Cousins has arrived

[Schneed10]

Yeah we're good. Punch it in you are funny and are on my 'nice' list. I'm just your friendly (usually) quality control officer.

[punch it in]

[MTK]

Kirk Cousins’s subtle improvements are making an obvious impact

Good stuff here

[skinsfanthru&thru]

Had some doubts about the guy early in the year like a lot of us did and still believe rightfully so, but I'll be damned if he didn't show Gruden was right to show some patience with him and he straight balled out the last half of the year except the couple of games where the offense as a whole didn't do much. Cousins reminds me a lot of a you Brad Johnson and I can get behind that behind our franchise QB for the foreseeable future.

[That Guy]

i don't think gruden is an amazing coach, but i think he's an honest and generally competent one.

[MTK]

The players love Gruden.

[30gut]

In my view Gruden got off to a rocky start. Early on he was impatient at the QB position (including Kirk), the team looked unprepared and/or out coached at times. His press conferences were an untapped stream of consciousness ramble and was far too honest with the media for my taste.

I got the impression that he was sharp with passing game Xs and Os in his system but was/remains inflexible in making major schematic adjustments (which is fine provided there is production without those adjustments) and he kinda had a disheveled and bumbling appearance in my eyes compared to his brothers hardworking grinder type persona.

He has improved in many regards, helped no doubt by a weak NFC and schedule, but Kirk was his main accomplish. Getting Kirk to play productive, consistent, winning football. I still have concerns over (a) how his focus, approach, scheme and plan impact the running game (b) the inability to capitalize off turnovers (c) a stubbornness/ predictability to aspects of the offense (d) lack of adjustments on the fly to adapt to good defense (against bad defense he'll destroy them)

On the whole the offense is good. The special teams and defense are playing much better. Hats off to Scott.

Jay is still a young coach and he has given me much more reason to have faith going forward then at the start of the season.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by MTK

The players love Gruden.

Yup. They play for him. They believe in him. This cannot be overlooked no matter how you feel about his x's and o's. Which I am fine with anyway.

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by MTK

The players love Gruden.

Jay Gruden is a player's coach...his brother was a great his coach and his father was a head coach.... so I knew he had what it took to be a head coach.... last season he was dealing with the baggage from the Shanahan regime. And as a rookie head coach last year he could do no better than he did.

I think he's ascending as a head coach now.

[skinsfaninok]

Jay should stay as long as kirk does, this appears to be the next Payton/Brees combo.

[MTK]

McVay may be even more important to Cousins than Gruden.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by MTK

McVay may be even more important to Cousins than Gruden.

So earlier in the year Gruden was the playcaller and Mcvay was like an assistant. Or such was the talk on here(yes since I dont live in the DC area, my Skins news source is the WP), has Mcvay sort have stepped up on the control ladder?

[DYoungJelly]

Originally Posted by punch it in

So earlier in the year Gruden was the playcaller and Mcvay was like an assistant. Or such was the talk on here(yes since I dont live in the DC area, my Skins news source is the WP), has Mcvay sort have stepped up on the control ladder?

Cooley said on the radio that McVay was calling the plays. He said Gruden still had final say and what not as you'd expect.

He and the others on the radio show surmised that Gruden is dodgy about the play calling question to deflect any negative comments to himself.

[over the mountain]

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re Cousins new contract - I think he realizes this system is geared towards his strengths and he would not have nearly the same success in a diff system. also, gruden/mcvay put their coaching jobs on the line to give him this chance. i also feel like this high production level w very little picks can not be sustained over the long run and his numbers will start to regress back to his median .. still very very good but i dont see a brees/brady/rodgers/manning type production level. more like eli manning/dalton/ryan/flacco, which would be great over the long run.

[SFREDSKIN]

An old article about McVay

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...oordinator-do/