If the Jets want Kirk Cousins in free agency, they have one selling point.
The Redskins quarterback raved about Jets new offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates in a WFAN interview on Tuesday. Bates worked under Mike Shanahan with the Broncos and later Shanahan drafted Cousins for the Redskins. Both call a similar variation of the West Coast offense.
“They are great football minds and I’ve been very fortunate to have one good coach after the other,” Cousins said from radio row in Minneapolis. “Jeremy Bates does come for that coaching tree, if you will.”
Cousins said he met Bates in 2012 when Bates was tutoring Jay Cutler as the Bears’ quarterback coach.