Kirk Cousins and Mike Zimmer have slightly different recollections of how their weekly Thursday meetings started. Zimmer said before the Vikings' regular-season opener that Cousins suggested they study film together for the first time, while the quarterback said he'd talked with Zimmer before the season about resuming a practice they'd done at least occasionally in prior years.
"We had done it in the past and just gotten away from it," Cousins said. "In the spring we met, and just felt like it was a no-brainer and spent more time going forward. That's what we've been doing."
Neither Cousins nor Zimmer doubts the 45-minute weekly sessions have been beneficial.