LaVar Arrington Says That The Vikings Are No Doubt The Biggest Losers After Cousins Departure

2 PROS & A CUP OF JOE – Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox, and LaVar Arrington react to Kirk Cousins leaving Minnesota for the Atlanta Falcons. Brady called the move correctly, but LaVar thinks this is a huge loss for Minnesota.

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The free agents frenzy is underway strikes again yeah ladies and gentlemen can we get a round of applause for uh the who just continues to call his shot what the hell yeah what happened Brady Quinn Quin what you guys talking quamis Quinn stradamus yeah there we

Go you called no keep it going this is no we need to to celebrate this this is hold on yeah there we go he called it do we have some do we did we say we want some music music horn what I mean you called yes yeah yes and

The award once again for calling it before it happens for calling kurk cousins destination before it happened goes to Braden T Quin he said that Michael Evans was worth the money in Tampa and they gave it to him LaVar Arrington foolishly followed his lead on that with Kurt Cousins and Minnesota he was [Applause] incorrect but once again the man himself one Braden Quinn thank you thank you I I so many people to thank for this um let’s first start off by thanking K cousins himself who Folks by 2027 he will have amassed $411 million career earnings 379 of those monies will be guaranteed

Round of Applause for K cousins by the way could have done it without him uh Mike McCartney his agent uh who obviously has uh has ties to I don’t know maybe represented a family member of mine in the NFL um and so uh look at the Atlanta Falcons and Arthur Blank uh

A man who is not afraid he’s not bashful in any way about opening up his checkbook and providing Kirk Cousins the type of compensation he needs to go ahead and leave the friendly wonderful confines of Minneapolis Minnesota place that I love so much I tell people all

The time two three months out of the Year might be the best place uh to go up during the summertime um it’s unfortunate that his family will have to uproot themselves and go to Atlanta but they’ve got $100 million of guarantees that makes it a little bit easier

There’s that with he doesn’t appear to be a guy who has a real lavish lifestyle Kurt Cousins I think he goes to Kohl’s and I think wants he eats raisin canes so like that mighty’s going to go longer with here here’s why I don’t believe that why because he’s so quiet about his

Lifestyle that I actually think I don’t know if that lavishes the word but they spend a couple coins yeah I think he portrays this image wife does too they got that very very subtle wholesome you know what do they call call it white bread America yeah damn that supposed to me

Well I mean that could be anybody but I’m just you know oh okay yeah people hey you know we don’t like wheat how y’all first of all y’all aren’t allowed to take offense to anything that would even remotely sound like it was bad anyway white people what does that mean

Well cuz you know I don’t want to go down this road it’s 306 in the morning you people are all the same Johnson yeah racist what does that mean what that that hey that’s got to be racist so what so so if let’s they seem like they’re

Normal people how about that all right so what sort of lavish setup are they going to have in their house in Atlanta are they going to have house I mean I’ll tell you what you you’ve made 379 million guaranteed a G5 you know it’s like he’s never flying commercial ever again ever

Ever ever that’s sweet I mean a good you can live off your interest that that that bro he could buy bonds and just live off the interest of the bonds bonds are paying enough right now mhm yep well listen now I mean it it is a I think somewhere Arthur Smith’s probably

Looking around going dude seriously like I you guys left me what you left me and our issue was quarterback this whole time and then after I’m gone you decide you want to go out and make a big splash and and make a move like this like this

Is uh not ideal for Arthur Smith but it is ideal for the Atlanta Falcons also not ideal for our friends listening on the Y that’s really not is not beneficial for I mean listen what a what losers I mean oh damn y’all lost damn I mean let’s keep it real y’all

Lost dang bro yeah yep call call put that in your Juicy Lucy and smoke it huh I mean everybody who’s a Minnesota Vikings fan knows that they lost yeah well I mean you’re losers in the free agent game already yeah not great and uh denal

Hunter uh he’s going to be on his way out and you’ve got Sam darnold who’s on his way in though so he’s now going to be vying for the quarterback spot and listen there is there is a reason why and we’ve been talking about the odds on DraftKings and just sort of how

Everything looked and yesterday I believe JJ McCarthy to go to the Vikings was a plus 330 and it dipped down to a plus 150 after the news of K cousins came out but they would have to make a move right I mean they’re sitting at 11

I I can’t imagine JJ McCarthy is going to be on the board still at that spot it feels like there’s going to be a run at this and maybe they’re going to be one of these teams that are going to be you know pounding the phone of Arizona or

The Chargers to try and get up to take the fourth quarterback on the board that’s what it feels like I I would imagine they’d have to move up we never you know really know but the only way to assure yourself a chance at JJ McCarthy would be trading up to four with

Arizona and I think the hard part is is there there’s still a number of U potential teams in your way the Giants at six I mean are they comfortable you know going moving forward Daniel Jones for the season he’s going to be on the roster because the dead cap hits too

Much after the deal they agreed to before last season but that’s a team that you know they kick the tires on Russell Wilson it seems like they’re interested in bringing someone in to replace Daniel Jones and lots on the line from them this year you know Atlanta’s now got their quarterback at

Eight but you know you just you look around look Denver you look at Las Vegas maybe it makes uh them more aptic at Justin Fields there’s reports that you know maybe that’s it’s headed in that direction but there’s other teams vying for what will I think the fourth

Quarterback and and we’ll see how many more are taken in the first round so then the question might become how do they feel about Michael pennx how do they feel about bonix those quarterbacks start to come up into the conversation but this feels like it’s a bit botched I mean they

Didn’t get Jonathan grenard who’s you know a young man out of Houston played pretty well opposite of Will Anderson Jr at the DN spot but you know hasn’t had the track record that danil Hunter has had and you just you kind of wonder if if quy fensa hasn’t messed this whole

