This, folks, was a perfect teaching moment for all the people who cling too tightly to statistics on a piece of paper as the way to judge NFL quarterbacks.
Kevin O'Connell was winning his first news conference as Vikings head coach on Thursday when a question came to this mind that would tap into the 36-year-old's one year spent coaching Kirk Cousins as Washington's quarterbacks coach and his one year spent coaching Matthew Stafford as Rams offensive coordinator.
O'Connell was in Washington in 2017 when that team steadfastly refused to gamble its future on Cousins after two years of franchise-tagging him.