With the New Year under way, it’s time to check off some items on my “TIDU List” — Things I Don’t Understand:
How Kirk Cousins can be elsewhere next season: We’ll forget that his final pass of 2016 was a completion to Jordan Reed (whose lateral was returned for a touchdown). It’s Cousins’ next-to-last pass — a defeat-clinching interception — that will be remembered and used as evidence against his case for a long-term contract. He played poorly in a couple of must-win games and posted slight decreases in several categories compared to 2015, but how can this franchise contemplate letting Cousins walk?