It is always difficult to blame a QB on a loss, because there are a lot of things that happen during a game, that can swing the direction of a game. Cousins does have a long history of not being able to beat good teams, and that is the problem I have with him.
Cousins was actually pretty damn good in getting them into FG position, on the money time and again.
I had an "unscheduled" knee surgery a couple of weeks ago and I'm still pretty housebound. Normally, on a beautiful September Sunday afternoon I would have been outside doing something fun and would have skipped all or part of the Vikings game. Yesterday the Vikings "trapped" me (being facetious) so I was annoyed at the familiarity of how they lose (of course) and annoyed at being stuck inside on a beautiful day with them. To use a dated but apt reference, they are Lucy with the football and I'm Charley Brown thinking she'll let me kick it.
I agree that unexpected success seasons are the most fun. But I don't agree with this overall. The Wolves are a sad pathetic joke of a franchise. I followed them pretty closely their first 20 years but you can't be this bad for this long and expect people to stick around.
There's no rational basis for being a wolves fan. None. The consistent pre and post KG ineptitude of the franchise doesn't warrant a molecule of fan loyalty. But I stick around. Probably for the same reasons that gopher FB fans stick around.
Definitions and assumptions would need to be well-defined, but this would be an interesting one to research.
Gopher football has some doozies but factoring in the much lower expectations, the Vikings top them.
The Bills might come close if you just look at just Super Bowls but the Vikings have creatively thrown away so many games and seasons that, with widened criteria, the Vikings have to safely be ahead.
OK. So what do you want? Fire him? Come on ...
If they were 2-0, as they should be, rest assured there would still be plenty of Vikings fans saying the exact same things they're saying now.
He and the team played well enough to win both games but they didn’t. Who’s fault that is I am not sure. The Vikings have never drafted a QB high since ponder and teams with good QBs don’t let them walk. Just think if they had not won meaningless games last year and redone Cousins deal in 2019 they could have drafts in the top 4-7 and gotten a QB. Instead they milked 7 wins out of the season and are now stuck with Cousins through next year at an ungodly salary number.
But they wanted to make the product more exciting. Why should you be able to keep a kicker on the team that has almost no impact on the game?
The failing was Rick not having the stones to tell Zim to eat it when he wanted Carlson released. Maybe it works out different than what he’s doing know at Las Vegas, we will never know.
No one is actually a twolves fan. They are a trendy team for two weeks a year and then go back into obscurity.
Its almost like sports are life and death. Who actually gives a shit? I might for 15 minutes after the game but.....jeez
Looking back at Carlson is just 20/20 hindsight, revisionist history, whatever you want to call it. In his time with the Vikings, Carlson had a glitch (for lack of a better way to put it) in his swing and he didn't go back and look at the tape and dig into it until the Vikings had cut him. He used his time between the Vikings dumping him and Raiders signing him to do his homework, talk to his old coach, look at his Auburn tape, and get his shit together.
He was a rookie and only played 2 games for the Vikings. He was perfect in his first game. One bad game then getting cut doesn’t give him time to fix anything. Expecting a rookie to be refined by game 2 is just not realistic. That takes years at any position.