Kirk Cousins will win any day of the week. It doesn’t matter if he finally got one on Monday night.
The Cousins threw 292 yards and two touchdowns, and the Minnesota Vikings beat the Bears 19-13 by a 104-yard kickoff of hunting, by Chicago Cordrell Patterson.
The Cousins won Monday for the first time in 10 careers starting Monday night. He hit Adam Thilan with a six-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter and put Minnesota ahead, and the Vikings (-5–5) had a third win. They broke a four-game losing streak against Chicago (5-5).
“Great to win,” said Cousins. “We will try to build on it now, and it will be just as important to keep this together if we can. It’s really about the rest of the season. ”
Bear’s quarterback Nick Falls landed on a cart in the final minutes of the game. Coach Matt Nagy said Fones’ legs and hip were being evaluated after Minnesota’s Efedi Odingo slipped on his right side when he threw the ball.
Patterson joined Josh Kribs and Leon v Washington as the only player to receive an eight-kick return for a touchdown to join Washington as he ran behind the kickoff early in the second half to give Chicago a 13-7 lead. The longest kickoff in franchise history came back in 1967, leaving Gail Sayers behind 103-yards against Pittsburgh.
Patterson had all the room he needed when he slammed to the side and raised two fingers as he closed in the end zone. “I don’t know what I did, man. “I was blackmailed at the time,” Patterson said.
The crime of conflict
With Nagy handing over those duties in an effort to lift the NFL’s bottom unit, the offensive coordinator Bill Lazore called the plays, with the Bears operating 149 yards. That was their lowest total since they had 147 against San Francisco in December 2017.
“We need to make sure we really honestly go back now and say okay, what’s going on, now we have a little time to really see where we are,” Nagy said.
Fellow threw for 106 yards and interruption. It was a cry from his previous start against the Vikings, as he led Philadelphia on their way to the 2018 Super Bowl title in the NPAC Championship game.
