As Friday Night Lights taught us time and again, football isn’t about football. Football is about life. It’s real, and it’s confusing, and things are being thrown at you all the time, but sometimes you just gotta catch those things and run with them. You know what I’m saying?
Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins suffered a particularly real-life moment today while doing some kind of patter-step, rolly, getty-uppy drill. All of a sudden, in the midst of a tough workout, Kirk found himself caught adrift in the existential miasma of it all. “I don’t know what I’m doing!” Cousins yells, broken up in the staccato of his high knees. We don’t either, Kirk. Just keep grinding.