Post by Purple Pain on Oct 16, 2018 20:07:20 GMT -6
Well, the Vikes didn't get to face Bradford and the Cardinals, they won't face Bridgewater and the Jets, and it doesn't look like they'll be seeing Case and the Broncos in the Super Bowl, but how about this storyline?
How sweet it will be for Jets to shut up classless Kirk Cousins by Mark Cannizzaro
Link: nypost.com/2018/10/16/how-sweet-it-will-be-for-jets-to-shut-up-classless-kirk-cousins/
How sweet it will be for Jets to shut up classless Kirk Cousins by Mark Cannizzaro
Is there a Jets fan alive who doesn’t crave seeing the Jets defense dismantle Kirk Cousins and the Vikings on Sunday at MetLife Stadium and then ask the Minnesota quarterback this:
“You like that?!?’’
Forget that a win over the 3-2-1 Vikings would be a third consecutive victory for the young, upstart Jets, who would get to 4-3 and be in the thick of the AFC East race nearly midway through the season.
The delicious byproduct would be sticking it to Cousins, who not only spurned an outlandish free-agent contract offer of $90 million guaranteed over three years from the Jets in March, but then bragged about using them as leverage to up the Minnesota offer on a video that was posted for public consumption and — as it turned out — Jets embarrassment.
In the video, Cousins tells his wife, Julie, that “the Jets came up to 30 [million], fully guaranteed, three-year deal.”
Her response: “Whoa.”
Cousins then said, “So now we have what we wanted. [His agent, Mike McCartney] has to do the same thing with the Vikings. He’s got to get them from 25 to a number that is competitive with the Jets’ offer. But the fact that we have the Jets offer is huge. Now it gives the other teams a reason to come up.”
The end game was the Vikings upping their offer from $25 million to $28 million per year guaranteed, which Cousins agreed to.
That the video, which contained information from confidential conversations that would be embarrassing to the Jets, was signed off on to be posted to the public is — if we’re cutting the Vikings a break for being absent-minded — a clueless oversight.
But if we’re being more realistic, it was classless.
At the very least, it was cringeworthy.
“You like that?!?’’
Forget that a win over the 3-2-1 Vikings would be a third consecutive victory for the young, upstart Jets, who would get to 4-3 and be in the thick of the AFC East race nearly midway through the season.
The delicious byproduct would be sticking it to Cousins, who not only spurned an outlandish free-agent contract offer of $90 million guaranteed over three years from the Jets in March, but then bragged about using them as leverage to up the Minnesota offer on a video that was posted for public consumption and — as it turned out — Jets embarrassment.
In the video, Cousins tells his wife, Julie, that “the Jets came up to 30 [million], fully guaranteed, three-year deal.”
Her response: “Whoa.”
Cousins then said, “So now we have what we wanted. [His agent, Mike McCartney] has to do the same thing with the Vikings. He’s got to get them from 25 to a number that is competitive with the Jets’ offer. But the fact that we have the Jets offer is huge. Now it gives the other teams a reason to come up.”
The end game was the Vikings upping their offer from $25 million to $28 million per year guaranteed, which Cousins agreed to.
That the video, which contained information from confidential conversations that would be embarrassing to the Jets, was signed off on to be posted to the public is — if we’re cutting the Vikings a break for being absent-minded — a clueless oversight.
But if we’re being more realistic, it was classless.
At the very least, it was cringeworthy.
Link: nypost.com/2018/10/16/how-sweet-it-will-be-for-jets-to-shut-up-classless-kirk-cousins/
If the game has to be decided at the end, we're definitely losing. The only way the Vikings can win a close game is if they jump out to a big lead and then hold on by the skin of their teeth (see Saints, 49ers and Eagles). That's the typical way. If we get down early by a lot, we get blown out (see NFCCG and Bills game), every time, or we come back just enough to get our hopes up in time to crush them (see Packers game). If it's a close game all the way to the end, we usually find a way to blow it (see Rams game).
