and Hello welcome to an emergency podcast that I'm whispering because I am doing in the Chicago

O'Hare Airport where I was just sitting and waiting for a flight back to Minneapolis from my brother's wedding and the biggest

news of the year broke because of course it did. Of course it came just after I

was at home doing a regular podcast with Sam yesterday.

No, no, no, it had to come at my busiest time.

But we will make time for this.

Kirk Cousins placed on the COVID list

and he will miss the Vikings Sunday night football game

against the Green Bay Packers. Sam Ekstrom is on the phone with me because Sam

I have covered this team long enough that I always keep the recording gear with me.

So give me your reaction to Kirk Cousins going on the COVID list, meaning that Sean

Manion, who is coming off, is very likely to start over Kell and Monde

in Green Bay on Sunday night.

There are so many layers to this, Matthew.

I mean, and this news rings differently today than it would have three months ago as well.

The virus has changed, the protocols have changed, so let's try to unpack all of it, right?

So this was foreshadowed Sunday when Kirk had a very defeated response when I asked him about extra protocols this week

how are you gonna make sure you don't get this now that Sean Mannion has it?

And here's what he said.

Almost resigned to it.

He said, it's in our building.

It's going to be in our building.

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