"So, I know they are going to get a lot of double coverage and things like that, that's going to leave me wide open or one on one where I can make a play." "I play with two amazing wide receivers: Adam Thielen with his 50th touchdown reception today, Justin Jefferson, the best in the league," Osborn said. Osborn finished with five catches for 73 yards and Thielen caught six passes for 61 yards and a touchdown, as the Lions focused much of their attention on taking Jefferson out of the game. One play earlier, Cousins found Osborn for 28 yards on a crossing route after the Lions double-teamed Jefferson. "I extended him and kept my leverage and then lost him, threw my hands out, and Kirk threw a great ball as always." "I saw where the nickel was and it looked like he was about to blitz," Osborn said. Sunday, his corner route helped the Vikings take the lead for the first - and only - time in their 28-24 win over the Lions. In Week 6, he caught a 27-yard game-winner in overtime against the Panthers. Osborn caught a fourth-down pass on the Vikings' game-tying drive in last year's season opener, helping them send the game to overtime in Cincinnati. When you have Adam, Justin, Dalvin, Alex Mattison, Irv Smith, you don't feel the pressing need maybe to give him those, but then in two-minute again today he takes advantage of them and shows up." "So the plays he was making in two-minute last year, I realized, there is a lot more to this guy than maybe we're giving him the to do. a lot in two-minute: he was now in primary spots, where during the normal game he was in secondary, tertiary spots, if you will.
It just kind of happens, whoever is open. "In the two-minute you sort of have guys in their spots and you don't really move people around, so it ends up being a more organic way of getting people the football, if that makes sense. "So much of a game plan you devise to try to get certain people opportunities, so you move people around to create that," Cousins said. He has 20 catches on 31 targets in those situations since the start of 2021 Jefferson has 19 catches on 32 targets, and Thielen has 16 catches on 22 targets.Ĭonsidering that Cousins ranks second in the NFL in completions (77) and attempts (136) while placing third in yards (840) in two-minute situations since the beginning of last year, Osborn's emergence has been critical to the Vikings' performance in those spots. Those number pale in comparison, of course, to Justin Jefferson's (126 catches on 196 targets) and lag behind the ones Thielen has posted (80 catches on 114 targets) in 16 games.īut in two-minute situations, when the Vikings' offense becomes more egalitarian, Osborn has thrived.
Osborn, who played his first offensive snaps for the Vikings in 2021, has 60 catches on 96 targets in 20 games since then.
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