Practicing Patience with Vikings Next Moves

I’m really excited for the new regime changes and am hopeful they will help bring us to the promised land! In light of these hires, I’m thinking Kirk Cousins is likely to stay on, which is both good and bad. With him comes a hefty price tag resulting in limited cap space, which we so desperately need to sign some awesome free agents. Can he offer to take a pay cut like Tom Brady and others have done for the sake of the team? Seems only fair. Truth be told, he hasn’t been the missing piece we needed when the pressure has been on and his stats, I believe, have been inflated from the play of our super talented receivers. When you analyze his passes, many aren’t on target but behind or ahead. I would prefer he be asked to sacrifice for the sake of keeping the team together and/or improving it; not Adam Thielen or Harrison Smith — as has been mentioned by other pundits.

Remember when I preached patience at the end of the first question of Mailbag? That attitude also applies to Cousins, who is once again a hot topic and on the forefront of the minds of Vikings fans.

To quickly recap once again: Cousins is entering the final season of his current deal is 2022 and will currently count for a $45 million cap hit.

The Vikings could let him play that year out, restructure and extend him (which is what happened in March of 2020) or try to find a trade partner for him.

Bernie pines for the middle option there, but seems to suggest that Cousins and his camp do so at a lower figure than he’s been paid since arriving in Minnesota in 2018.

Will that happen? I have no idea.

Should it? That’s not my call to make.

I’ve always advocated for players to get paid while they can. Yet, it’s also worth mentioning that players such as Brady, clearly for the math equation, that was taking less money so that other areas of the roster could be aided, too.