Colin Cowherd says Kirk Cousins 'just bad' in primetime after he throws for 364 yards, 4 TDs
Despite one of his best games as the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, haters still have it out for Kirk Cousins.
Speaking on his podcast and YouTube channel after Thursday night's 34-28 Vikings loss to the Eagles, Colin Cowherd said Cousins is "just bad" on national television games.
"So I think the Kirk Cousins thing, you know these big TV Thursday Night Monday Night Sunday Night Sunday night games Kirk Cousins is just bad at them, there's no getting around it, he is just bad," Cowherd said.
We're ... not exactly sure what game Cowherd was watching, because Cousins was 31/44 for 364 yards, four touchdowns and zero interceptions.
Being charitable, perhaps Cowherd was simply referring to the "Kirk can't do it on primetime" stereotype in general terms, but to mention it in the context of last night's game is bizarre.
Cousins had the above stat line despite an offensive line that was starting backups at the center and left tackle positions. According to PFF, Cousins was sacked twice, hit six times, hurried eight times while his blockers allowed 16 total pressures on 44 total drop backs Thursday night.
Yes, the Vikings still lost, dropping to 0-2 but to lay the blame all at Kirk Cousins feet is lazy at best. Minnesota fumbled the ball four times Thursday night, only one of those belonged to Cousins – again following some abysmal protection.
The Vikings defense meanwhile let the Eagles to run the ball for a whopping 259 yards all while Jalen Hurts threw for 78-percent accuracy in the Eagles win. Kirk has had his primetime failures in the past, but Thursday sure wasn't one them.
Don't let facts and reality get in the way of a good narrative, though.
Here's the full quote from Cowherd:
"So I think the Kirk Cousins thing, you know these big TV Thursday Night Monday Night Sunday Night Sunday night games Kirk Cousins is just bad at them, there's no getting around it, he is just bad. They call certain players teeth-clenchers, where they get uptight, early in Peyton Manning's career he had a little bit of that where he was really really intense where he wanted another walkthrough another practice. Tony Dungy told a story where Peyton Manning in his career on Saturdays was sort of a family day and get the families out to practice and Peyton was like 'no,' I want up tempo I want practice and Tony would say no we're ok we're in a good space. Peyton was pretty intense early and I thought it hurt him sometimes in big spots early in his career not as much late. I think Kirk's always been that guy, he's got 1 o'clock games at home especially he's money, get him in these standalone spots he's not as good."
