Updating Kirk Cousins' career numbers
by KJ@theonlycolors on Sep 20, 2009 8:34 AM CDT
in Michigan State Spartans Football
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Up-to-the-minute career passing statistics for Kirk Cousins:
- 80-113 for 959 yards
- 70.8% completion%
- 8.5 yards/attempt
- 7 touchdown passes
. . . and one interception.
(Correction: Cousins threw an INT last season, too. Makes the presentation of the numbers somewhat less dramatic. Nuts.)
At least one observer continues to be impressed with Cousins' poise:
"A quarterback is judged by wins and losses and how he plays at crunch time," he said. "And right now I’m 1-2 as a starter and I made a critical error at crunch time."
More:
"It hurts. I'm hurting right now," Cousins said Saturday outside Michigan State's locker room after the Spartans' 33-30 loss to the Irish. "(But) it's part of the job, part of what you deal with. I'm a man, I'll take it. I just have to learn from it and keep my head up."
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I'm big on Cousins
The biggest number for me is 2.
After this season he has 2 more years of eiligibility. He should develop in to just a stud of a QB.
That int
that was really rough. Cousins has clearly outperformed Nichol, but it’s the sort of thing that makes me wonder if Nichol deserves a shot at the game if we’re in a close one.
Another positive note: combined, our QBs have already thrown about as many TDs as Hoyer did all of last year. I’m really happy with Treadwell right now.
I am very unhappy with our defense right now.
Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
My initial reaction was to look to Nichol, as well ...
…But reason took hold and the momentary panic subsided. When your new starting QB is young and inexperienced, he’ll typically lose you at least 1 game. Hopefully, this was Cousins’ “1”. He’s a solid player and will only get better as time goes on.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street
He's going to be really good
Cousins is much better then I thought he would be. Besides those last 2 throws he played a great game and has had a very good season. He’s going to make mistakes occasionally since he’s only a sophmore, but he’s already way better then Hoyer ever was. Those stats you posted up there don’t lie…that completion percentage is great, especially when it’s paired with a high YPA and very good TD/INT ratio. You have to be impressed with the things we here about the guy off the field too…he’s a sophmore captain, he manned up to his mistakes at the end of the game, and his teammates rave about him.
Additional supporting stats
He currently is 14th in the country in passer rating at 164.3. Hoyer was 93rd (111.5) in 2008 and 49th in 2007 (131.9).
Cousins has also only taken 1 sack.
Random Thoughts on Game and Rest of Season
- Caper seems to improve a bit every game. He was running over and through multiple defenders yesterday. I’d like to see him continue to get a higher percentage of the carries, but our run game is still a concern due to the lack of holes from the O-line.
- I hope to see more 3 WR sets…White, Dell, and Cunningham will cause a lot of match-up issues, especially with an accurate Cousins throwing them the ball.
- Unfortunately it seems our defense will be an issue all season. The lack of pressure from the front 4 will continue to be an issue in the run and passing game. Add in that with the dissapointing play of the secondary to date and we’ll struggle against good offenses.
- The on-side kick from last week, the drop from Rucker on the easy INT in the 4th and the missed pass on the wide open Caper will haunt me the rest of the season.
- However, even with the 1-2 record I’m still happy with direction of this team. There is a lot of young talent on this team…last year we had a top 15 recruiting class and this year we are looking at a top 20 one. If we continue to recruit like that our teams will get better over the next couple years.
Just thinking...
Is it too early or too panicky to start thinking about upgrading at fefensive coordinator? I don’t think we are going to get to the next level with Narduzzi.
by CPT Hoolie on Sep 20, 2009 11:48 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
Some thoughts from me:
CPT, I think it is too early to panic/think about wanting a new D-coordinator than Narduzzi. I think it’s more the players than it is the scheme thus far.
I agree with nearly all of Stones comment(s). Does anyone have a replay of the Rucker missed INT? Live on TV it looked way over his head for him to come down with, but NBC never showed a replay of it, so I don’t know.
And now at Beyond the Boxscore and Project Prospect!
Disagree completely
The biggest issue personnel wise is the D-line, yet it’s our secondary, who returned so many people, that has looked bad. I think that’s on schemes.
Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Agree completely
The problem with the pass defense/secondary has got to be schematic. These are by-and-large the same talented players from last year, who performed well and now have all that experience under their belts. IMO, it looks like opposing offensive coordinators have figured out Narduzzi’s defense and have made adjustments, and he’s slow to now make adjustments himself.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street
I remember thinking...
….that it looked like an arm-punt by Jimmah. I’ll have to look at it again, but in my nightmares the last 2 nights Rucker tried to field it like a punt and it just popped through his hands.
2 career INTs for Cousins
Post corrected. Thanks, Spartan-Football.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Sep 21, 2009 7:27 AM CDT reply actions
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