EAGAN, Minn. -- As training camp concluded last summer, Kirk Cousins looked around the Minnesota Vikings locker room and absorbed what he saw. The quarterback added up the team's large core of well-paid veterans. He noticed a handful of key pending free agents whose future was unclear.
"And I realized that this group won't be together forever," Cousins told ESPN last month. "So there was a little bit of, 'Let's enjoy this group because we may all be together next year, but we may not.' Let's make sure we cherish every day of practice together, every rep of every game, win or lose, good or bad.