The most telling part of the progression yesterday: better decision making when receivers were covered. Several times in the redzone he scrambled and threw WELL out of bounds instead of trying to fit it in and throw the interception. Kirk has always been able to move the ball downfield but his achilles heel has been interceptions. In the last three games he has 8 TD passes vs. 1 Interception.
Next week versus Carolina is a tougher test though than the pourous New Orleans defense. I don't expect the Redskins to win necessarily but I would like to see Cousins continue to protect the ball and be efficient with the short to intermediate passing game as he has been recently.
He also had one really nice long pass to Jackson yesterday but it seems like the Redskins really need to add another long ball threat next year (Jackson too fragile to pay 9 M per year to) to allow Kirk to grow in that phase of the game...
The only way to find out if this will be a career problem is reps. Not saying Cousins is the next great one but most guys throw tons of INTs early in their career. If Peyton Manning didn't have the last name of Manning, he would have been benched before the end of his rookie season.
Calvin Johnson will be available. Yesterday he tried to get off the team by botching the onside kick perfectly but his stupid team played defense and ruined his exit. I guarantee that if they lose that game the old bag owner blows her stack about paying a WR 20+ million a year to lose games. Calvin just can't win but I still think he is let go. Hopefully he is getting good advice to not entertain any sort of renegotiation of his contract. Cousins/Gruden won't be wusses about getting him the ball 15 times a game.