Give Colt McCoy credit — he didn’t “like” anything unnecessarily, so he doesn’t have to blame the intern.
The Washington quarterback said he wasn’t wading into the recent controversy about who’s starting — it’s Kirk Cousins, not him or Robert Griffin III — and wasn’t adding any fuel to the fire.
“I’m going to keep my reaction to myself,” McCoy said, via Liz Clarke of the Washington Post.
McCoy and Cousins were ostensibly battling for the backup job, at least until the team decided to park Griffin after a recent concussion. So with confusion the norm, it’s only reasonable to wonder how close McCoy might have been to the starting job himself. But pressed as to whether he thought the competition was fair, McCoy passed.
“I’m not going to get too much into that,” he said. “What has been done has been done. We as a team have to move forward, and my focus right now is on doing the best I can to get everyone on the same page and ready to go for Jacksonville.”
McCoy actually had a better completion percentage than Cousins, and the highest preseason passer rating of the three (79.2 percent, 142.4 rating). And unlike the rest of them, he wasn’t benched for performance last year, with a neck injury taking him out.
So not saying much now is probably the prudent play, since it seems inevitable that he’ll be back on the field at some point this season.