The Minnesota Vikings beat their bitter rivals, the Green Bay Packers on Sunday 24-10. The win was the team’s fourth win in five games after starting the season 0-3. It pushed the team to .500 on the season and moved them to 2-0 within the division. The team is in the playoff picture and rolling.
All of this should be cause for celebration, but this is a somber victory Monday after the injury to Kirk Cousins.
With the Vikings rolling and the game all but in-hand, Cousins dropped back to pass on a fairly innocuous play in early in the fourth quarter. As Cousins stepped up to buy time, he hopped and just a few minutes later we could see the full extent.
Cousins came up hobbling and was quickly ruled out with an ankle injury. After the game, it was reported that Cousins had suffered an Achilles injury — which will likely be confirmed today by MRI. Cousins will likely miss the rest of the season, and now Minnesota is left with a bevy of questions at the position.
In spite of the devastating injury to Cousins, the Vikings still walked away with a win. It may be hard to remember in the wake of the Cousins injury, but there was a lot of good that happened on Sunday, too. Let’s take a look at the good, bad and (obvious) ugly from Sunday’s game.