Here's why Kyle Shanahan should be high on Rams' coaching search listBy VINCENT BONSIGNORE / STAFF COLUMNIST
Kirk Cousins didn’t get much playing time as a rookie quarterback with Washington in 2012.
As a lowly fourth-round pick playing for a team that just invested three first-round draft picks to move in position to draft Robert Griffin III second overall, he was destined to be a sideline mainstay.
Especially with RG3 on his way to a Rookie of the Year season while pushing Washington to the playoffs,
As professionally frustrating as that season might have been, it wasn’t a total waste for Cousins, who eventually supplanted RG3 and now has them on the brink of the playoffs.
In fact, the insight he gained observing then Washington offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan provided a class study in game-planning and play-calling. The lessons from which Cousins still marvels at to this day.
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