[Senator Clay Davis]

Not to defend Cousins at all, because lord knows it's always great fun to dunk on him, but that play call was atrocious. Two options are short of the sticks, including Cook as a bailout behind the line, two guys are running deep patterns, including the best receiver in the league, and only one guy was actually a realistic option to get the first down. The play call assumed Cousins was gonna have time to go through all of his progressions, like somehow the Giants couldn't get pressure on him. It's almost like that play call was made with the idea that O'Connell wants to move on from Cousins, and watching Cousins make such a pathetic attempt will be the ammo he needs, that sneaking out another undeserved win means more Cousins, so better for short term pain for long term gain or something. Otherwise, that is as bad as it gets for a play call.

And yet, if you're Cousins, and you've seen what Jefferson has done all year, how aren't you giving him a chance? Double coverage, triple coverage, eight man coverage, let the man try and make something happen. He's proven he can make catches with absurd degrees of difficulty. Everyone would give you a pass if you threw it up there and it got picked, or batted away, because you trusted the guy who essentially has kept you employed this year. Be interesting to see what the Vikings do, they'll be prime candidates to trade up, Mahomes-style, for Anthony Richardson. But surely yesterday finally sealed Cousins fate as incapable of being anything but, well, a Cousins-tier QB: good enough to get you beat in the playoffs, never good enough to win you anything.