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Doug Farrar

Anatomy of a Play: Kirk Cousins’ game-ending fourth-down throw wasn’t his fault

You want your quarterback to come up big in the biggest possible moments. Kirk Cousins hasn’t done that to a degree that would satisfy his detractors throughout his NFL career, so when he threw a three-yard pass to tight end T.J. Hockenson on fourth-and-8 with 1:51 left in the game, and the Minnesota Vikings down, 31-24, those detractors had even more fuel than they had before. To those anti-Cousins stans, this was yet another example of Cousins writing checks he couldn’t cash.

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