“Kirk Cousins would pick Cam Newton over Kirk Cousins if he had a vote,” one person wrote.

Well, if Tiki Barber had a vote, and he sort of does in the form of the CBS Sports Radio show he co-hosts with Brandon Tierney, the former Giants running back would agree with Rodgers and take Cousins over Newton for many of the same reasons Rodgers laid out. (Rodgers essentially argued that teams eventually figured out how to defend Newton’s athleticism, but there’s no defense for quarterbacks such as Cousins, who go through their reads and complete a high percentage of their passes to a variety of receivers.)

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“Jordan Rodgers is basically stating the obvious, but he said it in a way that actually makes a lot of sense,” Barber said Wednesday. “Kirk Cousins is actually the more viable option, because Kirk Cousins will sit in the pocket and find his guy and read a defense and know pre-snap where he’s going to go with the ball, and if something breaks down, then he finds his checkdown back. Those two guys who they had in Washington were fantastic in giving him support in that role, so yeah, of course you take Kirk Cousins over Cam Newton, even though Cam Newton was the MVP. With Cam Newton, you get an MVP season one year and then the next year you get what the hell we saw in 2016. And what do you want? I’m not sure I want that roller-coaster. I’ve seen that roller-coaster — not with one guy, but with multiple guys over the course of my career. … With Cam Newton, you’re getting year-to-year volatility. With Kirk Cousins, you haven’t had that. It’s been pretty consistent.”

Of course, huh? Tierney asked Barber whether he thinks Newton’s superior running ability offsets Cousins’ advantage over the Panthers’ QB in several statistical categories over the last two seasons, including yards per attempt, completion percentage and QB rating. Newton ran for 359 yards last season after rushing for at least 500 yards in each of his first five seasons.

“How long does that last?” Barber said. “I mean, Donovan [McNabb] was that to an extent for a while, and then he got chunky. Of course I love Donovan, but that running edge that he had earlier on, it was such a pain in the ass, it dissipated as he got older. If you’re choosing one and you’re building out for the next five or six years, who are you picking? I think it’s pretty easy to pick Kirk Cousins.”

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Barber is convinced that Cousins, who played last season under the franchise tag, is as good as gone from the Redskins after the 2017 season.