{"id":49050,"date":"2015-08-31T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=49050"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:24:03","slug":"with-griffin-ailing-redskins-gruden-says-its-kirk-cousins-team-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=49050","title":{"rendered":"With Griffin ailing, Redskins&#8217; Gruden says it&#8217;s Kirk Cousins&#8217; team now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49051\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kirkcousins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49051\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kirkcousins-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Kirk Cousins.\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirk Cousins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kirk Cousins is getting another shot.<\/p>\n<p>Redskins head coach Jay Gruden on Monday said that Cousins, the fourth-year Michigan State product, will be the team\u2019s starting quarterback for the 2015 season, beginning Week 1 against the Miami Dolphins Sept. 13 at FedExField.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all three quarterbacks should be commeded for their efforts, their willingness to get better,\u201d Gruden told reporters after Monday\u2019s practice at Redskins Park. \u201cBut when it\u2019s all said and done after all the film that we\u2019ve gone through, all the offseason activity, all the training camp footage, we feel that at this time, Kirk Cousins gives us the best chance to win and that\u2019s where we\u2019re going. &#8230; It&#8217;s Kirk&#8217;s team.\u201d &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redskins.com\/news-and-events\/article-1\/Kirk-Cousins-Named-Redskins-Starting-Quarterback\/028b9a2c-6ff7-4c12-aa80-34d6fbe0144e\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Cousins is getting another shot. Redskins head coach Jay Gruden on Monday said that Cousins, the fourth-year Michigan State product, will be the team\u2019s&#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-49050","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\/49050","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=49050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49052,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49050\/revisions\/49052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}