The Vikings restructured Kirk Cousins' contract -- what does it all mean?
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew |
| 0:27.1 | Collar along here with Dr Eric Eager of the Sumer Sports show in Sumer Sports where he co-hosts with former NFL general manager |
| 0:36.7 | Thomas Demetroff and we have really big news to break down Eric. The Vikings a restructured Kirk Cousins contract and if you even just take a little |
| 0:46.4 | peek over at the comment section here in our stream yard box what you can tell is that this thing is being debated quite a bit by fans today. |
| 0:56.7 | Is it great move by Koesi Adafel Menza because it sets them up for the quarterback of the future or is it a 2024 salary cap WTF because they are |
| 1:09.3 | going to take a 28 million dollar dead cap hit if he leaves. I feel like this needs to be a parsing through the facts of what is going on here before we even |
| 1:20.8 | analyze whether we like it or not. |
| 1:22.7 | But hello, by the way, |
| 1:24.4 | and thanks for joining this. |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah, this is great to be here. |
| 1:28.0 | It's great to hang out, talk football. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, there's a lot to digest here, right? |
| 1:33.8 | I think, you know, if you look at all the moves last year |
| 1:38.1 | and into this year, the, you know, funny, |
| 1:41.9 | everything that you guys reported was all true right like |
| 1:45.1 | ownership told them to play you know to play out last year try to win |
| 1:49.2 | they did a bunch of things that were good for twenty twenty two |
| 1:52.4 | and they won, you know, the win 13 and 4, lose the playoffs. |
| 1:57.9 | Now it's like, okay, it's funds over time to rip the bandit off. They cut Adam feeling and they don't post June 1 it, which means they're eating 13 dead here. |
| 2:09.0 | Eric Kendrick's a, you know, Ring of Honor player. He's gone. You do, you know, you kind of leave open the possibility |
| 2:18.1 | for Cook Smith and Smith. You get a couple free agents that kind of make sense for the future and Josh Oliver, you know, Marcus Davenport, although it's just a one-year deal, it kind of sets you up for franchise tag possible extension if you were to be good in this new Brian Flores defense. |
| 2:37.3 | And then the cousins thing happens right and so they open up the caps. |
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