So a little bit more from Kirk Cousins from my podcast on Friday. I asked him about some of the players that he played with and then got into some of the coaches he played for.

All right. I want to talk about some of the players that you played with and even some of the coaches that you played for.

I'm going to mention names, and I want the first thing that comes to your mind.

The first one is Jordan Reed.

He's a Hall of Famer if he stays healthy, and if he can be in a system that's, you know,

where they're able to get in the football and all that.

And by system, I guess I mean all the pieces around you that you need.

But he's as talented a player at his position as I've played with, and I play with Justin Jefferson at X receiver.

But when you talk about a Y or an F receiver and a tight end and what you're asking to do,

it was so unique his ability and the mismatches you could get because Justin Jefferson is getting covered by the top corner on the defense.

So while Justin Special, the guy covering him is usually pretty good too.

What really helped with Jordan Reed was he's being defended by safeties, by linebackers, and so his unique abilities are even more

glaring because the guy covered him is not the top corner on the team.

So just the mismatches and the favorable looks we got was just a

difference maker.

And it was hard with the concussions and keeping him healthy, but he was so fun to play with. He's truly, I think, you know, after Sean Taylor, he's probably the greatest what-if in franchise history. You're not the only person to think that he would have become. And I believe one of his last concussions was a preseason. It was. And so when you look at, you know, why are guys sitting in the preseason, it's like, well, things happen like Jordan Reed. Things happen like Michael Vic breaking his legs. So it's just not worth it with how much of a difference maker, a guy like Jordan Reed can be. You know, you've played on some teams that haven't been necessarily good on defense, and even you've

had kicker issues on the teams, but you've really played on teams with very good skill position

players in particular. I mean, Deshawn Jackson, what comes to mind?

Just elite, elite downfield, and it wasn't just the speed. The speed is what people talk about. Sure, he was fast, but there probably were guys in the league who were a little bit faster. What he did was track the ball like a baseball outfielder and so you could be inaccurate, under throw, overthrow, and he had a way to track it and go find it like he's a center fielder. And then he played bigger than his size down the field. So even if it was tight coverage, you had to throw it like he was a center fielder and then he played bigger than his size down the field so even if

it was tight coverage you had to throw it like he was a megatron which was tricky on the eye

because you saw him being smaller but you had to believe that he would play bigger because he kept

showing it again and again in practice where he would just go get the ball as if he was his big

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