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Cousins
has 4 TD
passes
as
Vikings
surge
past
Lions
42-30
DETROIT
(AP) —
Kirk
Cousins
matched
a career
high
with
four
touchdown
passes,
leading
the
surging
Minnesota
Vikings
to a
42-30
win over
the
slumping
Detroit
Lions on
Sunday.
The
Vikings
(5-2)
have won
three
consecutive
games in
part
because
their
quarterback
is
making
plays to
complement
one of
the
NFL’s
top
defenses.
Matthew
Stafford
also
threw
four
touchdown
passes,
all to
Marvin
Jones,
and
became
the
fastest
to reach
40,000
yards
passing
in NFL
history.
And
Jones
became
the
first
Lions
player
in the
Super
Bowl era
with
four
receiving
TDs in a
game.
The
Lions
(2-3-1)
dropped
their
third
straight
game
after a
2-0-1
start
and they
probably
can’t
complain
too much
about
officiating
in their
latest
setback.
The
Lions
had some
critical
penalty
calls go
against
them in
a 23-22
loss to
Green
Bay on
Monday
night.
Detroit’s
defense
simply
couldn’t
get
Cousins
off the
field on
Sunday.
Cousins
was 24
of 34
for a
season-high
337
yards
and four
TDs
without
an
interception.
He led
the
Vikings
on four
straight
TD
drives
starting
in the
first
quarter
and
ending
in the
third,
going
ahead
for the
first
time on
a 5-yard
pass to
C.J. Ham
to make
it
28-21.
Cousins
threw a
fourth
TD pass
for the
second
straight
game,
and
sixth
time in
his
career,
on a
15-yard
pass to
Kyle
Rudolph
to put
Minnesota
ahead by
11
points
with
5:46 to
go.
After
Stafford
threw a
season-high
fourth
TD with
3:10
remaining,
the
Vikings
sealed
the
victory.
Cousins
lofted a
long
pass to
Stefon
Diggs on
a
second-and-5
from his
30 and
the
speedy
receiver
took a
66-yard
reception
to the
Lions 4
to set
up
Dalvin
Cook’s
TD run.
Cook had
142
yards
rushing
and two
TDs on
25
carries.
Diggs
had
seven
receptions
for 142
yards.
Adam
Thielen
caught
the
first of
four TD
passes
from
Cousins
in the
first
quarter
and the
receiver
didn’t
return
because
of a
hamstring
injury.
Stafford
was 30
of 45
for 364
yards
with
four TD
passes
and an
interception
on his
last
possession.
Jones
had 10
receptions
for four
TDs,
matching
his best
total
from
2013
when he
played
for
Cincinnati.
Danny
Amendola
had
eight
receptions
for 105
yards.
INJURIES
Vikings:
Thielen
had a
game-ending
hamstring
injury
in the
first
quarter
after he
was hurt
while
scoring
his
seventh
touchdown
of the
season.
DE
Everson
Griffen
limped
off the
field in
the
third
quarter.
Lions:
RB
Kerryon
Johnson
(knee)
and CB
Darius
Slay
(hamstring)
were
injured
during
the game
and did
not
return.
UP NEXT
Vikings:
Host
Washington
on
Thursday
night.
Lions:
Host the
New York
Giants
on
Sunday.
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