Is Kirk Cousins Cool Now?

For the first time in his career, Kirk Cousins is a major contributor to one of the best teams in the NFL. From the moment he arrived with the Minnesota Vikings in 2018 with a fully guaranteed contract—which was an absurd amount of money for a guy who was only in the league because Mike Shanahan ran RGIII into dust—Cousins has been carried and arguably been the weakest starter on the team.

Now the Vikings are 7-1 and Kirk has led four 4th quarter comebacks. Look at how his teammates look at him these days:

Kirk Cousins is currently the coolest QB in the NFL pic.twitter.com/QtmTJUpDLB

— Phoenix 🍗🍴 (@dalvincookin) November 6, 2022

My man is jacked?? And covered in jewelry like a Miami University defensive back??

His teammates are smiling and dancing with him instead of rolling their eyes and putting their headphones in when he starts reading bible scriptures and shit???

Last season, former head coach Mike Zimmer straight-up complained about Cousins in team meetings and said he didn’t make enough ‘winning plays’. Zimmer wasn’t even trying to pretend like he could fix him. The man gave up on his quarterback like he was running the Bishop Sycamore team.

Kirk Cousins was famous for the big play on 3rd and long and getting sacked into the Earth’s crust every single time. It was a guaranteed outcome.

Kirk used to be this geek:

October 25th, 2015 🗓

“YOU LIKE THAT?!”

7 years ago today, Kirk Cousins leads Washington back from a 24-0 deficit to beat the Bucs 31-30 😤pic.twitter.com/dzJxhrBRGE

— FanDuel (@FanDuel) October 25, 2022

Absolute dweeb vibes. Cousins was the nerd with a tube full of rocks outside his house to represent some bible verse and the importance of living life or whatever. This loser collects rocks.

Who is the man dancing in that video with the chains??

The team is 7-1 with their only loss being to the undefeated Eagles. Kirk is saving them in the 4th quarter instead of being the reason they lose. While Russell Wilson is doing high knees on the plane with the entire team ignoring him, Cousins and the boys are having the time of their lives together.

Cousins is spending less time at his dad’s weird ass anti-vax church and more time at the gym listening to NBA Youngboy.

I…I think Kirk Cousins might be cool now…

Perhaps we as fans inherently assume that in order for the white quarterback to have any real success he has to be seen as cool through the eyes of his black teammates.

To lead a group of 52 men with 52 individual upbringings and experiences, you’d need to have some ability to get along with every group that forms in the locker room.

You have to be able to jam out to Chris Stapleton and spit tobacco with the offensive linemen while also getting hyped to NBA Youngboy with the receivers and running backs.

I reckon after 10 years in the NFL, Cousins has finally figured out how to turn down his overwhelming “I came in first place at last week’s Magic The Gathering tournament” energy and trick his Vikings teammates into believing he thinks black lives matter.

I’m sick. At the very least, he’s the coolest white guy in the state of Minnesota which I suppose isn’t a high bar to clear. It’s either Kirk, Joe Mauer or Jesse The Body Ventura.

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