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With 24 completions in Sunday’s 24-21 win over the Bears, Kirk Cousins moved past Norm Snead, Eddie LeBaron, Mark Brunell and Brad Johnson into ninth place on the Redskins’ career completions list. Ninth place, all-time — 84 seasons of Redskins football. Life comes at you fast.

Cousins (554 career completions) likely won’t pass Robert Griffin III (679 career completions) for No. 8 on the list until next year, but with three games remaining, several franchise single-season records are within Cousins’s reach.

[The Redskins aren’t an embarrassment. That’s a start.]

Most Completions

Cousins has 314 completions, fourth-most in a single season in franchise history. With 14 more completions, he will pass 2008 Jason Campbell (315 completions), 1999 Brad Johnson (316) and 2009 Campbell (327) for the No. 1 spot. What’s more, Cousins has fewer pass attempts (454) than everyone else in the top 10.

Completion Percentage

Cousins is on pace to break Griffin’s Redskins single-season record for completion percentage (65.65) among quarterbacks who made at least 10 starts. Cousins’s 69.16 completion percentage ranks first in the NFL among qualified starters. He has a chance to surpass Sammy Baugh’s 70.33 completion percentage in 1945, which came on 182 attempts over eight starts.

Most Passing Attempts

Cousins has averaged 34.9 attempts per game and is on pace to finish the season with 558 attempts, which would break Jay Schroeder’s record of 541 attempts in 1986.

Most Passing Yards

Cousins’s 3,306 passing yards through 13 games ranks 13th on the Redskins’ single-season list. At his current pace, Cousins would finish the season with 4,068 yards, second only to Schroeder’s 4,109 yards in 1986. Four of Cousins’s five 300-yard games this season have come since Week 7 and he’s averaged 269 yards passing per game during that stretch. If he continues that pace over the next three games, he will break Schroeder’s mark. Not bad for a supposed game manager.

[Jay Gruden on Cousins’s ‘pretty dang impressive’ performance]

Most Passing Yards Per Game

This one’s a long shot. Cousins has averaged 256.8 yards passing per game this season, which ranks fifth in Redskins history among quarterbacks who made at least 10 starts. He would need to average 334 yards passing per game over the next three weeks to break Mark Rypien’s record of 269.1 yards per game in 14 starts in 1989. Donovan McNabb was averaging 259.8 yards passing per game — and on pace to break Schroeder’s record for passing yards in a season — before he was benched for Rex Grossman with three games remaining in the 2010 season.

Most Rushing Touchdowns

Cousins’s three-yard scamper on a zone-read keeper in Sunday’s win was his fourth rushing touchdown of the season. That ties him with Joe Theismann and LeBaron for third-most in Redskins single-season history. Cliff Battles had five and six rushing touchdowns in 1937 and 1934, respectively. Griffin’s Redskins record seven rushing touchdowns in 2012 appears safe, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Cousins finds the end zone with his feet a few more times this year. He might be Washington’s best running option at this point.

SkinsJock wrote:any of the kissing cousins

SkinsJock wrote:this just in from John Keim ...

To this point, the Redskins have been pleased and consider his overall play “solid.”

“We’re still in the evaluation process, but I’m tickled to death to see how much he’s progressed,” Redskins coach Jay Gruden said. “You can see his confidence just slowly become more of a factor for him in a good way. He’s still learning, man. He’s still fighting through some things. We’re still coaching the heck out of him, but I like where he’s going. I like what he’s about, what he represents as a player and as a person. Well go from there.”

They’ve been pleased with how he’s cut down on interceptions, ranking 18th in the NFL in interception percentage per attempt at 2.4. Before this season, he threw a pick on 4.7 percent of his attempts. Over the last seven games he’s thrown 12 touchdowns to only three interceptions. In the first six games, he threw six touchdowns and eight interceptions.

But along with the decreased interceptions have come increased sack totals. He’s been sacked 14 times in the last five games and 16 in the last seven.

not trying to upset any of the kissing cousins, but this seems like a fair analysis ...

riggofan wrote: .. Seems fair. What's to be upset about in here?

Much rather see Cousins take a coverage sack than throw a bad interception.

I've defined clutch situations as fourth quarters and overtimes when the score was tied or the quarterback's team trailed by one score (eight or fewer points). With an assist from Hank Gargiulo of ESPN Stats & Information, I then focused on the 30 quarterbacks with more than 30 action plays in those situations (action plays are most plays other than handoffs). Newton came out No. 1 this season with a 97.0 QBR score in these situations.

SkinsJock wrote:Cousins has improved as both a QB and leader of the offense here and he's put himself in a great position to get a really good salary/contract

good for him

PulpExposure wrote:

SkinsJock wrote:any of the kissing cousins

Please stop that. It's not funny.

riggofan wrote:

PulpExposure wrote:

SkinsJock wrote:any of the kissing cousins

Please stop that. It's not funny.

Yeah man, I was going to ask you stop that too. Painful. Hurts my bones every time I read it.

SkinsJock wrote:done

cowboykillerzRGiii wrote:I think as a fan base (myself included) we tend to over analyze the qb play, for better and worse. EVERY QB has bad plays, misses reads, gets sacked, throws picks, throws pick 6s, losses games etc.. it's part of the game. As his mistakes become less frequent and less blatant he has won me over.

Chris Luva Luva wrote:I don't think a game manager is what Kirk is. I think it's a part of who he is. He still has yet to enter an off-season as a starter and benefit from a playbook/offense that is catered to him. I don't believe we've seen his full potential, he could be a very good QB with in time. He's already shown an ability on multiple occassions to mount a game winning/leading comeback. So, while he's shown the traits of a manager. I think that's selling him short.

riggofan wrote:Yeah we'll see, CLL. But your comment about the off season work seems right on point to me.

SkinsJock wrote:Kirk Cousins was a backup QB who had a problem of turning the ball over & playing tentatively

SkinsJock wrote: possibly because he was nervous about turning the ball over - over the course of the season & without the fear of being replaced like he was last year

SkinsJock wrote:Kirk Cousins has clearly shown that he has improved as a QB and a leader of the offense

SkinsJock wrote:Kirk Cousins is continuing to improve and can do even better

SkinsJock wrote:Jay Gruden and the game planning needs to reward him with some better play calling

Chris Luva Luva wrote:

SkinsJock wrote:Jay Gruden and the game planning needs to reward him with some better play calling

By trusting him, as you stated earlier.

riggofan wrote:Do you guys think its possible though that Gruden has protected Cousins with his play calling this season to a certain extent?

riggofan wrote:Gruden has definitely been protective/defensive of Cousins in press conferences this year. Its almost been laughable at times.

riggofan wrote:My point is that I think those two have been walking a fine line all season because of the RG3/QB situation and Gruden's own shaky status. Isn't it possible that the play calling has been more conservative as a result of that?

riggofan wrote:My point is that I think those two have been walking a fine line all season because of the RG3/QB situation and Gruden's own shaky status. Isn't it possible that the play calling has been more conservative as a result of that?