Kirk Cousins Has a Higher Ceiling Than White-Dimming Analysts Think

http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/washington-redskins/sports-junkies-everything-will-crumble-if-redskins-lose-kirk-cousins-free-agency-kyle-shanahan

Everything will crumble if Cousins goes, guy says. Yep. They'll be a 5-6 win team instead of a 10-win team. Cousins is that rare QB who might actually have that higher ceiling than he's shown. He has only played two seasons. He has set passing records in those. But no, let's dump him and find something better that quite literally does not exist.

Not to mention - as this guy says - he's not going to cause off-the-field problems. Add to that, he stays healthy. Everything points to one conclusion, and in the other weighing pan is that he hasn't played well in big games. If you're rational you have to bet on Cousins.

Cousins is textbook example of the underrating of whiteness. If Cousins were black, the mouths that be would be screaming racism about Redskins' foot dragging. They'd be yelping to the moon about what a high potential Cousins has, how he's just about to enter the absolute center-cut pork chop years of his career. Who truly knows what he can do? Except pass for more yards than pretty much anyone?

But here's where the second antiwhite prejudice kicks in. Not only do blacks have higher ceilings than whites by virtue of being black, their success is attributed to their own efforts, not the receivers and backs supporting them, Compare Dak Prescott with Kirk Cousins. Cousins' success is attributed to his great receivers far more than Prescott's is attributed to his. But Prescott has a great RB, receivers and OL, whereas Cousins only has a great OL and receivers.

Just watch this year: Prescott will fall off significantly. That's my prediction. Cousins will have slightly lower numbers but better overall performance.

Cousins is a bit hinky or gun-shy. The guy in article says he got spooked early in 2016 and it lasted all year. There might be something to that. Because in 2015, he was fine in red zone. But it's also just the growing pains of getting used to starting games himself, getting repetitions with the main plays, and working with the people on his team, including the playcaller and the changing roster of running backs.

The Redskins are very close to being one of the top five teams, and the idea that they are even considering not signing their already statistically elite QB to a long-term contract is absurd.

Cousins studies things. He will see that he must run more often. And that he must panic less.

How much do you want to bet against him being capable of achieving these improvements?

How many bright young QBs have peaked before their third full season as starting QB? Very few if any. That means Cousins' best years, his best play, are still in front of him. Looking back, people will shake their heads that resigning him was ever under serious debate.

But typing this on the first of February 2017, I can assure you that it was.