So, Kirk Cousins goes 10-23 264 yds and 3 tds against the Bears in last weeks game, and then only gets one attempt this week? They know what Grossman can do, yet they give him all the reps. Do anyone else think it is possible that Shanahan didn't put Cousins in the game in order to squelch any talk about whether Cousins is the more NFL ready QB? Shanahan is a deek.
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Shanahanigans - Conspiracy Theory (1 Viewer)
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Bruce Hammond
Footballguy
I think it makes sense that the guy who is going to be your #2 gets the game reps. RG3 takes off on a run and gets hurt, you want RG3-and-out as sharp and ready as possible. Cousins won't see the field all year if the other guys are healthy, don't waste starter reps on him. He'll get to play again some more next week against the to-be-cut scrubs.
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
Pretty sure he's just trying to motivate Tatum Bell.
duaneok66
Footballguy
this.
fatness
Footballguy
No.
Fair enough, but they aren't really running any of their actual offense, and I think Grossman had kinda had the reps. no surprises, and he doesn't really need to experience the pressure of game situations. I'm just saying it was weird...weird that they drafted him and weird that he only got one attempt after having a solid performance last week. They are starting a rookie over Grossman why couldn't a rookie (that some/many analyst have said is more NFL ready) be the back up.
fatness
Footballguy
That's their plan, eventually --- to have Cousins be the backup and no longer need Grossman. Whether that happens before the end of this season, or for next season, it'll happen. Right now Grossman will be #2 during the beginning of the regular season and they wanted him to get some work.
That's their plan, eventually --- to have Cousins be the backup and no longer need Grossman. Whether that happens before the end of this season, or for next season, it'll happen. Right now Grossman will be #2 during the beginning of the regular season and they wanted him to get some work.
Just doesn't make sense
Just doesn't make sense
Donnybrook
Footballguy
Cousins will start Wednesday night's game against Tampa Bay. Maybe if Cousins preforms in that game he can usurp Grossman.
I think you are also making the assumption that all QB competitions are really competitions. I think some coaches have a predetermined order in their mind prior to the start of the season. I always felt that Rosenfels out preformed TJax in 2009 preseason but Childress wasn't willing to admit his mistake at that time. Instead he traded Sage and Reynard to the Giants for a 5th round pick.
I think you are also making the assumption that all QB competitions are really competitions. I think some coaches have a predetermined order in their mind prior to the start of the season. I always felt that Rosenfels out preformed TJax in 2009 preseason but Childress wasn't willing to admit his mistake at that time. Instead he traded Sage and Reynard to the Giants for a 5th round pick.
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teamramrod
Footballguy
AWESOME.peace
Warrior
Footballguy
Is it really that hard to understand?
fatness
Footballguy
He's fishing. Nobody really believes that 1 preseason game against a team's second string suddenly makes a rookie QB worthy of being the #2 QB on his team. He's headed somewhere with this, but he won't come out and say where.
Add that preseason game to his body of work at the collegiate level, and his upside warrants more than one attempt to see if he could possibly move into the back up role. Actually, I do understand. I just think saying Grossman needed the reps more than the team needed to see what they had in Cousins is dumb. I don't think Shanahan is dumb so why did it play out like that? Remember drafting RG3 and Cousins was one of the biggest stories of the draft.
VaTerp
Footballguy
You say you understand but your posts indicate otherwise. Is this Skip Bayless?The drafting of Cousins was a big story only because people in the media saw it as an opportunity for one.
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fatness
Footballguy
Nobody else seems to feel this way. Why do you?
Shutout
Footballguy
Actually, i think their plan is to groom this guy and trade him to another team someday.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Agreed. Which gels with not playing him much this preseason. Once he looked good, why change anyone's mind?
Bruce Hammond
Footballguy
After the Kolb and Whitehurst situations (most recently, and of course there have been others), I think teams are going to back off from trading for unproven backup QBs in hopes of making them starters. You draft and develop your own, you don't overpay for someone else's 4th rounder they are looking to unload. The current team sees them every day in practice, not just in preseason duty vs. scrubs, and there's more than likely a reason they are willing to let them go.
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Bo Skiboski
Footballguy
Sometimes coaches don't want to showcase players to the rest of the league in that last game.
fatness
Footballguy
I doubt that is their plan. Their backup QB's the last 2 years have been Grossman and John Beck. They don't want to wallow in tar pits like that any more. They want a solid backup QB for years to come. NFL teams don't draft players thinking "we don't want him but maybe we can trade him in a couple years."
PewterFan
Footballguy
Teams usually don't, but the Eagles have made an art out of it.
