Cousins, who eventually broke the record on a 28-yard pass to Jamison Crowder, was aware of all of this, thanks to his favorite target.

“I did know because Jordan Reed was giving me live updates after each play, as to how many more yards I needed,” Cousins told 106.7 The Fan’s Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier on Monday. “It was pretty special, honestly, to have teammates who were happy for your success as much as they are happy for their own success. And likewise, I felt the same way toward Jordan and Crowder and other guys who were out there trying to set records in different ways. I guess that’s when you feel like you have a team, when guys want to see others succeed as much as they want to see themselves succeed. It was a lot of fun to be able to have those moments and then obviously get a win, and finish the fourth quarter of the season going 4-0. I think that’s a really good statement.”

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(Reed set the Redskins’ single-season record for catches by a tight end, while Crowder broke Art Monk’s record for receptions by a Redskins rookie.)

Paulsen asked Cousins, who made an Aaron Rodgers-like move when he ducked his front shoulder to avoid the Cowboys’ pass rush before throwing a perfect touchdown strike to Pierre Garcon, if he studies film of the Packers quarterback.

“Yeah, you watch it every week, and he’s the guy that I think does things at a whole ‘nother level, with his athleticism, his mental quickness, his quickness with his feet, his quickness with his release, his arm strength,” Cousins said of his counterpart in Sunday’s playoff game at FedEx Field. “He just kind of has that total package that the rest of us are all kind of emulating and chasing and trying to get there. But, he’s special and thankfully I’m not playing defense and I don’t have to focus on him, but I do watch him and study him along with some other guys. His combination of several skills is kind of one of a kind.”

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Cousins can be thankful he doesn’t play behind Rodgers’s offensive line, which has allowed 47 sacks this season, including 13 in the past two games. The Redskins have allowed 27 sacks. Cousins will make his first career postseason start on Sunday, while Rodgers will make his 12th. Cousins said his only playoff experience — 10 passes in relief of an injured Robert Griffin III in Jan. 2013 — “can’t hurt” and that he’ll approach the wild-card round as he would any other game.

“The word I’ve always heard is that playoff games are faster and that suddenly the game changes,” Cousins said. “I don’t remember that being true. I think it’s still an NFL football game, there’s still great players on the field like there were weeks one through 17. So, I think it’s still the same game. You don’t want to over-hype it. I think what I tangibly noticed in the game against Seattle at the end of the 2012 season was the crowd, the fanbase. There was excitement, there was electricity in the air and the stadium that I hadn’t noticed the first 17 weeks even though we had had big games in great environments. It was taken up a notch in the playoff game. So that’s what I would tell my younger teammates and what I’m looking forward to is just the environment in FedEx Field.”

Cousins was asked, again, about his future in Washington after a record-setting season in a contract year.