Mike Florio criticizes Kirk Cousins for taking Tuesday off, going to Twins game
Kirk Cousins, how dare you spend Tuesday taking your young sons to a baseball game!
How dare you, Kirk Cousins, spend time with your family instead of neglecting them in the pursuit of being a sports robot who only cares about winning?
For shame Kirk Cousins for enjoying your kids' childhoods, being a good parent and taking them to a playoff baseball game.
The 1-3 start to the Vikings season may have finally gotten to noted Vikings fan Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. In a seemingly benign post today on PFT's website about Patrick Mahomes and Kirk Cousins playing each other for the first time, Florio proceeded to suggest Cousins hasn't been great because he chooses to spend Tuesdays with his family instead of grinding.
Tuesdays are the typical day off across the NFL. In the Netflix series Quarterback, the Vikings QB divulged that he refuses to work on Tuesdays. If that's your day off every week, what's the problem? Right?
Wrong, according to Florio.
"And here’s where I mention what will be, for many, an unpopular take. (Has that ever stopped me?) With Cousins having an ultimate measuring-stick game only five days away, he spent Tuesday afternoon at a baseball game," Florio writes.
(That baseball game, by the way, saw the Minnesota Twins end an 18-game playoff losing streak, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 – and it was awesome.)
"That’s fine. That’s his prerogative," writes Florio. "But let’s not be surprised by the fact that Mahomes is currently the best quarterback in football, and Cousins is not. From a tangible perspective, Mahomes has the ability to improvise when the play called goes sideways, consistently making chicken salad out of chicken caca."
"From an intangible perspective, Mahomes takes full advantage of the time he has between games to get ready for the next opponent," continues Florio. "The great ones do."
"Do you want to be great," asks Florio. (Italics his)
"Do you? If so, what are you willing to do to be great? What are you willing to sacrifice to be great? Are you willing to work every single day to be great? Because others who aspire to be great are doing exactly that," says Florio.
It's not like Kirk Cousins is the reason the Vikings are 1-3. Through four games he's thrown for more than 1,200 yards including 11 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. Mahomes is just over 1,000 yards with 8 TDs and the same number of interceptions.
Quarterback more than anything else gave fans a glimpse beyond football for these players. They're humans, that have families, and interests outside of the job that makes them uber-wealthy.
"It was one of those moments where I was like 'I'm really doing this. I'm at a pro baseball game, sitting next to my 6-year-old son trying to teach him about the game.' This is what my dad did with me. It was a lot of fun," said Cousins Wednesday when asked about his trip to the game.
What a monster.
