said. “I don’t think he’s played his best football by any means. I don’t think he’s been bad, but I don’t think he’s been anywhere near what he was in the run of the back half of last year. You watch this kid operate for a span of eight games where we’re unstoppable. And you’re watching this offense operate now and go up and down the field and you’re saying why aren’t we scoring 40? …
“Just trust me on this: it’s going to be fine. There’s a lot of available. He’s missing a lot. And he’s also making some plays as well, and he’s not making the bad plays. … He’s not making the really bad plays. He’s had a couple of them; just a couple of them in three games. He’s just got to make the great plays, and he’s got to make the great plays more often.”
Here’s the resulting dialog:
Kevin Sheehan: Your grade indicated that his performance in two of the three weeks is not starting NFL quarterback caliber. I’m just saying that that’s overly harsh.
Cooley: Colt McCoy could have done everything that Kirk did in that game.
Sheehan: [Unhappy grumble.] Wowwww. Wow. Colt McCoy could have done everything. … Would he have done better? Would he have done better?
Cooley: He could have done what was done in that game. The throw to DeSean [Jackson] was a great throw. A throw on third down to get them down there [in the red zone] to Jordan Reed in the seam was a great throw. A throw to [Jamison] Crowder on an out on a third down was a greatthrow. There were some great throws made. There were more mediocre and poor throws made — in this one game, please understand, this one game — than he needed to have. And thus that makes him — in this one game — at a lower level, in whatever grading scale it is. And I’m going to go back to this for the 10th time: I’m not wrong on this one.
Sheehan I didn’t say you were. You’re not wrong about how much he’s missing and how much better he could be, but when you put him at a backup level for three straight games — when quarterbacks throughout the league are paying at a much worse level — then you’re saying that essentially right now the league’s got like 15 starting quarterbacks.
Cooley: Yeah
Sheehan: Well, you’ve got 32 [teams] in need. And you know what I would do: I would shop Colt McCoy right now to 17 teams that need one.
Cooley: And I told you at the beginning of the year that [McCoy] could start for five of them, and you laughed at that, too.
Indeed, Cooley did argue that McCoy could start for six NFL teams at the beginning of this season. Come to think of it, he also argued, repeatedly, that Trent Williams could be a great left guard, and that the Redskins might consider that. Maybe he does have some special insight.
Anyhow, Cooley still thinks Cousins can rediscover his 2015 form.
“He wasn’t there so far in three games,” he said. “I’m not questioning that; I’m sure of that. That’s a fact. He wasn’t there in three games, where he was last year. He knows it, Sean [McVay] knows it, Jay [Gruden] knows it. They all watch the same film that I’m watching. It’s not another game. It doesn’t mean that he can’t be there this week against the Browns, and every week for the rest of the season, because I expect that he will. So if we’re panicking or being over-critical, then we’re being over-critical of what’s happened. It’s a production league, and this is what he’s produced so far.”
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“He hasn’t played well, and this offense hasn’t scored touchdowns,” Cooley said. “I don’t think he’s played his best football by any means. I don’t think he’s been bad, but I don’t think he’s been anywhere near what he was in the run of the back half of last year. You watch this kid operate for a span of eight games where we’re unstoppable. And you’re watching this offense operate now and go up and down the field and you’re saying why aren’t we scoring 40? …
“Just trust me on this: it’s going to be fine. There’s a lot of available. He’s missing a lot. And he’s also making some plays as well, and he’s not making the bad plays. … He’s not making the really bad plays. He’s had a couple of them; just a couple of them in three games. He’s just got to make the great plays, and he’s got to make the great plays more often.”
Here’s the resulting dialog:
Kevin Sheehan: Your grade indicated that his performance in two of the three weeks is not starting NFL quarterback caliber. I’m just saying that that’s overly harsh.
Cooley: Colt McCoy could have done everything that Kirk did in that game.
Sheehan: [Unhappy grumble.] Wowwww. Wow. Colt McCoy could have done everything. … Would he have done better? Would he have done better?
Cooley: He could have done what was done in that game. The throw to DeSean [Jackson] was a great throw. A throw on third down to get them down there [in the red zone] to Jordan Reed in the seam was a great throw. A throw to [Jamison] Crowder on an out on a third down was a greatthrow. There were some great throws made. There were more mediocre and poor throws made — in this one game, please understand, this one game — than he needed to have. And thus that makes him — in this one game — at a lower level, in whatever grading scale it is. And I’m going to go back to this for the 10th time: I’m not wrong on this one.
Sheehan I didn’t say you were. You’re not wrong about how much he’s missing and how much better he could be, but when you put him at a backup level for three straight games — when quarterbacks throughout the league are paying at a much worse level — then you’re saying that essentially right now the league’s got like 15 starting quarterbacks.
Cooley: Yeah
Sheehan: Well, you’ve got 32 [teams] in need. And you know what I would do: I would shop Colt McCoy right now to 17 teams that need one.
Cooley: And I told you at the beginning of the year that [McCoy] could start for five of them, and you laughed at that, too.
Indeed, Cooley did argue that McCoy could start for six NFL teams at the beginning of this season. Come to think of it, he also argued, repeatedly, that Trent Williams could be a great left guard, and that the Redskins might consider that. Maybe he does have some special insight.
Anyhow, Cooley still thinks Cousins can rediscover his 2015 form.
“He wasn’t there so far in three games,” he said. “I’m not questioning that; I’m sure of that. That’s a fact. He wasn’t there in three games, where he was last year. He knows it, Sean [McVay] knows it, Jay [Gruden] knows it. They all watch the same film that I’m watching. It’s not another game. It doesn’t mean that he can’t be there this week against the Browns, and every week for the rest of the season, because I expect that he will. So if we’re panicking or being over-critical, then we’re being over-critical of what’s happened. It’s a production league, and this is what he’s produced so far.”
