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Kirk Cousins is learning those are two entirely different things.
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those → learn → ?
The Raiders quarterback offered an incredible window into the challenge of playing with an extraordinary talent Sunday, placing Bowers in a conversation with some of the best receivers he has thrown to during his career.
Pierre Garçon.
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he → offer → Garçon
Players whose gifts force a quarterback to reconsider what his eyes are telling him.
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eyes → force → him
Bowers provided two spectacular examples in the Raiders win against the Jets, making an absurd one-handed touchdown catch in traffic, and grabbing another touchdown pass while surrounded by three defenders.
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Bowers → provide → defenders
For most pass catchers, those are reasons to look elsewhere.
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those → look → catchers
For Bowers, who finished Sunday with seven catches for 92 yards to go along with the two scores, they are invitations.
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they → finish → scores
The challenge for Cousins, a quarterback whose game is built around accuracy, reading defenses and working through progressions, is accepting the invitation.
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game → build → invitation
Everything about his training tells him to find the open receiver.
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Everything → tell → receiver
Bowers requires a different definition of open.
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Bowers → require → open
Cousins recalled encountering the same dilemma with Jefferson in Minnesota, where coach Kevin O’Connell sometimes had to remind him that defensive attention did not necessarily eliminate his best option.
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attention → recall → option
“There are times when they would get doubled, and I would progress off of them,” Cousins said.
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Cousins → be → them
O’Connell’s message was straightforward: Throw it to Jefferson anyway.
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message → throw → Jefferson
“I don’t like throwing to covered guys,” he remembered replying.
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he → like → guys
“I like throwing to open guys.”
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I → throw → guys
It also requires an exception when the target possesses the ability to make a sound defensive play irrelevant.
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play → require → ability
Bowers is earning that exception.
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Bowers → earn → exception
“The coaching point with Brock has been like it was with Justin,” Cousins said.
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Cousins → say → Justin
“When he’s covered, you still need to throw it.”
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you → cover → it
Harder to execute when it means overriding the instincts that have carried Cousins through his career.
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that → execute → career
“That kind of breaks my instincts,” he said.
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he → break → instincts
“My instincts are progressing and throw to open guys.”
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instincts → progress → guys
Sunday illustrated the reward for making that adjustment.
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Sunday → illustrate → adjustment
Bowers did not need an unobstructed path to the football.
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Bowers → need → football
He needed an opportunity to do something remarkable with it.
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He → need → it
“There’s moments this year where I can be better,” Cousins said, “and there’s moments where I’m starting to figure that out.”
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I → ’ → that
Bowers keeps giving him reasons to trust it.
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Bowers → give → it
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