Ricky J -> RE: General Vikes Talk (10/30/2021 9:28:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes To be fair to Cousins, he has engineered 18 game winning drives over his career. Which is far more than I realized. It puts him currently at #69 all time (for game winning drives). there are obviously a bazillion variables to that ... https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/gwd_career.htm I haven't found current stats for game winning walk-off TDs ... Someone called footballperspective.com has Cousins with 7 game winning TDs before 2020 ... did he throw any last season? I honestly can't remember. The NO playoff game and last weekend are the only 2 TDs I do remember ... https://www.footballperspective.com/which-quarterback-has-thrown-the-most-game-winning-touchdowns-through-2019/ If no, he currently has 8 walk off TDs (incl CAR last weekend) which, again, is more than I have been giving him credit for. ..... I dunno. Even watching him play really well this year ... it just feels like he is too risk-averse, too methodical ... taking what he can get over looking downfield for chunk plays. Then again, 57-57-2 ... he gets way too much blame and credit ... but 57-57-2 There should be a stat "shoulda-been-game-winning-drive". I remember Daunte Culpepper leading us back for leads in the 4th quarter (sometimes multiple times anybody remember the Doug O'brien/Buffalo game?) many times, yet the defense would immediately piss the lead away. And Culpepper got the rep as a QB who couldn't rally a team. Cousins has more game winning TDs than Two-minute Tommy but unless he does some damage in playoff games, I doubt he will ever reach that level of sentimental value for fans. But I am biased, for my money he is just too blah. There is one other option ... besides a SB ... that would completely alter my opinion of Cousins, if he did this: https://twitter.com/QuirkyResearch/status/1453343393493536768 Any particular player you would like to see Cousins bean in the helmet after a touchdown? Mike Zimmer or Rick Spielman… Yea, not players.. but .. EPIC! Francis Tarkenton@Fran_Tarkentonh I’ve never seen this footage before but I remember it well! Watch for #53. That’s Mick Tingelhoff, my center with the Vikings. Sometimes I’d start a fight, but Mick would always finish it! Didn't he throw a strike to the back of the head of Bubba Smith, too?
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