Others, including my colleague Master Tesfatsion, suggested that Cousins was reciting — or attempting to recite — part of Brooklyn rapper Young M.A.’s “OOOUUU,” a common sound in the Redskins’ locker room this season. During his weekly appearance Monday on 106.7 The Fan, Cousins was asked to set the record straight once and for all. He couldn’t.

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“I don’t even know,” Cousins told Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier. “Quinton Dunbar started doing it in maybe OTAs or training camp, and he would just do it randomly at different times, anything from on the practice field to playing cards in the locker room. I have asked him what it’s from; he said he doesn’t really know, but you just kind of do it when you’re feeling good. I was feeling good in that moment, so I did it. You can hear Spencer Long behind me repeating it, because we all know it in the locker room. I think someone’s gotta ask Quinton on Tuesday or Wednesday this week what that comes from. … He’s the one who does it all the time. He’s the originator. I was just trying to imitate it. But he should make some T-shirts too, man. It’s a pretty cool phrase.”

It turns out we won’t have to wait until Tuesday for an answer from Dunbar. The cornerback explained the origin of “ohhhweee” — his spelling — in the caption of an Instagram post on Monday. Dunbar said it wasn’t from Young M.A., but from one of his friends from home, Black Sam. “He is in jail so that slogan live through me,” Dunbar wrote.

And now, apparently, Cousins.

Cousins was also asked about the emotion he showed in the second quarter, when he sprinted to argue with a referee about what he thought should have been a defensive pass interference penalty on a third-down incompletion.

“I just wanted to fight for it the best I could and send a message that I disagreed with the call,” Cousins said. “I thought, looking back at it, those are the kinds of calls that can go either way. That’s the number one reason I would never want to be a ref, because those decisions happen so quickly. I’m probably a little bit more passionate, a little bit more demonstrative than I let on sometimes. I try to be careful and guard my words and not overdo it at times, but the real Kirk is probably more of what you saw there on that pass interference play. Maybe I’ve got to let that come out a little bit more often. When I play with passion, that’s usually when I’m at my best.”

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Cousins suggested that he may continue to show more emotion on the field, in addition to the FedEx Field tunnel.