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Originally Posted by Dan73
Salisbury: Kirk Cousins Looked After Stats More Than His Team « CBS DC
I had about three or four players from the Redskins — who don’t dislike Kirk Cousins — literally reach out to me during the season while I was on this show saying to me he can play, but don’t go by his numbers always,” Smith said on Tuesday, via*Dan Steinberg of The Washington Post. “Because, they said, there had been many occasions where we’ll be down, or we’re struggling, and what he will do is pad his numbers, calling certain plays in concert with the offensive coordinator, putting himself in a position where his numbers look good even if it’s not necessarily the right play that could help us get stuff done.”
https://www.all22.com/washington-red...lays-pad-stats
*Go back and watch some of Cousins’ performances*in 2016. What you’ll find is a quarterback enjoying clean pockets, throwing to wide open receivers and struggling mightily when those luxuries aren’t afforded to him.
Cousins is very much a product of the system Scot McCloughan and Jay Gruden have so brilliantly crafted. He doesn’t transcend the system like the truly great quarterbacks we have in this league*— the Bradys, Rodgers and Lucks. If anything, Cousins has held a stacked offense back with*his aversion to taking risks.
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The first artical is Sean Salisbury and he actually states in the article itself, that it's just his opinion.
Stephen A Smith, a crap stirring carnival barker, is the source for both the 2nd and 3rd article and that's from March of 2017, which means it was talking about the 2016 season.
I can't think of any disgruntled receivers who would have wanted to bad mouth Kirk on their way out the door to Tampa and San Fran.
Name one skill player on offense this year (2017) who would have any standing at all to bad mouth him. Our receivers sucked, our running backs sucked (except CT), and our TE's sucked. Kirk was our best offensive skill player and it wasn't even close.
https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/passing#yards
The air yards stats kill this narrative every which way.
His aversion to risk is not necessarily related to padding stats.
I do believe that Jay wanted him to take more chances but his not putting the ball in harm's way doesn't mean he was selfish.