Kirk Cousins Goes to The Raiders + Are The Cardinals Eyeing Ty Simpson?

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks breakdown Kirk Cousins signing with the Las Vegas Raiders and what it means for the rest of the league. They also analyze whether the Arizona Cardinals are targeting Ty Simpson and review key Pro Day performances from Fernando Mendoza and other Indiana prospects.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks, DJ and Buck with you, Buck. What's going on, man? Not too much. Just in the middle of the hustle, past his draft and all things every good. It's all good.
0:21.9	Yeah,
0:22.3	there you go.
0:22.9	Who we got today?
0:39.7	Who we got on the show today? What are we going to do the McCoy thing we did yesterday? Yeah, we got the McCoy thing. They were doing DJU letting insider seekers out. They shouldn't know what was taped yesterday. But yeah, So is that, then it's Mark Ross, Cynthia, Freeland, me and Red.
0:40.6	There you go.
0:54.7	A little path to the draft. Be able to check that out. We had a fun conversation with Jermad McCoy, the corner from Tennessee, so that'll be on there and a lot of the good stuff there. So check that out. Buck, I want to start us off here today and get rolling. It's time for hot or not brought to you by Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and hot off the press. This morning is
1:00.2	the Raiders following Fernando Mendoza's Pro Day, which we will get to, have made a move to get
1:06.6	Kirk Cousins, bringing him into the building with a creative contract, which I love,
1:15.6	that cracks me up because they are going to make the Atlanta Falcons pay the price.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:18.6	It was $10 million owed to Kirk.
1:20.6	Whatever he signs for this year gets offset.
1:22.5	So that saves the Falcons some money.
1:27.4	So if Kirk signs a $10 million contract with the Raiders, guess what?
1:29.2	The Falcons don't have to pay them a dime.
1:30.2	No, no, no.
1:33.3	They are going to do the minimum for $1.3 million.
1:41.3	Put the Falcons on the hook for the $8.7 million, but then have a kicker with an automatic guarantee going into the next year for $10 million. So basically it's like, okay, the Raiders, like right now for us, you know, for what I'm going to do for this team, be this starter here for a year. That's a, that's a $10 million service. But I'm actually going to make, you're going to pay the 10 million, but let's not let the falcons off the hook. Let's make the Falcons pay 10 million as well.
2:02.8	So Kirk can end up getting 20 million out of this year and next year out of this whole deal.
2:07.9	So creative contract, but serves the purpose for what John Spitech, the GM,
2:12.5	and what Tom Brady, one of their owners, minority owners, has talked about,
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