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Mike Florio breaks down reports that the Vikings are not willing to give Kirk Cousins a fully guaranteed contract and assesses how much longer the QB can perform at a high level. #NBCSports #ProFootballTalk #KirkCousins
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Free agency is coming in three weeks and there’s going to be a lot of quarterbacks available with experience starting in games some of them good some of them not as good trying to be tactful here I’m trying to be nice ju just some of the names Kirk Cousins Baker Mayfield

Ryan tanah Hill Joe Flaco comeback player of the year for 2023 plans on playing again in 2024 even though he was ignored until November 20 of last season jacobe brassette Mitchell trubisky he’s already available he was released by the Steelers last week Tyrod Taylor Marcus Mariota Sam darnold who looked good in

Very limited work for the 49ers last year Drew lock who looked very good when he had an opportunity last year for the Seahawks and Gardner mshu who was great for the Colts almost took them to the playoffs playoffs after Anthony Richardson was lost for the year and I

Can’t remember a class this deep of former starters and there’s others I’ve left off and they’re free agents that doesn’t even include Justin Fields who’s potentially available via trade and it just makes me wonder how this is all going to play out oh I I didn’t even

Mention Jimmy garolo I’m going to talk about him in a minute he’s going to be released by the Raiders he joins that list as well he was Once Upon a Time the highest paid player in the NFL not for very long but he was so how’s this all going to shake out

What are these teams going to do and we wrote last night on PFT about the report from Albert Breer of si.com that the Vikings don’t want to give Kirk Cousins a fully guaranteed contract now they didn’t do a Deshawn Watson five-year fully guaranteed contract when they first signed him in 2018 it was

Three years 28 a half million I think which was for a brief period of time the high water mark for all NFL quarterbacks but it was three years and then they extended it it was always like a two or a threeyear commitment now that cousins

Is is about to be a free agent there’s no way the Vikings can keep him from being a free agent they don’t want to do a fully guaranteed contract the next question is will another team want to do it he’s going to be 36 in August he’s coming off of a

Torn Achilles tendon can he get a fully guaranteed deal whether it’s three years four years five years doubtful and I can’t help but wonder whether or not post Deshawn Watson there’s still a lingering sense of unspoken collusion among the owners that they’re not going to do it that

They’re not going to do fully guaranteed contracts for veteran quarterbacks because we want to be sure that everyone knows who boss and we’re just not going to do it there’s a pending collusion grievance that was filed in late 2022 about the failure of teams to give certain veteran quarterbacks fully

Guaranteed contracts and look it’s human nature anytime somebody tries to tell you you can’t do something it’s human nature to say screw you I’m going to do it anyway and I think the more power and money and influence a person has the more inclined they are to use every lever available to tell

Anyone who’s paying attention I’m going to do that thing you’re trying to get me to not do and so will anyone offer Kirk Cousins a fully guaranteed contract now last year part of the cover story for a team like the Falcons coincidentally to not pursue Lamar Jackson a year after the Falcons

Were in the mix to get Deshawn Watson the cover story was well well we got to give up two first round picks and he’s got injury history and the Ravens might match the offer they’ve got the right to do so the Vikings have none of that this year there’s no compensation there’s no

Right to match there’s nothing if you want him you go get him you go pay him you go offer him the contract that gets him to say yes and ignore whatever belated effort the Vikings might undertake to try to get him to change his mind they can do it anyone can do it

Will it be a fully gued contract you know last time around when he hit the open market cousins had two teams pursuing him Vikings and the Jets he picked the Vikings and he got that three-year fully guaranteed contract I just wonder I wonder how many teams are

Really going to pursue a guy who’s going to be 36 in August who’s coming off at Tor killes tendon when You’ got all these other quarterbacks that I’ve been mentioning that I listed available in free agency headlined by Baker Mayfield is the top alternative to Kirk Cousins

You’ve got the potential poal to trade for ad Justin fields and you’ve got the potential to draft a guy is someone going to pursue Kirk Cousins aggressively as aggressively as the Vikings did in 2018 when aggressive meant fending off the Jets that’s it so we’ll see we shall see and we’ll see whether

Or not there’s any suggestion of collusion we’ll see if cousins gets a fully guaranteed contract we’ll see if someone else offers enough that the Vikings won’t can’t even begin to attempt to match and you know I was probably a little too binary in my choices that the Vikings have

Either they don’t want him or they do and if they don’t want him they’re just being nice while he pursues other options and he goes away and they act like they’re upset but they’re really not or they do want him and they’re playing at Koy thinking that he’ll find

Out that no one else is going to pay what the Vikings would pay it also could be that the Vikings are in the middle where they want him on their own terms hey if he wants to stay and he’s willing to take this fine if he’s not willing to

Take what we’re willing to pay then see you later we’ll go elsewhere we’ll find someone else who can work with Kevin oconnell and run this system and become a great quarterback because of the system not because of the quarterback see that’s really the question is it a situation where the

Vikings system will work if you find a guy that can run it and who is in it long enough so that Kevin oconnell is talking to him before the play they’re working together and after one or two or three years it all comes together and it

All takes off which maybe it would do this year with Kirk Cousins third year in the system but how many more years are you going to get from Kirk Cousins now he seems to think he can play into his 40s he said that when we met with

Him at the Super Bowl a week and a half ago but KY how much longer can a guy go beyond his 40th birthday the legs will go the arm will be there you got to be able to make quick decisions though in order to make up for the fact that you can’t move

Around like you used to and cousins was never a guy who was going to take the play that didn’t work and transform it into a play that does by buying time horizontally or taking off vertically sometimes he does not very often and he’s not going to get any faster as he

Gets older he’s not going to be more agile as he gets older so bottom line is maybe the Vikings position is we have a number that we have determined as to what we’ll budget to pay Kirk Cousins if he wants it great if he doesn’t great or activate plan b or

Maybe plan a maybe plan a is we hope he doesn’t take it maybe plan a is we’re going to try to draft a guy who will be the quarterback for the next 10 or 15 years hi it’s Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe

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