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SoMnFan -> RE: Vikes talk for Twins Fans (1/6/2020 1:42:45 PM)
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More on Thielens day
By this point, the first quarter was a distant memory, and for Thielen that was a good thing. He'd started the game miserably, fumbling away the ball on the Vikings' first drive and setting up the Saints for an early 3-0 lead. When he got back to the sideline, he made a motion with his hand that simulated flushing a toilet.
"Just flush that play away," Thielen said. "It's actually something from college, our coaches used to make us do -- flush the bad play. We actually had a little mini toilet on the sideline and we'd have to go over and flush it. So that's where that came from."
The techniques of the Minnesota State-Mankato coaching staff having aided his mental recovery, Thielen was in pretty good psychological shape by the time the Vikings broke the huddle in overtime. He had caught six passes for 86 yards and helped the Vikings build a 20-10 lead of which they needed every bit just to get to this point. So when Cousins called the play, he bounced out to his position wide to the right.
"That play, it's something we haven't tried in a long time," Thielen said. "We've been practicing it, but I never thought we'd use it there."
The name of the play? Sorry, dear reader, but that's a place where this reporter came up short in his reporting.
"I don't think I can tell you that, Dan," Cousins said in the locker room when I innocently asked what the play was called. "I believe that's classified information."
Added Thielen: "It's a long playcall, so I don't remember the whole thing. I just know what I had on that play."
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