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Judging by all the enthusiastic talk from teammates, coaching staff, and the main man himself, pros can already tell that Part II of the Kirk Cousins Era in Minnesota is going to be a wild one.
And wild it was. At least when it comes to his first game back.
Cousins was traded to the Vikings three years after leaving and during his first game back, he blew out the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field 30-10. The quarterback completed 21-of-31 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns with one interception.
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The Vikings defense also held strong on their side and sacked Packers’ QB Jordan Love eight times, which was the most by one team in the NFL this season.
Minnesota was strong right out of the gate by taking a 17-0 lead while sacking Love five times during the first half.
Before the game even started, the Vikings spoke to Cousins about returning next season, ESPN reported. Minnesota went through Cousins’ agent, Mike McCartney, and even though the QB will be a free agent following this year, the Vikings made it clear that they want him to stay on longer.
It was announced earlier in the game that Cousins was also the first quarterback with 20 touchdown passes to change teams midseason, NBC Sports reported.
“He ranks second in the league entering his first game with the Vikings, after nine games with the Raiders. And, given the placement of the byes, Cousins will be able to play in up to 18 games,” NBC said.
“The most pressing question is whether the plug-and-play in purple will work. He ranked fourth in the league in passing yards (23,265) and touchdown passes (171) during his six years with Minnesota.”
Basically, as Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur said following his team’s beat down, “this is a humbling league.”
“Today we got humbled,” LaFleur said. “I think they’re a really good football team and anytime you spot them and turn the ball over four times to their one, that’s a recipe for disaster. Give them credit – they did a great job – but obviously we didn’t coach well enough and certainly didn’t execute well enough.”
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