Kirk Cousins Announced Out for Game

Let’s be frank here. The Vikings never had a chance.

With Kirk Cousins out due to testing positive for COVID and his vaccination status preventing an accelerated timeline for return, the Vikings were forced to start Sean Mannion. And despite Cris Collinsworth’s weird complimentary nature of Mannion throughout much of the first half, he was a quarterback clearly in over his head and incapable of doing enough to win his team a football game.

The Vikings’ defense played well enough in the early going that, with a competent…