Kirk Cousins to start in Vikings-Packers game

Before we get started, I had a chance to meet Dan Hicks earlier on and developed You know, a little bit of a relationship with him, so just want to, you know, send my thoughts and prayers to his family, you know, just incredibly kind, high character, so he'll certainly be missed, so did want to start out with that today, just to provide you guys with some game status updates, Blake Cashman, TJ, Hawkinson, Ty Ingram, Dawkins, Jawan, and Kyler will be out for the football game, Van Noy. And then also just additions from today, a little banged up, but we'll see how they're doing for the game. Jordan Addison and Josh Metellus, you know, just from practice today, both questionable for the game. Everybody else either practiced in full or had their rest day. Kirk Cousins will start the football game. I cannot give him enough credit for coming in here, how he's gone about the week, both him and the coaching staff, you know, getting him ready to go. Working extremely hard, using all the time we possibly can. It's been really impressive what he's been able to do and just the command and just getting right back in the huddle with a lot of guys he's played with, but certainly some guys he hasn't, and it's been something that everybody's been very, very impressed by. So excited to start Kirk in the game, see him play on Sunday, and with that I'll open it up to you guys. What makes Kirk Cousins more quick at quarterback than some of the quarterbacks Specifically about his game that you like. Yeah, I wouldn't really, you know, say, you know, more or I think it's just the things that Kirk has demonstrated over a long career, you know, both, you know, we're joking this is now the third time, you know, I've gotten to coach him either as his position coach or head coach. Look, he's accurate. He's a great decision maker. He understands the game at a very, very high level, understands, you know, the The passing game in the NFL and the rhythm and timing that separates plays from being successful or not. Thank you very much. And then I think on top of it, just the way he's gone about it, the way you feel a command. It's one thing to have command and ownership over plays in a system, and I think we talk a lot about that. But it's more so about his job and his job impacting in a really positive way the other 10 guys in the huddle doing theirs, how he goes about it. The poise, the command in the huddle, the ownership of Cadence, the ownership of the small details that he works really hard at to make sure that he can do those things because he knows how important it is. And he's demonstrated all those in a pretty short amount of time here this week. How do you adjust it tight end? Yeah, so we're working through that, you know, obviously with, you know, five, you know, five players. Okay, you've been listening to head coach Kevin O'Connell announcing that Kirk Cousins, no surprise, will be the starter this Sunday in the border battle at Lambeau Field.