{"id":11708,"date":"2014-09-23T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2014-09-23T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:44:12","slug":"kirk-cousins-could-remain-redskins-qb-even-if-robert-griffin-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/23\/kirk-cousins-could-remain-redskins-qb-even-if-robert-griffin-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins could remain Redskins QB even if Robert Griffin returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11087\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11087\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/kirkcousins.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/kirkcousins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/kirkcousins-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Redskins lost Robert Griffin III in their second game of the season. While Griffin is expected to return from his ankle injury in 6-8 weeks there is no guarantee that he will return to the starting quarterback role.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins has filled in well since Griffin went down and the truth is the Redskins offensive gameplan fits a pocket passer like Cousins better than it does a scrambler like Griffin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Jay Gruden on whether Cousins can win starting job permanently with RG3 injured: &#8220;Crazy things can happen.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Redskins?src=hash\">#Redskins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash\">#Giants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jordan Raanan (@JordanRaanan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanRaanan\/status\/514429409923960832\">September 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over his two games of work Cousins has completed 64.2 percent of his passes for 677 yards with five touchdowns and an interception Cousins is coming of a impressive outing against the Eagles in which he was 30-of-48 for 427 yards with three touchdowns and an interception.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins may have struggled to finish out the 2013 season but those playing fantasy football will want to ride him while he is hot right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Redskins lost Robert Griffin III in their second game of the season. While Griffin is expected to return from his ankle injury in 6-8 weeks there is no guarantee that he will return to the starting quarterback role. Kirk Cousins has filled in well since Griffin went down and the truth is the Redskins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,197,216,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kirk-cousins","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}