{"id":168297,"date":"2016-03-03T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=168297"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:06:27","slug":"loverro-kirk-cousins-game-of-tag-pays-off-for-him-but-will-it-for-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=168297","title":{"rendered":"LOVERRO: Kirk Cousins&#8217; game of tag pays off for him, but will it for Redskins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kirk Cousins played Little League baseball. His father, Don Cousins, was his coach.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he, like when I grew up in Little League, had &#8220;Tag Days&#8221; to raise money for teams?<\/p>\n<p>Did a young Cousins stand outside the Piggly Wiggly, wearing his baseball uniform, stopping customers as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/3\/kirk-cousins-signs-franchise-tag-redskins-contract\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/3\/kirk-cousins-signs-franchise-tag-redskins-contract\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"LOVERRO: Kirk Cousins&#039; game of tag pays off for him, but will it for Redskins?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS\/OPINION: Kirk Cousins played Little League baseball. His father, Don Cousins, was his coach. I wonder if he, like when I grew up in Little League,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907616,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168297\/revisions\/1907616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}