Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins has a lot on the line this season. He is basically playing for a potential huge future paycheck. It is why, at least somewhat, it is understandable that he's losing his marbles over an intentional grounding call.

It's just that, you know, he doesn't seem to know the rule.

“The letter to Bruce Allen, or whatever they do to say ‘we’re sorry, wrong call,’ or whatever it may be, you know, it’s tough,” Cousins said Monday on 106.7 The Fan’s Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier during his weekly segment. “Because there’s nobody bringing that up in February and March when we’re making decisions about which direction to go with the organization.

“That’s the kind of thing that, we appreciate the clarification, but it really doesn’t do much. I mean, this is our careers. This is our livelihood. This is what we do. It just is frustrating when a letter is really all you get, when it has such a major impact on the direction of our lives, when we’re in it and doing it every day.”

Again, the call wasn't wrong. Kirk Cousins definitely committed a penalty.

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For fun, Cousins admits the playcall was initially a run, but was then an audible to a pass:

“The whole point we’re calling a run is to run it,” Cousins said. “If we want to throw it, we’d call a pass. I’m at the line of scrimmage and I see Jay kind of on the sidelines, and I see what I think to be in the noise. I mean, I can’t really hear him, but I see him say ‘throw it.’ And I’m assuming what he meant is the play’s dead; the run’s not going to work. If anything, we’re going to lose yards, and right now, on the 34-yard line, yards are precious.

“And I’m thinking, well, [Jamison] Crowder and [Josh] Doctson are over there. If I literally just throw it over their heads, they’re in the area; they’re eligible receivers. Not to mention, if I’m not under pressure, it’s not intentional grounding, because I’m not really at risk of a sack, so I can just throw it in their general direction, and because I’m not under pressure and because they’re in the area, it won’t matter. And you saw what happened.”

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but that play was definitely intentional grounding … right?