If anything, this second hard fall for Cousins has been more shocking than the one a year ago. An injury is one thing. Coming back from it, seeming to regain your form and then having a season fall apart so dramatically and so suddenly, as Cousins theoretically should be getting stronger the more removed he is from his injury, is not what many of us would have imagined.
It’s not “Kirktober” any more, and there’s no guarantee it ever will be again.