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NFL teams are 83-12-1 this season when winning the turnover margin by two or more. The Vikings, tied for second in the league with six such games, have four of those 12 losses.
So basically the Vikings win turnover battles, take leads into the 4th quarter, etc, etc, etc yet other teams somehow win against large sample statistical odds. Perhaps they think, ah we got this because the Vikings are soft, predictable, will choke, and the head coach will botch something near the end of the game.
This pretty much points to coaching imo. Stats show 90% of the time teams win these games yet Zim manages to piss them away. stats tend to back up the eye test when it comes to Zim in game management.
A coach will always be made to look bad as a game manager if he has a quarterback that can't run a two-minute offense. In addition, a defense that is terrible at stopping one is equally damaging. The Vikings are one of the worst two-minute teams in the league this season. They've been outscored by about 50+ points this season in the final two minutes of halves. If they had just played competently in the final two minutes of halves they'd have a least two more wins, if not three or four.
I know its a rant I have that people are getting tired of, but it is 100% true. Cousins has a 101.2 overall quarterback rating. His quarterback rating in the final two minutes of halves is 76.5. He just doesn't get it done when it matters, plain and simple.
Aaron Rodgers -- 118.5
Joe Burrow -- 125.6
Russell Wilson -- 110.7
People are tired of Brad arguing about Brad. Your 2 min argument is just another of your futile campaigns to own a point of view that is neither wholly true nor wholly yours.
There are three or four posters who blame Cousins QB deficiencies on the situation around him. Most believe he’s good at some things and bad at others. Whoopee.
According to the Wash. Post, he’s about #10 in 4th qtr effeciency and #9 in late/close game passing efficiency. That wasn’t cherry picked, that was the first place I looked. And that is as far as I’m going to defend him because I want him gone.
But …. as other more neutral and even-handed posters than yourself have said, there’s a good chance our next QB - especially a highly touted young one if we are smart enough to go that route - will struggle for a time and perform less well than the #10-15 rated KC (if you go by stats … which I’m leery of).
Hopefully its worth it but you never know. Its super hard for this franchise to get it right.
Late game passing efficiency is far different than passer rating in the final two minutes of both halves. It is essential in the year 2021 to be good in the final two minutes of halves, especially when you have a defense as bad as the Vikings. Can some of it be blamed on play calling? Sure it can. But not all. This is the second straight season where Cousins has been terrible in the final two minutes of halves. At some point it isn't an occasional accident.
His late-season COVID episode is just another example of his poor leadership skills. He opted to exorcize his free will and not get vaccinated. The Vikings should exorcize their option and cut his ass, previous to the end of the season. And the general manager should also be asked to step down as a fallout.
The problem with Cousins goes well beyond his play in two minutes. Its much deeper ... I'm sure you get that but you harped on two minutes all summer then Cousins came out and played well during some two minute drills and you had to shut up for a moment.
All this annoying two minute crap is just you trying to protect the position you staked out, your talkvikes 'brand'. Cousins has proven he can execute a 2 minute drill, he has done it very well several times this season. No QB does it well all the time.
The bottomline is, Cousins simply cannot rise above an offensive play call or a good defensive adjustment. If there's something there, he'll execute it very well, if its not there he's not going to improvise and make it happen.
IMO that is a debilitating trait for a franchise QB.
The Vikings have been outscored 110-38 in the final two minutes of halves this season. Minnesota is +12 scoring this season, and -72 in the final two minutes of halves. Minnesota has scored three touchdowns in the final two minutes of halves the entire year. Through 30 halves, that's pretty piss poor. And we don't even need to get into just how bad the defense has been, because that's historic in nature. The defensive coordinator should have been fired 10 weeks ago.
Cousins Stats:
66.4% completion percentage for season........56.3% in the final two minutes
7.4 yards-per-attempt for season..........5.4 in final two minutes
And he's only been sacked three times in the final two minutes all season. You can only blame so much on the play-calling and guys around him. If Kirk Cousins was a real leader, he'd be calling his own plays in a two-minute drill. You think Aaron Rodgers gives a damned about what they are saying in his helmet in the final two minutes? He's running the show. That's what good quarterbacks do.
Now, in fairness, passer ratings, completion % and yards-per-attempt tend to go down a bit in the final two minutes. It's the nature of the game. Guys throw balls away to stop the clock, etc.... But that's a huge decline, especially when you consider the tools around him. The massive decline is in yards-per-attempt. 5.4 wreaks of check-down Charlie. Rodgers is still at 7.3 in the final two minutes.
< Message edited by Brad H -- 1/1/2022 7:56:21 AM >
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