So you are Kirk Cousins. You want to be an NFL starting quarterback. The problem is that the team that selected you just traded up in the 2012 NFL draft giving up more than anyone in history to draft the best athlete as a quarterback since Michael Vick.
You have had nothing but challenges and people questioning you throughout your college years. Since the day you’ve been drafted everyone in the US but the Shanahan’s and a few fans questioned why you were even drafted by the Washington Redskins in round 4 of the 2012 NFL draft. So you must prove people wrong again. You aren’t very outspoken like Robert Griffin III, you don’t have TV commercials or the media all over your every word. You are a more quiet leader.
Throughout training camp and the preseason you proved that you could play and be a viable back up in the NFL. So much so that a 10 year veteran who was the starting quarterback the prior year was made inactive week 1 so you could go in if need be.
Week 14 comes around and in the fourth quarter at home versus the Baltimore Ravens the inevitable happened, Robert Griffin III got hurt for the second time this season, only this time it looked like a serious knee injury.
It’s now the “It’s your time to shine”. You finish the job, throwing a touchdown pass and running in a two point conversion and getting the team in position in overtime so Kai Forbath could kick the game winning field goal.
You play the next week and beat the Cleveland browns in Cleveland to keep the winning streak and playoff run alive for your football team. Then Robert Griffin III comes back and leads us to the playoffs and plays well in the first quarter of the wild card playoff game.
You wonder, are you ever going to get a real chance to live out your dreams and have a true chance to start in the NFL?
Unfortunately reports are Robert Griffin III tore his ACL and LCL in the fourth quarter of the wild card game. If these reports are true Robert could miss most of, if not all of the 2013 NFL season.
This is your time to shine again! This is Kirk Cousins time to prove his doubters wrong, to prove that selecting him in the 2012 draft after the team selected RGIII was the right selection. Through unfortunate injury to his friend and teammate Robert, Kirk has been given a chance to lead the team and showcase his skills to other franchises so in the future he may have a chance to start somewhere in the NFL.
Best of luck Captain Kirk. No matter what the diagnosis is in the next two days with Robert’s knee, Redskins Nation is 100% behind you and we wish you the best.
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Partial tears in both his ACL & LCL, Recovery time is right round 8 months. I light of old men like Ray Lewis coming back from torn triceps in the same year.
Hopefully RGIII will be ready for 2013 right on time. And it is WAY to soon to be throwing the reigns Kirk’s way.
Not really giving Kirk the reigns here, just saying we should be prepared for it and that if Rg3 can’t start the season, we need to support Kirk.
I hope you are right about the injury but the truths is we don’t know for sure yet and another truth is that almost all acl injuries are “partial tears
Also, Robert has a previous history with this knee. He tore his ACL in at Baylor in the same knee. He also had a knee sprain prior to this most recent “partial tears” or what have you. I’ve heard that 8 months is really, really optimistic. It is more a 12 to 18 month injury. It has something to do with how the ligaments are positioned and needed. Basically I believe the LCL is more important than the MCL, so when players like Kory L and Welker made it back within a year, their injury wasn’t as serious.
Let’s hope RG3 is back though, for sure. We all want that, but we don’t want him back till he’s 100%, we don’t want to see the RG3 we’ve seen the past three weeks who looked like at any time he tear the whole knee up and eventually he did because it was never stable.
Did you guys realize that RG3 didn’t want to wear the most supportive really bulky brace that like Sanchez wears and most players wear after they tear their knees up? He chose to wear one that was less restrictive.
That sucks.
I think the Redskins should be trying to get Tebow. He should be converted to Fullback where he could and would be used as running and passing threat. Use him along with Morris at halfback and Cousins as the drop back passer. Then when Griffin comes back we would have an amazing athletic backfield that would pose all kinds of options and drive defenses crazy.
