“I’m the official that Cousins shoved. He was fired up because he was losing and running out of time,” he said. “Then the other team knocked the ball away while I was trying to set it for play. He wanted me to flag him for swatting it, but what he doesn’t know is that we were enforcing another penalty and it was going to give him another down. He never apologized or even showed any kind of regret. That’s ok though… everyone else gets to see how he is.”
This is the first dumb public thing I've seen Cousins do.
It gives insight into him. It re-raises a red flag first raised late in 2016 season. Going into the last game. When the Redskins needed to beat the Giants to make the playoffs.
I don't have the quotation at hand, but the gist was that this game, if they lost, was no more significant than any other if they didn't make it. He wasn't preparing any differently.
I'm not quite accurate in these quotes but they suggested ever so subtly that Cousins was scared. And preparing himself a very subtle excuse should his team come up short. And it did. And his bad decision, resulting in a bad throw, was one big reason why.
Now he shoves a ref at a charity game?
The red flag here is that Cousins, knowing he can't come up big, treats smaller stuff as just as important as bigger stuff. Bullies like to beat up on the weak. It is always a bad sign for QB when they only play well against lousy teams. When they only score TDs and rack up stats against lousy opponents or after the game's outcome has already been decided.
Cousins should be laughing and having fun, not shoving a ref. It's one thing to chase down a player in the Pro Bowl; this is something different. Different and not good.
The future will show whether these red flags do signal a character weakness, or they are outliers and mistakes, of no deep significance.
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