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Originally Posted by LeonfromNC
Agreed, but at least you guys have Discount Double Check playing QB while we have Captain Turnover.
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Since November, Cousins has been phenomenal. He can't help when he gets blind-sided in .2 second and fumbles. That happens to every QB if they don't get protected. Yesterday's INT was really on Cousins (it wasn't a great throw) because Dalvin didn't turn his head breaking from his route.
Since November, Cousins has 15 TD's and 2 INT's, while the Vikings have went 5-1 during that stretch. Cousins also has three go-ahead TD's in the 4th quarter this year that the defense ended up costing us the win down the stretch, while still having three GWD's. He isn't the best QB in the league, but 26 TD's to 12 INT's is pretty damn good with 4 games still to go. I'm not saying he is better than Rodgers, because clearly he isn't and everyone knows that, but the Vikings are capable of winning with Cousins, as we have shown. We should realistically be 8-4 or 9-3 but the defense gave up last second leads against Tennessee, Seattle, and Dallas which is why we are 6-6.
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Originally Posted by DontToewsMeBro
Kirk Cousins is mediocre at best.
He has flashes of brilliance but that is an illusion.
He has parlayed mediocrity into $$$millions. Good for him.
He still, and always will, make horrible errors every game. Look at the pick-6 at the start of 3rd Q yesterday. Terrible decision to throw that ball and way off target.
He will inevitably sink the Vikings boat (pun intended)
They will NEVER win the SB with Cousins at the helm.
As for the rest of the team?
Defence? Terrible right now - missing Kendricks, Barr, Gedeon, Hunter, Pierce all on defence has really hurt this year - plus have all those rookies at DB has been rough even though some of them (Dantzler, Boyd) have been improving
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Do you ever get sick of complaining about everything? He threw an INT yesterday that went for 6, but to put the sole blame on him is ridiculous. Dalvin didn't even turn his head and look when he broke into his route. Saying Cousins is mediocre is ridiculous. He is solid, but everyone loves to blame him for everything. Again, he had three go-ahead TD passes in the 4th quarter this year that then the defense gave back the lead. He has 3 game winning drives this season (but again, that could very well be 6 GWD without the defenses blunders). He started off incredibly slow this year and had a pretty brutal September, but he has been fantastic the last 6 weeks. And what QB has won a Super Bowl for the Vikings? Tarkenton? Cunningham? Culpepper? Favre? Cousins is better than the current alternative and will be better than anything the Vikings could draft next year or sign in free agency.
You want to go ahead and say the defense is terrible, but they have been very good overall (aside from the Dallas game) since the bye week. And that is with backups and third stringers in there, guys we are signing off the streets to throw in there that week, etc. What Zimmer has done with this defense that is filled with super glue and flex seal tape is impressive. Every week we have new players on the field that have hardly played this year because of necessity. The fact that the defense has played as solid as it has without Hunter, Barr, Pierce, Hughes is a testament to how good of a coach Zimmer actually is defensively. Now, we DO need to get better pressure on the QB's. We haven't gotten any good push this year without bringing the blitz, but again, that goes back to no Hunter, Pierce, Barr on the defense.
If we can take anything from this season it is the experience our youthful defense is getting. A completely healthy Vikings defense in 2021 could be downright scary.