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.