Many assumed the Vikings would be sellers ahead of next week’s trade deadline because they entered Monday night with a losing record before hosting the mighty 49ers.
Some even dreamed of a scenario in which Kirk Cousins found his way to the Jets or another quarterback-needy team, even though Cousins has a no-trade clause and reportedly has no intentions of waiving it.
Even if the Vikings could trade Cousins, they probably wouldn’t after Cousins was sensational in the 22–17 upset win against those mighty 49ers.
Author: Michael
The Vikings pulled off an upset win over the 49ers on Monday night thanks to a dominant performance from quarterback Kirk Cousins.
Even without Justin Jefferson healthy and on the field for Minnesota, Cousins was able to throw for 378 yards and two touchdowns, guiding the Vikings to a 22–17 victory.
After the game, Jefferson was fired up and crashed Cousins’s postgame interview in order to place the ‘SportsCenter Top 10’ chain around his neck.
“I gotta work on getting some of these though,” Cousins said, pointing to the grills on Jefferson’s teeth.
Adolis Garcia slugged two more homers as Texas overwhelmed Houston 11-4 in Game 7 of the ALCS, ending a series in which the road team won every game.
From the people who brought you Bedlam at the Bank, a year to the day later … Bedtime at the Bank.
The Phillies looked flat in Monday’s Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, which the Diamondbacks won 5–1 to force a winner-take-all Game 7 on Tuesday. It was the worst performance by a group of people who reside part time in Pennsylvania since Mehmet Oz’s senatorial campaign. By the eighth inning, the 45,473 in attendance could barely bring themselves to boo erstwhile closer Craig Kimbrel as he entered for mop-up duty. (They managed, though.
New York Giants lineman Justin Pugh is happy to be playing for the G-Men after five weeks of watching from his living room.
Pugh entered the season as a free agent. His first game was Week 6’s Sunday night loss to the Buffalo Bills, where Pugh memorably introduced himself as coming “straight off the couch.”
Well, that primetime intro may have led to an off-the-field deal for Pugh.
Justin Pugh straight off the couch pic.twitter.
The Vikings proved Monday that not every team is capable of running the Tush Push as successfully as the Eagles. 49ers linebacker Fred Warner also proved that there is a viable way to stop the controversial quarterback sneak play.
When Kirk Cousins attempted to rush the ball over the goal line with an assisted shove from his teammates, Warner was all over it.
Warner took a page out of Troy Polamalu’s book as he caught the entire Vikings offense off guard and timed up a perfect leap over the line, crashing directly into Cousins and foiling his attempted sneak.
Fred Warner goes above and beyond to stop Kirk Cousins at the goal line
The “Tush Push” has become a point of national debate.
But Fred Warner, the dynamic linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, may have just ended it.
The success the Philadelphia Eagles are having with the play has led almost every other NFL team — and perhaps every other team at all levels of the sport — to put their own version of the play in their playbooks.
Aaron Rodgers’s anticipated appearance on ESPN’s ManningCast generated plenty of buzz entering Monday night. So much buzz, in fact, that it apparently carried over in an unexpected way during the broadcast.
After initially going off without a hitch, the injured Jets quarterback’s guest spot alongside Peyton and Eli Manning for the 49ers–Vikings game on Monday Night Football took a turn when Rodgers’s audio suddenly began to distort.
From there, Rodgers’s voice awkwardly grew more and more robotic as he laughed at a Peyton joke and attempted to respond in kind.
The Minnesota Vikings showed up to play Monday night against the San Francisco 49ers, thanks in large part to the booming connection between Kirk Cousins and Vikings rookie wideout Jordan Addison.
Addison flashed a bit of that dawg in the first half when he got sweet revenge on 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward.
Early in the first quarter, Ward strong-armed a Cousins pass attempt out of Addison’s hands for an interception.
The two had an early battle in the game, trading Moss-like catches. Primetime Cousins’ turnover was a rough start for the Vikings offense.
Happy National Tight Ends Day Weekend to those who celebrate! San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle invented the holiday, which the NFL now embraces.
Each year, the league recognizes Week 7 as National Tight Ends Day. Which, of course, makes no sense since Week 7 encompasses more than one day. Three, in fact. Thursday, Sunday and Monday.
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle invented National Tight Ends Day but he had a horrible first half on the holiday.