It took a while, but we may have finally gotten a glimpse of what Kyle Shanahan has seen in Kirk Cousins all these years.
Cousins shook off his reputation for not delivering in the big games by coming through in the biggest way, coolly leading the Vikings to a 26-20 overtime victory in New Orleans in the wild-card round Sunday.
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The quarterback who once seemed ticketed to the 49ers as Shanahan’s hand-picked quarterback now comes to Santa Clara on Saturday intent on causing the 49ers coach the kind of grief he went through more than two years ago.