{"id":13562,"date":"2014-12-29T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2014-12-29T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:35:22","slug":"kirk-cousins-wants-out-of-washington-if-robert-griffin-named-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/29\/kirk-cousins-wants-out-of-washington-if-robert-griffin-named-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins wants out of Washington if Robert Griffin named starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10869\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nKirk Cousins began the 2014 season as the backup for the Redskins, by the time the year was over he was third on the depth chart at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins replaced an injured Robert Griffin III early in the year and put together six strong quarters before defenses figured him out. His struggles were well documented this year &#8211; winning just one of five games as a starter &#8211; and third string Colt McCoy bypassed him by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Kirk Cousins says that if Redskins name RG3 starting QB he would like to be traded. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Redskins?src=hash\">#Redskins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dianna Marie Russini (@NBCdianna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCdianna\/status\/549609500660215808\">December 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Cousins either thinks more of himself or simply is tired of the dog and pony show in Washington. He wants out requesting a trade if Griffin is named the teams starter. Given Cousins struggles over the last two seasons the Redskins would be fortunate to pick up a seventh round pick for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins began the 2014 season as the backup for the Redskins, by the time the year was over he was third on the depth chart at quarterback. Cousins replaced an injured Robert Griffin III early in the year and put together six strong quarters before defenses figured him out. His struggles were well documented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[197,216,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kirk-cousins","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","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=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13563,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}