Addison's big game on Sunday serves as a silver lining to the Jefferson injury news.
, meaning the Vikings will be without their best player and one of the NFL's top receivers for at least four games.
"How can we continue to activate a lot of things when a lot of our pass game has really been built around so much coverage being deployed to Justin?" O'Connell said."We got a lot of double teams yesterday, a lot of physical play at the line of scrimmage for him that opened some things up for some other guys. Whether people decide to play us a little more straight up or true, how we run it maybe against some looks that, quite frankly, we don’t get a whole lot .
"Jordan is the real deal," Cousins said after the game."We hit on that draft pick. He's a great player. Has great hands and runs great routes."
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