[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Dan73

Cousins was on a DC area radio station recently, and he talked about the*first conversation he had with Kyle Shanahan*after the 2012 NFL Draft.

“He was just introducing himself,” Cousins recalled. “I remember the first thing he said was, ‘My goal is to develop you and help you play well enough that someday we can trade you.'”

“And that was kind of the vision all along,” he said. “We didn’t draft you to not help the team or to sit on the bench, but at the same time, we don’t really want you to play. We want you to sit on the bench and hopefully play well enough in the preseason to get an opportunity.”

https://www.ninersnation.com/2017/10...ould-trade-him

You would think Cousins defenders would know this.

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Read the very next sentence in the story....

"Although we have since learned how much the Shanahan’s liked Cousins over RG3".

You would figure cousin haters would know this by now.