Nope. Ill stick with Captain Kirk and the accuracy, knowledge and levelheadedness he will bring to this offense. We don’t need a Tebow Circus in DC. Jacksonville Ned’s that
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/48001/rg-iii-injury-qa-with-stephania-bell
Reading this article doesn’t make me feel good…
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Any time you have a second insult to a knee, it’s less favorable than the first, and having another procedure is less ideal. I don’t know, when he had his original reconstruction, whether they used his patellar tendon (to repair the ACL). But if they did use it, obviously they can’t use it again, so what do they do? Do they use his other patellar tendon? Do they use a hamstring graft? That would have a lot to do with his recovery time. And then there’s the issue of whether there’s any cartilage damage in the knee as a result of this injury. When you’re talking about the life span of his knee, that’s going to be one of the big elements — not just the ligament, but how healthy is the joint itself?
The first thing is, what’s the extent of the damage inside his knee, and then are there other aspects of the joint or capsule that need to be addressed. With an LCL injury, you worry about that back corner of the knee, what we call the posterolateral corner, which is where the LCL is. When you suffer an injury to anything in that complex, it can threaten the overall stability of the knee. Your biggest concern is, is that corner intact? Is it stable? Because if it’s not, there’s more you have to deal with. RG III being the athlete that he is, that works in his favor. He’s young, he’s fit, he’s highly motivated, and those are all positives. The part we don’t know is the anatomy part, which is the part he has no control over.
Man, that isn’t sounding good.
See the problem is his previous knee injury from 09. He’ll be back no doubt but its going to take more time than most think.
Adrian Peterson, Welker, Kory L etc, etc had relatively clean knees with no prior major surgery. Rg3 has had reconstructive knee surgery already in 09
Ok you guys spelled “reins” wrong. Kirk is taking the reins. King Robert’s “reign” is a different concept and Kirk will be made Lord Protector of the reign or Steward of the King. They do need to get Tebow or Mike Vick. You need two mobile QBs if you’re gonna play this risky offense. Grossman needs to hang around too. Kirk is the starter but we all know he’s getting traded. We won’t see RG3 until early Nov and he’ll probably back up Kirk next year. When RG3 comes back Grossman will be released. The order will be Cousins, Tebow/Vick, RG3.
You may be a better speller than “me” lol, I did that just for you buddy but in no way shape or form does this team need a circus like the tim Tebow show nor an overrated often injured 10 year older version of rg3 who’s going to cost $. They need to just roll with Kirk and keep Grossman as the #2. Rg3 should be PUP’d and be activated when he’s ready to go. It could be Oct, could be nov as you suggested. Rg3 should come back and start if Cousins doesn’t have this team in playoff contention in Oct/Nov. this is his team, we drafted him to be the franchise qb. This is a perfect time to showcase Cousins’ skills though so we can trade him if rg3 comes back healthy. 2013 is a huge year for Kirk and this team though. Can they repeat last years feat w/o rg3?
That is the 10 million dollar no pressure no diamonds question shall we say.
Agreed, I don’t even know why Tebow/Vick are being discussed.
They are saying just LCL tear but they are saying that’s a longer rehab time than the acl. He could be back this year but I don’t know if he starts the year. Pup him IMO he can be activated week 6 to the 53 man and don’t activate him for a game till he is truly ready to go and make him wear the best brace available this time no matter how restrictive it on to him.
Better than 2 or 3 tears. #PositivePixels
Maybe I am reading this wrong, but doesn’t it seem like this means the reconstructed ACL is torn as well?
https://twitter.com/mortreport/status/288888767199203328
I saw that throughout the night ESPN edited the original report. Dr James Andrews said they repaired his 2009 acl with a graft (don’t know of what though) and its completely tore. Both the LCL and ACL are completely tore. Sports center LA had a sports doctor on and he said its an 8 to 10 month recovery but the fact that this is his second tear makes things more complicated. Like I said before, different case than Jenkins, AD, Kory L, Welker, Brady etc, etc. I think they need to PUP him in August and take this extremely slow, be very cautious with his knee. We don’t want them rushing him back like we did with Malcolm Kelly. Pup him and that puts us into the middle of October, only activate him when he’s ready on game days.
If Kirk, Morris and a healthy D/improved secondary has us in playoff contention you don’t play RG3 till he’s definitely 100% in Nov.
Also, make him wear that big bulky brace. Don’t let him get away with wearing the one that is a little else restrictive like he did the last month.
Sad…
rg3 is only 22 and this will be his second knee reconstruction of his right knee 