Cousins to start 2015 Season

[That Guy]

after brunell threw for 57 yards (total!) in a playoff win vs tampa, gibbs had nothing bad to say about him. gibbs is Mr. "fighting his guts out."

so, yeah. I wouldn't be looking to him for confirmation of who can and can't play in the league. he's just never going to dunk on anyone ever.

[NC_Skins]

Can this mother fucker be cleared already? What the hell is taking so long?

[over the mountain]

looking forward to 1 pm, Sunday, September 13th ...... yeehaw!

[OnceWeWereKings]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

looking forward to 1 pm, Sunday, September 13th ...... yeehaw!

^this
I'll either be drinking to celebrate, or to forget.

[RedskinJake]

Also from PFT..

Now that Kirk Cousins has been named the starting quarterback, Shanahan thinks a good season is coming.

“Washington will be much better than people think they will,” Shanahan said.

[NC_Skins]

I feel like this is the whole Jabar Gaffney conversation with Goat all over again. Except this time, it's about RG3.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

I feel like this is the whole Jabar Gaffney conversation with Goat all over again. Except this time, it's about RG3.

don't you dare sully the name of the legendary jabar gaffney.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

I feel like this is the whole Jabar Gaffney conversation with Goat all over again. Except this time, it's about RG3.

Holy Crap ....

It's like déjà vu all over again!

[kingj]

Shanarat wants credit if cousins blows up. One thing we can all agree on is the mastermind/offensive genius or whatever he's called has one of the biggest egos in the world.

[30gut]

Shanahan has successfully sold the story that he wasn't fired for his w-l record, league worst defense, historically bad special teams nor overall abysnal tenure as GM nor his incessant leaks to the media.

Nope, RGIII got him fired nevermind in 2013 the best unit on the team was the offense.

I tip my cap to Shanahan for relentlessly pushing his no fault narrative. Many people buy in. Hook, line and sinker.
He would be an expert at counter intelligence and deception planning.

[DYoungJelly]

Originally Posted by 30gut

Nope, RGIII got him fired nevermind in 2013 the best unit on the team was the offense.

Exactly.

Wouldn't Kyle be the perfect guy to hire next year after Jay and Kirk are fired to resurrect the flat lining Griffin?

Everyone that cites 2012 as the reason to hang onto Griffin surely would surely want to bring Kyle's zone read option wizardry back. We could bring back smaller more mobile offensive lineman that can get to the second level and block in space.

It is, after all, the only system Griffin has won actual NFL games in. He might make it half way through a season before he breaks something again.

If we're chasing success from a few years ago we could cut Griffin and sign Tim Tebow.

He has had better success in the playoffs than Griffin.

Or, we could stick with the proven McLovin plan and build a team with depth across the board and plug in QBs until we hit on one that works.

[RedskinJake]

Originally Posted by DYoungJelly

We could bring back smaller more mobile offensive lineman that can get to the second level and block in space.

It is, after all, the only system Griffin has won actual NFL games in. He might make it half way through a season before he breaks something again.

If we're chasing success from a few years ago we could cut Griffin and sign Tim Tebow.

He has had better success in the playoffs than Griffin.

Or, we could stick with the proven McLovin plan and build a team with depth across the board and plug in QBs until we hit on one that works.

Maybe Spurrier is looking to come back to the NFL for 2 years to pull down another 25mil..

[30gut]

Originally Posted by DYoungJelly

Exactly.....It is, after all, the only system Griffin has won actual NFL games in. He might make it half way through a season before he breaks something again.

Jol, "Exactly" as if your post had anything at all to do with the point of my post. The overriding theme in this thread is that responding to a post only needs to be incidentally remotely related to the actual post.

Also by completely avoiding the point of the post you actually illustrate how the facts don't really matter anymore. Mike Shanahan prolly won't (and shouldn't) ever get an NFL HC job again. But he's done a bang-up job of shifting any discussion about his firing away from the actual reasons he was fired and onto Griffin and Dan.

Also, a quick point of fact, that will likely be ignored or purposefully conflated. But this is the second time you've mentioned read-option as a cause for Griffin injuries yet neither of his injury occurred doing read-option.

And, my post clearly states I was talking about 2013. I wasn't lauding the offense either I was just reminding people that despite the feeling and perceptions about the offense that year the offense was still the best unit on the team.

None of which has anything to do with....

Originally Posted by DYoungJelly

Or, we could stick with the proven McLovin plan and build a team with depth across the board and plug in QBs until we hit on one that works.

But kudos, almost Mike Shanahan level of topic shifting.

[DYoungJelly]

Originally Posted by 30gut

Jol, "Exactly" as if your post had anything at all to do with the point of my post. Its an illustration of how the facts don't really matter anymore. Mike Shanahan prolly won't (and shouldn't) ever get an NFL HC job again. But he's done a bang-up job of shifting any discussion about his firing away from the actual reasons he was fired and onto Griffin and Dan.

Also, a quick point of fact, that will likely be ignored or purposefully conflated. But this is the second time you've mentioned read-option as a cause for Griffin injuries yet neither of his injury occurred doing read-option.

And, my post clearly states I was talking about 2013.

I'm not claiming the read option broke him, RG2 and RG3 were passively at least.

I'm assuming that's why they no longer wanted him to be an option QB

I have no idea if the next injury will be caused by him holding on to the ball too long, scrambling into a 340lb nose tackle running full speed, trying to recover a fumble, when he shouldn't have been in the game, or jumping awkwardly out of bounds trying to complete a pass.

BTW, I hate the red lobster. His ego and the success he had here is literally identical to Griffin's plenty of blame to go around.

[30gut]

Originally Posted by DYoungJelly

....RG2 and RG3 were passively at least.

I'm assuming that's why they no longer wanted him to be an option QB

A couple things. Bringing up RGII carries very little weight in my opinion, he's an outsider that has 0 power. Second an oft overlooked point of fact is that Griffin actually ran read-option in the 2013 season from week 4 on. So all the rhetoric or posturing about whether or not Griffin will/will not likes/doesn't/didn't like read-option is moot because the fact is that he will run read-option because he did run read-option in the 2013 season, but Mike's agenda induced amnesia doesn't recall. And lets not forget that in 2013 he was coming off major knee surgery.
Any sane person would be more then a little gunshy/protective when it comes to a major knee injury. (neither here nor there but I read somewhere that after acl tears players are nervous about sliding feet first because they're worried about getting their foot snagged.)

I have no idea if the next injury

We also have no idea whether he'll get injured at all or injured at a higher rate then any other QB. Its the NFL, everyone gets hurt. Its why being available is such a rare and valuable quality.

BTW, I hate the red lobster. His ego and the success he had here is literally identical to Griffin's plenty of blame to go around.

But unsurprisingly your comments focused not on the myriad of Mike's coaching mistakes but upon Griffin.