Kirk Cousins entered a flow state when he was answering this question 🤣 #nfl #atlantafalcons

Kirk Cousins entered a flow state when he was answering this question 🤣 #nfl #atlantafalcons

you follow this week’s conversation about progression versus coverage reads and all that? >> No, but I’d love to get into it. I I can get on this soap box if you want me to. Like I can get on this >> because I live the transfer. I lived the the jump, >> right? So I came into the league even at Michigan State it was you see coverage and you pick a side and you basically take five eligibles down to two down to your check down and so you cut the field in half and it was I got single high I’m going you know outside the red line to inside to my back and you’re really only thinking about three eligibles because the other two over here were meant for split safety and I got single high and so it kind of protected you and then sometimes you would alert that other side if you got pressure so you’d be like I’m working this route versus split safety or pressure if I get single high no pressure then I work the other side. So that was everything was, you know, single high, split safety, pressure, quarters, off, bump, man zone, all these things. But what happened was defenses got so good at disguising it that I would be so stressed going into games going, the whole game plan is built on is it single high or split safety and I can’t see if it’s single high or split safety. Like these defenses are just making it money until I’m three steps into my drop. So it’s coaches started to realize like if we ask the quarterback to do that, it’s it’s going to be really hard because defenses know that’s the game we’re playing. They’re not going to let us play it. So then it started to become let’s just give you career progressions and let’s just go 1 2 3 4 5 and then um you know that has it pros and cons. I remember when Kevin McConn was bringing a lot of progression reads back to him with me from LA back to Minnesota. It was like whoa like I got to get back to the dagger backside after already exhausting this progression. Like that’s a lot. I mean my mind like I’m used to kind of simplifying it and cutting the field in half. So you know had to kind of work through that and get to where that was more natural and then there’s a lot of positives of it too where you’re not stressing as much during the week about what if I can’t see coverage because you say well it’s okay I don’t have to see coverage. You know seeing it can be a benefit but it’s more after the snap where are they going and I can just kind of progress through. But there’s no doubt with the way the pass rush is if you truly try to go one three four five you’re going to get sack fumbled a lot. So, there’s still a level of, yeah, it’s pure progression, but like I gotta rule him out pretty quick here so I can get to the backside because that guy’s coming around the hump

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