Former Washington Football Team QBs lighting up NFL in Week 9 hurt the soul

The Washington Football Team picked quite the week to be on their bye, because the Week 9 slate in the NFL was a rollercoaster.

It was just a figure of speech! We know teams don’t hand-pick their byes.

Seriously, though, of course Washington was at home resting up during the most chaos-filled weekend of the season.

To run through some of the most shocking scores, Dallas lost at home to Denver just days after they traded Von Miller and seemingly gave up on the season. Buffalo scored just six points and lost to Jacksonville.

Arizona rolled over San Francisco without Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins. Cleveland cruised to victory over Cincinnati without Odell Beckham Jr., and finally, Tennessee stuck it to the Rams in primetime with no Derrick Henry.

So many unpredictable scores and Washington wasn’t playing!

To rub more salt in the wound, former Washington quarterbacks Kirk Cousins and Colt McCoy (!) balled out on Sunday. What the heck, man!

Former Washington QBs Kirk Cousins and Colt McCoy are killing it for their current teams.

We’ll start with Cousins, who would look pretty darn good in the Burgundy and Gold right about now, don’t you think? The former fourth-round pick in 2012 posted a 104.3 passer rating in a losing effort to Baltimore, which included throwing the game-tying touchdown with a minute left in regulation.

The Vikings fell to 3-5 on the season, but that is through no fault of Cousins’, who’s completed 68.1% of his passes for 2,140 yards (267.5 per game) and 16 touchdowns to just two interceptions.

Is it crazy to think that Washington would have two, maybe three, more wins if Cousins was still kicking around in Ashburn? By no means is he a perfect QB, but he can sling it with the best of ’em if he has time in the pocket.

Bottom line? It’s okay if you miss Cousins, because we do, too.

Time for McCoy. Did anyone else think we had seen the last of McCoy when he went 0-1 in his lone start for Washington back in 2019? Just when you think he’s made his last outing, he leads the undermanned Cardinals to a road victory against a 49ers team that was desperate to pick up a win.

With no Hopkins, AJ Green, JJ Watt and Chase Edmonds, who left early with an ankle sprain, McCoy went 22-of-26 (84.6%!) for 249 yards and a touchdown, equating to a 119.4 passer rating. Short of throwing for a few more scores — Arizona rushed for three TDs — the Cards couldn’t have asked for a better performance.

To put some perspective on McCoy’s showing, his 84.6% completion percentage was a career-high and the second-highest for a single game in Cardinals history, trialing only Kurt Warner’s 92.4% back in 2009 in a win over Jacksonville!

This would be a different story if Washington played and lost or won in boring fashion. The fact so much pandemonium ensued on their bye week is just a summation of how the season has gone, both on and off the field.

Oh yeah. Before we forget, Dustin Hopkins drilled a game-winning field goal for the Chargers in the final seconds to beat … the Eagles!

This weekend was a perfect storm of chaos. No other way to put it.