The four-game stretch after the Vikings’ bye week that spelled the end for interim offensive coordinator John DeFilippo was also perhaps Kirk Cousins’ worst, at least from a statistical perspective, of his first season in Minnesota.
Cousins had a passer rating below 90 in three of the four games — all Vikings losses — and posted his two worst days of the season against the Bears and Patriots, throwing two interceptions for the first time all year against Chicago and doing so again in New England.
Apart from one (notable) play against the Dolphins, Cousins got back to playing efficient football in Kevin Stefanski’s first outing as the Vikings’ play-caller, posting a passer rating over 100 for just the second time since the start of November and throwing a pair of touchdown passes in the Vikings’ 41-17 win.