It's time for yet another State of the Cousins address.
Referendums on Kirk Cousins' value as a quarterback have become almost monthly affairs over the last five years. They are often polarizing, partisan showdowns, like local city council meetings about some controversial tax bill or zoning ordinance.
The Cousins haters washed their hands of him sometime before his 27th career loss to opponents with winning records. But NFL teams, like machine politicians, keep rehiring and lavishly paying him. And Cousins, like a clever career legislator with a knack for finding compromises, keeps playing just well enough to confound his critics while never quite living up to the expectations of his supporters.