Cousins Ready To Play Ball?

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Jeremy Fowler

@JFowlerESPN

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Soon-to-be Vikings HC Kevin O'Connell conveyed a firm belief in Kirk Cousins during the interview process, I'm told. He's high on him. The front office must decide on Cousins' future due to his $45M cap hit, but many coaches interviewing for job liked Cousins, O'Connell included

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Year	Team	CMP%	YDS	TD	INT	Rating
2021	Vikings	66.3	4,221	33	7	103.1
2020	Vikings	67.6	4,265	35	13	105.0
2019	Vikings	69.1	3,603	26	6	107.4
2018	Vikings	70.1	4,298	30	10	99.7
2017	Commanders	64.3	4,093	27	13	93.9
2016	Commanders	67.0	4,917	25	12	97.2
2015	Commanders	69.8	4,166	29	11	101.6
2014	Commanders	61.8	1,710	10	9	86.4
2013	Commanders	52.3	854	4	7	58.4
2012	Commanders	68.8	466	4	3	101.6
Career		66.9

Last 3 years have been off-the charts good...With a bad ol aNd the Vikings D hasn't been good since 17.

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@"purplefaithful" said:

Year	Team	CMP%	YDS	TD	INT	Rating
2021	Vikings	66.3	4,221	33	7	103.1
2020	Vikings	67.6	4,265	35	13	105.0
2019	Vikings	69.1	3,603	26	6	107.4
2018	Vikings	70.1	4,298	30	10	99.7
2017	Commanders	64.3	4,093	27	13	93.9
2016	Commanders	67.0	4,917	25	12	97.2
2015	Commanders	69.8	4,166	29	11	101.6
2014	Commanders	61.8	1,710	10	9	86.4
2013	Commanders	52.3	854	4	7	58.4
2012	Commanders	68.8	466	4	3	101.6
Career		66.9

Last 3 years have been off-the charts good...With a bad ol aNd the Vikings D hasn't been good since 17.

Interesting how it lists Commanders even though that wasn't their name yet. 

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https://twitter.com/nacholeber/status/14...6460938243

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@"purplefaithful" said:

Year	Team	CMP%	YDS	TD	INT	Rating
2021	Vikings	66.3	4,221	33	7	103.1
2020	Vikings	67.6	4,265	35	13	105.0
2019	Vikings	69.1	3,603	26	6	107.4
2018	Vikings	70.1	4,298	30	10	99.7

Last 3 years have been off-the charts good...With a bad ol aNd the Vikings D hasn't been good since 17.

Except his first two years here when the D was 9th (18) and 5th overall (19).

Cousins stats do not tell the whole picture here.  

Rip the band aid off, make a deal at his highest value and move on to a guy who hasn't shell'd in our biggest games

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@"Skodin" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

Year	Team	CMP%	YDS	TD	INT	Rating
2021	Vikings	66.3	4,221	33	7	103.1
2020	Vikings	67.6	4,265	35	13	105.0
2019	Vikings	69.1	3,603	26	6	107.4
2018	Vikings	70.1	4,298	30	10	99.7

Last 3 years have been off-the charts good...With a bad ol aNd the Vikings D hasn't been good since 17.

Except his first two years here when the D was 9th (18) and 5th overall (19).

Cousins stats do not tell the whole picture here.  

Rip the band aid off, make a deal at his highest value and move on to a guy who hasn't shell'd in our biggest games

Agreed, he's far from perfect, he's not in Brady's, Mahomes or Rogers class....

Stafford is the perfect analogy as pointed out elsewhere. 

I'm too lazy to look it up, but he's left the team in position to win countless times. 

My own bottom line is this, and everyone has their own:

With a more cap friendly deal,? He's probably the best at the position we can put back there for the foreseeable future. 

He's been incredibly durable and productive in spite of:
Mediocrity on the OL
40 different OC's
A HC who really wasn't pushing many envelopes offensive philosophy wise
I have a suspicion KC wasn't meant to feel as welcome as Teddy was by said HC

Its just not intuitive for me to put most of the Vikings mediocrity at his feet. 

I get not everyone is going to buy into this...

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I keep telling you, put a check down option in KC’s contract, you know he’ll take it now don’t ya…  B) :p  

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@"StickyBun" said:
https://twitter.com/nacholeber/status/14...6460938243

It wouldn't be the first time an organization put out specific information to help hype the trade value of a player.  Similar to right before the draft, it is difficult to know which reports have any kind of validity.  

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@"JR44" said:

@"StickyBun" said:
https://twitter.com/nacholeber/status/14...6460938243

It wouldn't be the first time an organization put out specific information to help hype the trade value of a player.  Similar to right before the draft, it is difficult to know which reports have any kind of validity.  

Truth...

But Fowler and nacholeber are not part of the Vikings and Ben tells it like he thinks, he's been plenty critical of the vikings in the past. 

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@"JustinTime18™" said:

Jeremy Fowler

@JFowlerESPN

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Soon-to-be Vikings HC Kevin O'Connell conveyed a firm belief in Kirk Cousins during the interview process, I'm told. He's high on him. The front office must decide on Cousins' future due to his $45M cap hit, but many coaches interviewing for job liked Cousins, O'Connell included

Yea, I expected all the candidates to come to the interview prepared to call the 45million baby ugly

Did anyone, I mean anyone, expect any other "quotes" from either of them that wasn't kumbaya?