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Derrik Klassen
Derrik has been an NFL and CFB writer since 2013. Over the years, Derrik has gravitated toward analyzing quarterbacks and the passing game in general. Derrik currently works for Football Outsiders and has previously been published by SB Nation, ESPN, Bleacher Report, Rotoworld, and others.
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Kirk Cousins Wasn’t Culpable in the Vikings Close Game Against the Bears
By Derrik Klassen - Nov 17, 2020
Monday night’s game ended with a 19-13 final score after a fourth-quarter touchdown that put the Minnesota Vikings ahead. By all accounts it was a close game […]
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Why Kirk Cousins Kept Throwing to His Right Against Detroit
By Derrik Klassen - Nov 9, 2020
Make it two weeks in a row where quarterback Kirk Cousins does not need to be anything but a play-action robot and checkdown dispenser. From a pure […]
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Less Was More For Kirk Cousins Against the Packers
By Derrik Klassen - Nov 2, 2020
Kirk Cousins played his best game of the year on Sunday. “Played” might be an exaggeration of what Cousins had to do, though. By the end of […]
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Deep Dive on Kirk Cousins’ First Half Meltdown Against the Falcons
By Derrik Klassen - Oct 19, 2020
My send-off for last week’s Kirk Cousins deep dive was: “At least the Vikings now get a pseudo-bye week against the Atlanta Falcons followed by a legit […]
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Why Didn’t Kirk Cousins Throw Deep More Against Seattle?
By Derrik Klassen - Oct 12, 2020
It feels as though every Kirk Cousins performance this season has been some form of extreme, whether that was necessarily his fault or not. Think about the […]
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Play-Action Was the Key to Kirk Cousins’ Stellar Week 4 Performance
By Derrik Klassen - Oct 5, 2020
Week 3’s loss against the Titans provided a glimmer of hope from Kirk Cousins. Despite the two interceptions on the stat sheet, Cousins played a mostly impressive […]
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Kirk Cousins’ Week 3 Performance Offers a Sliver of Hope
By Derrik Klassen - Sep 28, 2020
Every week this season is a new adventure through a forest of pain and misfortune. Mind-numbing interceptions, getting almost entirely choked out of time of possession, a […]
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Kirk Cousins Simply Was Not Accurate Against the Indianapolis Colts
By Derrik Klassen - Sep 21, 2020
The Indianapolis Colts allowed Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew to complete 95% of his passes and coast to an easy win in Week 1. They were giving up […]
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Breaking Down Kirk Cousins’ Perplexing Performance Against Green Bay
By Derrik Klassen - Sep 14, 2020
Usually when you look at Kirk Cousins‘ box score after a game, you know exactly how he played, for better or worse. For that reason, though, his […]
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Film Breakdown: The Screen Game Could Unlock the Minnesota Vikings Offense in Week 1
By Derrik Klassen - Sep 10, 2020
A couple weeks ago, we looked into Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings’ offensive collapse in their two games against the Green Bay Packers last season. Each […]
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Film Breakdown: What Bisi Johnson Brings to the Vikings Offense in Year 2
By Derrik Klassen - Sep 3, 2020
254 players were selected in the 2019 NFL Draft, but only seven were drafted after Colorado State wide receiver Olabisi Johnson — and one of them was […]
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Film Breakdown: What Went Wrong For Kirk Cousins in the 2019 Border Battle Games
By Derrik Klassen - Aug 27, 2020
Last week, we kicked off a two-part series examining how two offenses from the same coaching tree produced vastly different results when their teams faced off last […]