Last Updated: October 30, 2023, 02:30 IST
GREEN BAY, Wis.: Kirk Cousins threw a pair of landing passes before leaving with an ankle injury in the fourth quarter and the Minnesota Vikings beat the slumping Green Bay Packers 24-10 on Sunday.
Cousins walked gingerly to the sideline after getting sacked on consecutive performs throughout a sequence that ended with Green Bay’s Karl Brooks blocking Greg Joseph’s 44-yard subject-objective try. Jaren Hall, a rookie fifth-spherical choose from BYU, took over for the remainder of the sport.
This marked the primary Packers-Vikings matchup since 2006 in which each groups entered the sport with shedding information, however Minnesota bought again to .500 on Sunday with its third consecutive victory.
Now the Vikings (4-4) should ponder whether they’re going to need to attempt persevering with this surge with out Cousins, who went 23 of 31 for 274 yards. Cousins has by no means missed a sport due to injury in his 12-yr profession, although he did sit out a sport at Green Bay in the course of the 2021 season due to a constructive COVID-19 take a look at.
Minnesota’s T.J. Hockenson and Jordan Addison had landing receptions lower than two minutes aside early in the third quarter. Cam Akers put Minnesota forward for good in the opening interval by giving the Vikings their first landing run of the season.
The Packers (2-5) misplaced their fourth straight and continued their penchant for sluggish begins. The Packers have been outscored 73-9 in the primary half of their previous 5 video games and haven’t scored a landing before halftime in any of them.
Minnesota dominated the primary two quarters, however solely led 10-3 on the break largely due to missed alternatives. But the Vikings wasted no time breaking the sport open early in the third quarter.
Cousins’ 2-yard landing go to Hockenson capped a 13-play, 75-yard drive to start the second half. On the Packers’ ensuing possession, Jordan Love threw deep to Jayden Reed, however Josh Metellus made a spectacular catch with his again to the quarterback after which delivered a 43-yard interception return to present the Vikings the ball on the Green Bay 20.
On the subsequent play, Cousins related with Jordan Addison in the top zone to increase Minnesota’s result in 24-3 with 7:48 left in the third.
Green Bay lastly reached the top zone on Love’s 1-yard go to Romeo Doubs on fourth-and-objective late in the third quarter to chop the result in 24-10, however the Packers couldn’t get any nearer regardless of regularly reaching Vikings territory in the fourth quarter.
The drive that adopted Brooks’ blocked subject objective ended with the Packers shedding the ball on downs on the Minnesota 10-yard line. Hall fumbled whereas getting sacked on his third snap to present Green Bay the ball on the Minnesota 15, however the Packers once more misplaced the ball on downs. The Packers’ remaining sequence ended with a fourth down incompletion from the Minnesota 34.
Love ended up going 24 of 41 for 229 yards with one landing and an interception.
Minnesota might have put this sport out of attain a lot earlier.
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With 5 minutes left in the second quarter, the Vikings had a 182-26 benefit in whole offense and a 13-0 edge in first downs. The Packers already had dedicated eight of their 11 penalties by that time.
Green Bay didn’t get a primary down till its fifth sequence when Love threw an 11-yard completion to Christian Watson with simply over 4 minutes left in the primary half. The play drew a coronary heart and sarcastic spherical of applause from a Lambeau Field crowd annoyed by Green Bay’s first-half failures.
INJURY REPORT
Vikings DL Dean Lowry left with a groin injury in the primary half. … Packers OT Yosh Nijman harm his foot late in the sport.
UP NEXT
Vikings: At Atlanta subsequent Sunday.
Packers: Host the Los Angeles Rams subsequent Sunday.
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