NFL Free Agency is underway and many teams are shaping their teams as they position themselves for the 2022 season.
That means the quarterback market is in flux as we have already seen Seattle trade Russell Wilson to Denver & Indianapolis trade Carson Wentz to Washington.
There was some thought that with a new regime in Minnesota, Kirk Cousins might also have a new address next season. However, that was put to rest March 13 when the Minnesota Vikings signed Cousins to a one year extension worth $35 million dollars.
The new deal gives Cousins a $25 million dollar signing bonus and a no-trade clause while it saves the Vikings $14 million dollars in cap space.
While this may help the Vikings with free agency in 2022 Lake Night host Henry Lake doesn’t view this as a win-win.
“I view this as a short term win and long term pain because you have to add another year with Kirk Cousins as your signal caller,” Lake said on his show Monday night.
Cousins joined Minnesota in 2018 with the thought he could be the missing piece to help put the Vikings over the top. In his time in Minnesota Cousins has a record of 33-29-1 with only one playoff appearance, a win over New Orleans in 2019.
“I respect Cousins, but I'm not thrilled about this,” Lake went on to say. “I know what Kirk Cousins is, he’s a decent quarterback not an elite quarterback. Cousins is a quarterback that needs things to exactly go right and in the NFL everything doesn’t go your way.”
While many Vikings fans may not be excited to have Cousins around for another couple years, it’s not the worst thing in the world.
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Minnesota has a new coach in Kevin O’Connell who was a quarterback himself. Having been the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, O’Connell may think he can get the most out of Cousins.
Plus O’Connell is implementing his new scheme and year one is usually to see who on the team fits and who doesn’t. If Minnesota would have chosen to move on from Cousins, whoever they brought in would have been a stop-gap quarterback at best.
This may be a situation where it’s best to go with what you have right now and if it doesn’t work, you have a two year window to figure out what to do next at the quarterback position.
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