Twitter isn't being too kind to Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings following their upset 31-24 home loss in the NFL Wild-Card Round at the hands of Daniel Jones and the visiting New York Giants. The Vikings got virtually doomed when Cousins, on a 4th and 8 and with Minnesota's season on the line, decided to throw a check down that went just for three yards — way short of what his team needed to secure a first down.

Of course, reactions to that Kirk Cousins play have been brutal from Vikings fans and NFL fans in general.

“A long off season ahead for Kirk Cousins after that 4th down throw,” Bill Simmons of The Ringer said. “The 3 yard out when you need 8. Wow wow wow wow wow. Even Matt Patricia wouldn’t have called that.”

Brandon Walker also said that that pass was nothing more than a Kirk Cousins classic: “Throwing a 3-yard pass on 4th and 8 to end your season is the most Kirk Cousins thing of all time.”

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