Vikings' defense ruins a Kirk Cousins gem against the Lions

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🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Matthew Coller and Paul Hodowanic talk about an historically bad day for the Minnesota Vikings' defense, which has been struggling for weeks. They gave up 34 points and over 400 yards to the Lions. Kirk Cousins played about the best he could possibly play and Justin Jefferson had the best receiving game in franchise history, yet Detroit's passing game could not be stopped. Are there any answers left or is this simply the way the Vikings will play when they get to the playoffs? Is it time to have a conversation about changing defensive coordinators? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Purple Insider is presented by Liquid Death, delicious water that's bringing death to plastic.
0:05.7	Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Oh, Hello, welcome to the Minnesota Vikings could not stop anything on defense and lost at Ford Field to the Detroit Lions who have
0:36.6	officially restored their roar in a 34 to 23 win. We'll just start out by saying Matthew Coller Paul Hodawannick
0:45.2	welcome after every game we do this live on YouTube if you guys are watching
0:50.0	us there welcome and if you're listening on the podcasts, well, sorry that it went that way.
0:56.2	One of the games that actually did not end in one score, and interestingly, the Vikings have three losses,
1:02.0	and none of them are one score losses, yet their wins are mostly one score wins, which we can get into how much that means. But I guess where I have to begin is the Vikings defense ruined one of Kirk
1:17.0	Cousins best performances I don't want to say of his Vikings tenure because there's been quite a few of them but this was the
1:24.8	2021-y-est 2021 thing that I've ever seen on this day. It was cousins delivering
1:31.3	the ball all over the place to Justin Jefferson a legendary performance. Oh, you shut him down once Detroit
1:38.4	Congratulations you weren't going to do it again and the Vikings could have been easily blown out in this game if not for Justin Jefferson. Detroit would have run away with this one in 140 to 12, but instead Jefferson Goes Legend sets the single game record. Kirk
1:56.1	Cousins played a super tough game. They had no running game whatsoever. It was all
2:01.1	on his shoulders. He delivered pass after pass. He hit
2:04.8	Hawkinson left and right, even though he dropped one and tried to drop another.
2:09.0	He found Thieland for a touchdown. Osbourne for a touchdown. It was a complete passing game that we have been looking for all year and Paul they let it slip away because they could not stop the Detroit Lions
2:23.3	to save their lives.
2:24.9	I, everything, everything was wrong, everything.
2:28.1	They did not pressure Jared Goff.
2:30.2	There were open receivers all over the place. There were miscommunications that led to the Jameson Williams touchdown, which of course it is pointed out in the comments section rightfully that Jefferson wasn't even out of bounds so it could have even been a better day for Justin Jefferson is absurd as that is and to let that one become a loss.
2:53.3	I know it doesn't blow up the season.
2:55.6	I know that it doesn't cause them to miss the playoffs.
2:58.6	All it does is delay by about six days
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