While we wait with bated-breath for confirmation of the likely diagnosis on Kirk Cousins, let's not forget the good feeling that comes from beating that other team. Focus on the sweet, not just the bitter. Their quarterback is finally, every-bit the liability that Minnesota has had to choke through for season after season with few exceptions.
Now that they've been reduced to maybe a 5% chance of making the postseason the reveling should last the week and then some!
The Fonduing further displayed the blooming that Jordan Addison's career is having. With the current uncertainty at the quarterback position that trajectory for the remaining nine games is blunted as it the outlook for the Norseman & KJ Osborn, fresh off his best game of the season ironically. With all three surpassing 80 yards and the team being another week closer to the return of the best receiver in the League the possibilities for the next man up could not be much better.
Maybe that will be Jaren Hall. He will certainly have an advantage with the playbook over most other possibilities but the veteran experience of the options who are likely to be contacted would take a big chunk out of that differential.
Another selling-point for the targets is that the offensive line was once again up to the task. Green Bay did wrangle three sacks but that's an average number. Having just an average offensive line is still several steps up from years gone by!
The appeal will also come from a defense that has officially turned the corner and is quickly surpassing average. The ineptitude of the opposing offense helped them today but that just took them from very good to nearly clinical. Unlike the scoop & score highlights, the way they did it seems much more predictable, replicate-able. They just managed their various responsibilities to a t and reaped the reward.
With the next five games all being against teams which might flirt with 8-9 but could all be several games worse than that, the defense's trajectory is going nowhere but up!
The haze will linger overnight and possibly til Tuesday or Wednesday but there were plenty of light sources to see through it, keep that in mind!
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