I’m happy that after the huge Minnesota Vikings victory over the Dolphins, Mike Zimmer did not give a game ball in the locker room to new offensive coordinator, Kevin Stefanski. They say the Vikings’ head coach is a tough guy, but I find him often a little soft in the heart when it comes to symbols of accolade.
Kirk Cousins was abysmal in Chicago (QB rating of 76.5), but in returning to Minnesota to beat the Packers by a touchdown, Zimmer plants one of his ‘game balls’ in the QB’s chest. In consecutive weeks, Cousins proceeds to play the two worst games of his career, in New England (70.