Brandon Marshall knew more than a year ago that Kirk Cousins was “the real deal.” For a day, Cousins was his quarterback and, for a day, Marshall got a taste of what could be in Denver.
Sort of.
“I played in a flag football game with him at the Super Bowl,” the Broncos’ linebacker said after the Broncos fell to the Redskins in Washington late last season. “It was the Celebrity Sweat Flag Football Game. He was our quarterback, I was playing receiver and just seeing him in the huddle — it’s a flag football game, but he’s intense, calling the plays out, he’s really just slinging ball.