00:00So Kirk Cousins gets traded.
00:01We all kind of knew what was going to happen.
00:03I was at the boxing gym when it went down and it was wild.
00:07The whole gym was like, oh my gosh, Kirk Cousins got traded.
00:09And I was like for a third round pick.
00:11And they're like, yup.
00:12How did you know that?
00:12I was like, cause that wasn't going to be the asking price for Kirk Cousins.
00:16Like we just, we, we knew this was going to happen.
00:19Cousins sent for a third round pick after the disastrous trade with JJ McCarthy.
00:26They had no choice, but to go ahead and do this.
00:28They traded McCarthy.
00:30Carson Wentz was awful.
00:32Kyler Murray's not the answer.
00:34And so they bring back Kirk Cousins, a guy that probably should have never left Minnesota,
00:38but they didn't resign him.
00:40He went to Atlanta, Atlanta screwed him over with the drafting of Michael Penix.
00:44So he winds up going elsewhere.
00:46I love this move.
00:48I really don't get everybody who is shooting this down.
00:51It's a little weird to me to be quite honest about Kirk Cousins being a veteran.
00:55He is a washed up journeyman.
00:57I'm hearing all of these things like Kirk Cousins in a competent offense.
01:01And I'm not saying that Kevin O'Connell's offense is going to be great, but he knows it.
01:06He was highly productive inside of it.
01:08Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and, and Hawkinson and the running backs and the offensive line.
01:13Like he's going to, it's plug and play.
01:15He's going to step in and ultimately instantly upgrade the position for Minnesota.
01:20So I don't understand this.
01:23Like the Kirk Cousins suddenly find the fountain of youth.
01:25Have you watched Raider games this year?
01:27Have you watched him play?
01:29He's been very, very good.
01:31And so you could say, oh, that's Kubiak or that's Brock Bowers.
01:35Fine.
01:36But this year in 2026, Kirk Cousins has been a very good quarterback.
01:42And getting him, if you're the Vikings, getting him for just a third round pick, I would have held out
01:47for more.
01:48That is kind of expensive.
01:50I get it, but I would have held up.
01:51I would want a second round pick for Kirk Cousins.
01:54He's a quarterback for goodness sakes.
01:55He is owed $10 million next year guaranteed.
01:58So the team, the Vikings have to pick that up.
02:01So that'll be interesting to see how they navigate the future salary cap and paying of quarterbacks and who the
02:06quarterback of the future is for the Vikings.
02:07But they don't care about that right now.
02:09They want to win right now.
02:11What is interesting is that the books don't necessarily agree that the Vikings are a contender.
02:16They're still 22 to one this morning.
02:19They're 22 to one this morning to win it all.
02:22They're behind the Packers.
02:24They're behind the Lions.
02:26They're behind the Bears.
02:28With this defense, that is a very interesting reaction to the post-trade deadline Minnesota Vikings.
02:36So the market's telling us that they don't believe in Kirk Cousins, that they don't think this guy is going
02:41to be an instant impact to change things dramatically.
02:44I kind of do.
02:46I kind of do.
02:47I think he's going to step in and be a huge weapon for this team.
02:52On top of the fact that they love him, a video came out last night from NFL Films.
02:57From when Kirk Cousins played the Vikings and he was with the Falcons and every player, including Kevin O'Connell,
03:04the head coach, every player came over and said, I love you to Kirk Cousins.
03:08Like, I love you, bro.
03:09I love you, man.
03:10Great to see you.
03:10How are the kids?
03:11How are the family?
03:11How's the wife?
03:12Like, he has personal relationships with so many players still with the Vikings.
03:17And having him go back there from a leadership standpoint, from a stability standpoint, he's an adult.
03:26He's walking into that room with instant respect.
03:30I think I'm so high on this move.
03:32I am gigantic.
03:34I was so out on the Vikings.
03:36I bet against the Vikings the last two weeks.
03:38I was so out on them because of the quarterback play.
03:41Carson Wentz, Kyler Murray.
03:42Like, it was, they were frauds.
03:44I mean, honest to God, look at the roster.
03:46It was a great roster except for the most important position at quarterback.
03:50Well, they fixed that gigantic, gigantic move yesterday for Minnesota.
