Dana Turner
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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson
By completion percentage, Kirk Cousins in the 2nd most accurate QB in the history of the NFL. Only Drew Brees is higher.
And before you say, "THAT'S BECAUSE HE CHECKS DOWN.." ..
His yards-per-attempt in his career is *higher* than Brees.
(Dustin Baker on Twitter)
Dynamic running and passing quarterbacks seem to be the trend though. Cousins has incredible strengths, but also incredible weaknesses. If we are going to keep him we have to fortify the offensive line more.
This year we saw some glimpses of what Cousins is and can be. They say that nobody studies more than him or that he works incredibly hard on many different aspects of his heath and mental preparation. To me that means he is smart enough to understand his weaknesses and is doing everything he can to give himself every edge he can. That's a good thing. I don't know what the offensive staff will look like, but if they stay in house and keep the same system going, it will improvements on the o-line and third receiver that take it to the next level.
We saw that Cousins doesn't have to be the focal point, and we also saw that he can poor it on weaker defenses, what we need to see is growth. Defensive coordinators, at least the best ones, know how to break QB's down and get in to their heads, make them play from an uncomfortable position. What Cousins and the offensive staff need to get better at is predicting those moves and being ready with counter moves. I was very disappointed that a few times, especially the S.F. game, the offense was caught without an alternate game plan of counter moves to the run being stuffed. Better self scouting and setting aside the ego a little bit would bit would be improvements needed to move this offense to the next level.
Cousins is a good QB, very accurate in all throws and he understands most of the defensive looks he's getting. He needs to get better at recognizing disguised defenses and understanding the limitations of the guys up front against superior defensive fronts. I personally don't see Cousins as a future HOF guy, a guy that will win multiple championships, but I do think he is better than a lot of other QB's that have a ring, he just needs to play his best and let the rest of the team do it's job and he can help win games. Too much pressure on him and he's not the guy, just way it is, so don't get in to a lot of those situations. They need to understand what they got in Cousins and put him in the best spot to perform, he's at his best when things are going positive, as most of us are.
We might have the future O-line guys and Udo and Samia, I don't know, but we better draft another up high and another DB or two. One good D-tackle might also be needed, but I think Watts might surprise next year. I like Bisi and think he can be a solid #3 guy. Sign Harris, Mac and let Waynes go, fire Rhodes, Reiff. Joseph either takes a big restructure of he has to go, restructure/extend Smith to free up a couple million there and get this figured out, windows are closing.
One more thing, I'm not a big Zimmer guy, he gets this year and if it doesn't happen, it wont, he's gotta go.
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