{"id":7983,"date":"2013-12-29T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2013-12-29T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T22:05:45","slug":"kirk-cousins-trade-value-plummets-with-another-stinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/29\/kirk-cousins-trade-value-plummets-with-another-stinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins trade value plummets with another stinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/kirkcousins.jpg\" alt=\"kirkcousins\" width=\"594\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/kirkcousins.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/kirkcousins-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/kirkcousins-50x31.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/kirkcousins-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nRemember when Kirk Cousins was considered worth a second-round pick?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230;. that is the case with backup quarterbacks. They are considered better the less they play.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s season finale against the New York Giants the second-year Cousins was a mere 10-of-49 for 169 yards and two interceptions. The Redskins lost to fall to 3-13 earning the St. Louis Rams the second draft pick of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins was just 69-of-130 passes (53.0 percent) for 747 yards with four touchdowns and five interceptions during the 2013 season. After a good showing against the Atlanta Falcons three weeks ago, Cousins put up two poor showings against Dallas and New York.<\/p>\n<p>The poor showing from Cousins should keep him as the clipboard holder in Washington for 2014 even if Mike Shanahan gets fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Kirk Cousins was considered worth a second-round pick? Yeah&#8230;. that is the case with backup quarterbacks. They are considered better the less they play. In Sunday&#8217;s season finale against the New York Giants the second-year Cousins was a mere 10-of-49 for 169 yards and two interceptions. The Redskins lost to fall to 3-13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}