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Dalvin Cook's 'game cheats you' comment was not a shot at Kirk Cousins

Cook and the Jets will play without Aaron Rodgers the rest of the season.

Joe Nelson

Dalvin Cook's 'game cheats you' comment was not a shot at Kirk Cousins
Dalvin Cook's 'game cheats you' comment was not a shot at Kirk Cousins /

Is Kirk Cousins one of the greats? He's arguably one of the 10-15 best quarterbacks in the NFL today, but no one is putting his name next to Joe Montana, Tom Brady, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers. 

That's why if anyone takes what he said Wednesday as a cheap shot at Cousins, they're wrong. Cook was expressing disappointment about not being able to take a handoff from Aaron Rodgers before the future Hall of Fame quarterback tore his Achilles in his Jets debut. 

"I just wanted to take a carry from 8, man. Just get one from a great, man. Like I said, the game cheats you sometimes and I didn't get that," Cook said Wednesday. 

Some Cousins fans were quick to jump on the quote as a slight at the Vikings QB.

Rodgers has four MVPs and a Super Bowl to his name. Cousins, despite some really great stats, is way below .500 in his career against opponents with a winning record. There's a big difference between the two and Dalvin Cook is well aware of that fact. 

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JOE NELSON

Title: Bring Me The Sports co-owner, editor Email: joe@bringmethenews.com Twitter: @JoeBMTN Education: Southwest Minnesota State University Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Expertise: All things Minnesota sports Nelson has covered Minnesota sports for two decades, starting his media career in sports radio. He worked at small market Minnesota stations in Marshall and St. Cloud before joining one of the nation's highest-rated sports stations, KFAN-FM 100.3 in the Twin Cities. There, he was the producer of the top-rated mid-morning sports show with Minnesota Vikings announcer Paul Allen.  His radio experience helped blossom a career as a sports writer, joining Minneapolis-based Bring Me The News in 2011.  Nelson and Adam Uren became co-owners of Bring Me The News in 2018 and have since more than tripled the site's traffic and launched Bring Me The Sports in cooperation with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation umbrella. Nelson has covered the Super Bowl and numerous training camps, NFL combines, the MLB All-Star Game and Minnesota playoff games, in addition to the day-to-day happenings on and off the field of play.  Nelson also has extensive knowledge of non-sports subjects, including news and weather. He works closely with Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard to produce a bevy of weather and climate information for Minnesota readers.  Nelson helped launch and manage the Bring Me The News Radio Network, which provided more than 50 radio stations around Minnesota with daily news, sports and weather reports from 2011-17. 

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