Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins is striving to get better with age

Kirk Cousins has been around long enough to know what's coming.

The Cardinals sent a heavy blitz on the first day of joint practices with the Vikings last month. Almost instantly, Cousins found its match in a mental database that's indexed many of his 9,986 NFL snaps with stunning clarity.

Jonathan Gannon, now Arizona's head coach, was the Eagles' defensive coordinator when he called a similar blitz against the Vikings last September; Cousins remembered he was forced to throw the ball away when he looked toward a covered Dalvin Cook and "my tight end to my left was standing borderline wide open." The memory was especially clear because of how much the missed throw irritated him. This time, he…