While the veteran has been turnover-prone during a four-game losing streak, not all of the team’s issues are on him.
Like staring into a new galaxy via telescope or examining a hotel bedspread via microscope, the Atlanta Falcons’ offense raises more questions the longer one stares. A quick, drive-by assessment might conclude that the Falcons’ quarterback is simply too rusty, too injured or too old to complete his tasks as assigned. After all, Kirk Cousins has not thrown a touchdown since Nov. 3 and now has six interceptions in his past two games.
Of course, when one pays $45 million per year for a quarterback and immediately drafts his successor in the first round, they must lie in the bed they have inevitably created. The box-score narrative on Cousins will be such that it forces the Falcons to spend the next week having conversations they do not wish to have publicly.washed crowd: Cousins spent the past two weeks letting go of footballs that had an exit velocity akin to bubbles out of a toddler’s plastic wand.
This has been the theme of the Cousins-coaster, which has seen the quarterback start the year with 14 touchdowns and one interception on throws from a clean pocket and shift to a zero touchdowns and four interceptions in the games since. Even in last week’s four-interception performance against the Los Angeles Chargers, one of the picks was on a ball where Cousins saw his wide receiver curbing the route and turning back toward the football, but the receiver instead kept extending the route.
If you want to nitpick Cousins in particular, there was a highly controversial instance in this game where Drake London was awarded a catch on a simultaneous possession scenario. However, on replay, London didn’t even have one of his hands on the ball, signifying that Cousins may have thrown an additional pick. Minnesota’s pick-six artist, Andrew Van Ginkel, almost jumped a screen pass as well.
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