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Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin
Cook said he’s confident the team will win its first Super Bowl title
during his tenure alongside wide receiver Justin Jefferson.
“We gon’ win us one,” Cook
told TMZ Sports in an interview released Sunday, though he wouldn’t
put an exact timetable on bringing a championship to the Twin Cities. “We
gon’ win us one. Yeah.”
Cook, Jefferson and wideout Adam
Thielen combined to create one of the NFL’s most productive
playmaking trios in 2021 as they scored 26 total touchdowns.
Their strong performance didn’t lead to
consistent team success, however, as the Vikings missed the playoffs
with an 8-9 record.
Minnesota has reached the postseason
twice since Cook was drafted in 2017. It reached the NFC Championship
Game during his rookie year and made it to the divisional round in
2019. Jefferson joined the roster in 2020 and has quickly emerged as
one of the NFL’s top receivers.
The Vikes are hoping a coaching change
can bring an end to their brief two-year playoff drought. They hired
former Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell as
their new head coach to replace Mike Zimmer, who was fired in January
after eight years in charge.
“I hope to bring a lot of those
characteristics to our football team here that he’s instilled that
just helped us win a world championship,” O’Connell told
reporters about working under Rams head coach Sean McVay following
the team’s triumph in Super Bowl LVI last weekend.
Cook, Jefferson and Thielen are all
under team control through at least 2024, so the biggest question in the
Vikings’ pursuit of a championship is whether Kirk Cousins is the
answer at quarterback. He’s under contract for next season, so he’ll
likely get one more year to prove he’s the right person for the job, but
the team could move in a new direction next offseason if the results
don’t improve.
Ultimately, the Vikings have the
offensive playmaking talent to make a serious championship push over
the next couple of years, but there’s work to do elsewhere on the roster
to reach that goal.
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