If Kirk Cousins is fool's good, then Robert Griffin III still is lead weight.
Cousins' play Sunday during the Redskins' 34-20 loss to the Jets has spurred calls for his ouster at starting quarterback. Surprisingly absent in those criticisms of Cousins is any rally cry for RG3 to return as the team's starter.
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"Cousins is fool's gold. He looks so shiny bright, right up until he disappoints you," Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post wrote. "Cousins has played enough to establish who he is as an NFL quarterback right now. He's a guy who is enticing to gamble on, but he doesn't pay off."
Cousins completed 25-of-43 passes for 196 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions in the loss that dropped Washington to 2-4 on the season. A reporter asked Redskins coach Jay Gruden whether Cousins was still the quarterback for the rest of the season.
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"Yeah," Gruden said, according to NFL.com. "That's the intent."
Griffin was active for the first time this season on Sunday, NFL.com added. But in coming up with an alternate plan, both the Washington Post and Comcast Sports Net Mid-Atlantic Redskins analyst Brian Mitchell both overlooked Griffin, the former Heisman Trophy winner, for the Redskins' third-string quarterback, according to 247sports.com.
"There were all kinds of unspokens after the word 'intent,'" Jenkins wrote. "That's the intent -- unless Gruden gets fired before the season is over for backing the wrong guy. That's the intent -- unless Cousins has another two-interception game again next week. That's the intent -- unless the owner and general manager get impatient and force a change to Colt McCoy."
Mitchell gives the nod to McCoy in the absence of a quarterback now on the Redskins roster that project's to be the team's quarterback of the future.
"And right now, they are faced with one quarterback that's got $16.2 million deal (Griffin) if he gets injured," said Mitchell, a former Redskins running back. "Which we know, if he runs, he's going to get injured. The other quarterback who's sitting there (McCoy), who won the biggest game for this team in the last two years against the Dallas Cowboys.
"Should he get a chance? Yes. I understand we can go with a quarterback and move forward. If I draft a quarterback first pick overall and we already have a team around him, you're to let every chance happen because you want that guy to feel that this is your future no matter what.
"There's nobody on this team like that right now."
And little chance Griffin will get another chance to prove his critics wrong.
"Even Griffin knew that being in uniform was a mere wardrobe change -- there was no expectation he was going to get on the field as a quarterback," NFL.com reported.
"I'm here to support the team," he told NFL.com. "Not expecting anything. It's not my call. I was not expecting it."
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