Cousins Focusing On Details

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins says you’re looking at the game wrong. It’s not as much about the score as the way the team is playing that matters more.

- Rick Snider

“I think this is a great case study in the way that the outside thinks versus the way that I think,” he said. “And I totally understand from covering the team, fan base perspective, the emotional roller coaster, I understand that a two-minute drill on the road against a good football team, finding a way to win – it’s exciting and it’s fun and it gets the juices going.

“I’m a little bit more process-oriented and there have been games where I’ve thrown for a lot of yards and felt like I played nearly flawlessly, but we lost. And I walk away saying, ‘I’m getting better, I’m doing really good things, I’m about the process and my process was really good today. I can’t control the outcome but the process was really good.’

“But the noise on the outside is, ‘He’s got to get better, he’s not doing enough, we didn’t come away with the win.’ So I’ve learned to ignore outcomes at times. . . . I don’t like to get too outcome-focused.”