Kirk Cousins is no big fan of Creed, after all

Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins received a fair amount of flak for this tweet he sent out in May:

Well, it turns out Cousins isn't a major Creed fan, after all. In an interview with Jake Kring-Schreifels of Redskins.com, Cousins clarified that he was just feeling nostalgic that day.

"Yeah, somehow it got misconstrued a little bit," Cousins said. "I was jokingly tweeting it because I think Creed, at a time when I was in middle school, was a popular band.

"... when they came on that one day in the weight room, it kind of brought me back to the middle school days, 2000, 2001. I felt I had to tweet about it just for nostalgia sake. People got pretty fired up about it. They assumed I was very passionately a fan of Creed. I think that would be an overreaction. But now, just like with 'Lord of the Rings,' it's been credited to me as though it's my biggest passion in life. And both of those things, while I have a great appreciation for them, I don't know it's quite as big of a deal as people think it is."