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"I've been telling the O-line all week, just roll, just get in front of guys and I'm going to do the rest, I'm going to make a play for you guys," Cook said. "So hats off to [O'Neill] and all those guys for just getting in front of guys and making plays for me to open up seams. I just seen daylight and just ran."
Added Kendricks: "Man, I mean just the blockers downfield. The way he set it up, it was perfect. He ended up in the end zone. And that's what Dalvin does. He finds a way to run with his pads and run with heart, and he uses his speed when he needs to. He cuts when he needs."
On the ground, Cook tallied a pair of 1-yard touchdown runs to go along with a 21-yard scoring scamper. He now leads the NFL with 10 rushing touchdowns, a franchise record for the most through Week 8 of a season.
He scored a pair of touchdowns in each half, but his first two made sure the Vikings kept pace with the Packers as each team scored on their first two possessions.
"In the first game of the year, they came out and controlled the time of possession by more than 20 minutes, I think," Cook said of Green Bay's 41 minutes and 16 seconds of ball control in Week 1. "Just us going out there and matching score-for-score at the beginning was an ideal situation for us going into the halftime.