Kirk Cousins: Thursday Night's Stone Cold Assassin (NFC, playoffs, win)
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On Thursday Nights (since arriving in Minnesota) Kirk Cousins' is 3 - 0, completing 79% of his passes, with 6 touchdowns, 1 interception and 1,006 yards passing.
On Thursday Nights (since arriving in Minnesota) Kirk Cousins' is 3 - 0, completing 79% of his passes, with 6 touchdowns, 1 interception and 1,006 yards passing.
Yup.. threw for 300 yards last night.
I also double-checked his Thursday night record, he's now 4-5. Which is ok, but not nearly as bad as the jackals in sports media make it seem. And those 5 losses, were when Cousins was on bad Washington teams. I feel the media has always been hard on Cousins.
Since yi found that, what are his stats in the other time slots?
His real only terrible night is Monday. he's 2 - 10, started out 0 - 9 but has won 2 of his last 3 games...both wins coming against Chicago strangely (or not) enough. I think he's 4 - 5 on Sunday nights at this point, tho I suspect his record is better with Minnesota.
This site (from Dec, '21, he has since lost to GB (Sunday) and PHL (Monday) and beat NE (Thurs)) goes into more depth and makes mention of Cousins personal performance in prime time games...
Judging a QB based solely on wins and losses is an extremely unfair thing to do, and Cousins’ prime-time record exemplifies that. Among those QBs to have thrown more than 500 pass attempts in prime time since the merger, Cousins has the seventh-best passer rating in those games. The only players to have a better passer rating are Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, Steve Young, and Peyton Manning.
In his 25 career prime-time starts, Cousins has a 67.8% completion rate, which is second-best behind only Brees. The rest of his numbers read as 7,061 passing yards, 45 touchdowns, and 20 interceptions. In terms of yards per pass attempt, Cousins ranks 10th at 7.66, just narrowly behind Roethlisberger at 7.69.
While Cousins' overall prime time record does warrant some scrutiny he's nowhere close to the battle currently underway for the King of Prime Time Failure currently underway between Andy Dalton (.240 / 6 - 19) and Kerry Collins (.238 / 5-16). It appears likely that Dalton will get a shot a taking the crown of failure away from Collins when the Saints play Tampa a week from Monday. A loss would drop Dalton's win pctg. to .230 (6 - 20).
The New Orleans Saints have been trying to stay afloat in the NFC South race with Andy Dalton at quarterback, yet the veteran signal-caller will be attempting to end a record that isn't worth bragging about. Dalton is scheduled to start in Thursday night's showdown against the Arizona Cardinals, not looking to extend his place in the NFL record books.
Dalton has lost 11 straight prime-time road matchups, the longest streak for any quarterback since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. The Saints quarterback has also lost lost five straight prime-time games by 17-plus points -- also the longest streak by any QB since 1970.
^note, Dalton did lose to Arizona after this to extend his record road losing streak to 12 games, with a chance for 13 upcoming in Tampa.
He beat a pretty solid defense in the Patriots. Congrats to him. Cousins really utilized his playmakers to the extent to which he needed them. Jefferson and Cook create so many match up issues for opposing defenses.
Heading into 2022, Cousins did have a pretty abysmal 10 - 40 record against teams with winning records for his career, but has gone 4 - 2 so far this season. Still a much better record than Matt Stafford at 11 - 72!
Only 5 current QBs have >.500 results against teams with winning records>
.625 Lamar Jackson (10 - 6)
.625 Patrick Mahomes (10 - 6) (op note- seems low as to # of games. Maybe these numbers are reg season only?)
.611 Tom Brady (74 - 47)
.565 Jimmy Garoppolo (13 - 10)
.542 Russell Wilson (32 - 27)
^as of 9-30-2022 (these totals will have changed slightly by this time)
Last edited by Shawn Ford; 11-27-2022 at 10:47 AM..
Reason: switched presentation from a first person peripheral to a Third-person omniscient point-of-view.
True. At the end of the day the only success that matters is in the postseason.
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