Vikings Territory: The 4 Predominant Opinions About Kirk Cousins This Week

Press release from Vikings Territory:

August 2, 2021

The Minnesota Vikings were without three quarterbacks on Saturday at training camp. Kirk Cousins, Kellen Mond, and Nate Stanley were absent due to COVID-related dealings.

Jake Browning took all snaps at Saturday’s night practice, looking sharp while doing so. Because he was available and Cousins plus Stanley were not, the implication is that neither Cousins nor Stanley is vaccinated.

These are the four Cousins-related opinions after the vaccine bedlam.

The “Cousins Is a Very Good QB, but He Should Be Vaccinated” group is comprised of those that defend his talents but also want to adhere to the legitimacy of science. That is – it is the mentality that leaders lead, and Cousins should lead as a football player on the field and in the locker room for life matters like the coronavirus vaccination.

This segment of folks is the closest to “Cousins can do no wrong.” They champion his talents, injury-free availability, and standing as the Vikings QB1. After all, Cousins has never missed a professional football game due to injury. Since the start of 2015, Cousins, Russell Wilson, and Tom Brady are the only active quarterbacks to avoid missing games altogether due to injury. Philip Rivers was on this list, too, but he retired this offseason.

On the recent events of Cousins missing portions of training camp because of Mond’s contraction of the virus, this crowd would prefer that Cousins bounce back later this week – with his personal decision on the vaccination wholly up to him. The fallout for the Vikings as a team is secondary to Cousins’ individual choice.

This can be considered the savagery-no-matter-what fragment of Cousins opinion holders. Primarily, they claim he isn’t very good, massively overpaid, and then he chooses to hinder his team because of a stubborn vaccine stance. This is probably the most rapid pack of Cousins detractors – and they’re out there.

Along the way, it doesn’t really matter if he’s unvaccinated, per them, because he won’t lead the Vikings to much of anything anyway. It’s his choice to be vaccinated – and even he is, Minnesota isn’t going anywhere with him in the saddle.

These are the camps. Cousins is one of the few sports personalities that cannot be figured out by the fans of his own team. His numbers are strangely comparable – and even exceed – those of Matthew Stafford’s, but the narratives surrounding Cousins and Stafford are fundamentally opposite. Stafford is a darling whereas Cousins is scrutinized.

This press release was produced by Vikings Territory. The views expressed here are the author’s own.