{"id":818867,"date":"2026-08-19T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818867\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:00:11","slug":"kirk-cousins-frustrated-by-defenders-hitting-his-arm-during-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818867\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cousins frustrated by defenders hitting his arm during practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins found himself in the middle of another practice skirmish during Tuesday\u2019s joint workout with the Texans. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing reached the level of his <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/raiders-hold-kirk-cousins-maxx-crosby-out-of-saturdays-practice-due-to-fridays-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tussle with<\/a> teammate Maxx Crosby earlier this summer, but Cousins was upset for similar reasons. He said after the session that \u201cmy elbow got hit\u201d when Texans defenders closed in on him in the pocket and that sparked his response. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/raiders\/dont-touch-my-arm-raiders-qb-kirk-cousins-practices-safety-in-training-camp-3865826\/?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=latest&amp;utm_source=sports&amp;utm_term=%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t%20touch%20my%20arm%E2%80%99%3A%20Raiders%20QB%20Kirk%20Cousins%20practices%20safety%20in%20training%20camp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">got some scars<\/a> from some hits in real games where helmets go into armpits and things, and it ruins your season,\u201d Cousins said, via Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. \u201cSo, I was just asking [Crosby] to just stay off the arm, and I had to remind the Texans as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cousins was wearing the typical red jersey signifying that no one should contact the quarterback and he wondered why that\u2019s the case given how often it seems to happen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might as well just take the red jersey off because you\u2019re playing with, sometimes, an understood rule that if it\u2019s not understood, then what are we doing?\u201d Cousins said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a fair question, although it might not be the most pressing one as the Raiders work to figure out when Cousins <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/fernando-mendoza-gets-first-team-reps-impresses-at-joint-practice-with-texans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will give way<\/a> to first overall pick Fernando Mendoza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins found himself in the middle of another practice skirmish during Tuesday\u2019s joint workout with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-818867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}