The highlight of the Vikings’ 24-16 preseason loss to the Tennessee Titans on Saturday night at U.S. Bank Stadium happened postgame in the home locker room when teammates sang happy birthday to quarterback Kirk Cousins.
Cousins also got a nice ovation from the announced crowd of 66,689 when the scoreboard wished him a happy 35th. Other than that the game got the Vikings one step closer to the end of the preseason — that will come next Saturday against Arizona — and the start of the regular season on Sept. 10 against Tampa Bay.
The Vikings have now lost nine consecutive exhibition games, and Kevin O’Connell is 0-5 in the preseason as the Vikings’ head coach. As O’Connell spoke about that latest loss on Saturday, he appeared as eager as everyone else to get done with the meaningless games and have the real thing begin.
But there were a few points of interest. Here are four of them.