Thing up considering not only not getting cousins but how that impacts Justin Jefferson and his contract extension he was very vocal about wanting cousins to become you know come back now you know he could say all those things and at the end of the day if they

Pay him to reset the wide receiver Market top dollar then I’m sure he’s going to accept it and he’s not going to care but but at the same time I’m sure he wants to get to a place where he’s got a quarterback who can get him the

Football and he has the stats that can make him one of the best receivers in the league otherwise it becomes a little bit of a miserable experience right you so I I I think that’s the tough spot is if you take a step back and look at what’s happened in Minnesota you know

You’ve got to look at the general manager and say like how much of this goes on him with with how they’ve reshaped the roster what hasn’t or hasn’t worked you know Marcus Marcus Davenport was a player they spent a lot of money on really didn’t do much there

Uh when he came in from New Orleans he’s now a free agent and they still need another Edge rusher opposite of grenard this is a this is a Rost that’s one that won 13 games it’s going to be two seasons ago and now you could say

That they’re in the bottom of of the uh NFC North it’s kind of scary you you know what like thinking about ktk cousins signing for now being worth over you know $400 million it’s interesting listening to the conversation as it applies to drafting the quarterback and getting the top four quarterback and the

Top quarterback and a can’t miss Prospect you you know Kurt Cousins was in the same draft as a can’t miss a can’t miss uh Prospect in fact there were two of them and it might be the only time in the history of me listening to heading into the draft that there

Were no harsh CR I don’t think there were any criticisms on Andrew Luck and and Robert Griffin III now here’s what what makes that story interesting just listening to all of this talk it’s like oh you’re going to move up oh you got to get this guy oh

You let Kurt Cousins go for somebody that you may get in the draft oh this that and the other you don’t know what you’re getting in the draft the shanan did okay well think about this RG3 goes what two yeah Kurt cousin goes what round fourth to the same team

Yeah RG3 is doing commentary and has been out of the game for what three at least three years how much do you think his his injury played a role in that yeah I mean of course we could say most guys that their career stalled out was due to injury well that’s the thing

About cousins is he really hasn’t had an injury until now yeah but my point is is For Better or For Worse for injury or for health Kurt Cousins is still in in the league and both of those guys are out of the league well yeah I me luck by

Choice it’s kind of well regardless it’s just you just don’t know what you’re going to get that’s my point you don’t know what you’re going to get and in the end with somebody is said going into the draft it’s like oh yeah you got Andrew

Luck oh yep yep we got RG3 well you got to make sure you move up and this that and the other and it’s like okay that it’s conventional wisdom it’s sensible it it makes sense Washington did move up to get RG3 right they did they gave up a

Lot yeah they did K Ransom to the Rams and still hired Kurt Cousins and Kurt Cousins is the lone lone wolf standing in that scenario yeah I I just don’t I my point is if you have a Bird in Hand and you can clearly see that another hand wants that bird in

Its hand why the hell do you let that bird go you don’t know what bird you’re getting in return are you getting are you getting a sparrow are you getting a parakeet are you getting a falcon are you getting an eagle like what what kind of bird are you getting I’m just saying

Is it an owl like is it a big one is it a little one owls are feisty I’m just saying is it the little mouse R rat hunting owl or is it like the fox possum hunting owl like could take down a go get a a baby calf or you know

A deer yeah what what type which one are you getting I’m just saying Minnesota y’all lost man y y’all L you stupid as H but it it’s all like what what is but what is it about silver so we look we’ we’ve talked about you like what is it about kurk cousins

Like that’s the part that I that I struggle with is this is Kurt or Kirk Kirk Cousins this is because this is now the second time if you if we’re going to go down that road this is now the second time in his career that somebody decided

That yeah we could do better than you it’s weird man I I don’t know that they decided they could do better I think they decided they didn’t want to pay for him for that long of a contract I mean the numbers aren’t like I said this yesterday and I’ll reiterate this point

Daniel Jones contract I I think a lot of there’s two contracts in recent history that a lot of owners were upset by deshun Watson’s because it was fully guaranteed uh owners probably are looking around at Jimmy ham going no one want to set that precedent it happened

It’s been it’s been done no one’s replicated that okay the Daniel Jones one’s the next one though because the Giants grossly overpaid and they put themselves in a position where they grossly overpaid for not pick up the fifth year option which is what they should have done in the

First place and then played things out with the franchise tag in retrospect now we don’t have the luxury of doing that so because they signed him to a deal that in essence guaranteed his first two years averaged annual value of 40 million per year teams are looking around going wait wait you’re paying

Your quarterback that he he he really didn’t do much but I okay well now it’s allowed every other quarterback to then use that as the floor for their negotiations because that year that Daniel Jones has or had excuse me was so I don’t I would say

Pedestrian but it was so average that it then LED other teams to go well everyone’s going to going to surpass this like he set the floor for the quarterback market with the exception of like Baker Mayfield who didn’t test the free agency market if he did I guarantee

You he would have gotten more than 40 million a year because everything was going to go above the Daniel Jones deal cuz that’s what that’s what you do your agent team they’re going to compare to other contracts other guys that are out there and and that is by the way more on the

Lowend first starter is Daniel Jones deal so if that’s the floor Kirk Cousins is representation are like yeah come on dude like you’re not willing to pay me 45 million on average annual value per year and that’s what he got two years of it are guaranteed with the 100 million

At signing 50 million signing bonus like those are details Minnesota should have been been willing to to pay out based on the fact that cousins was leading the league in touchdown passes after eight games he was on Pace for 5,000 yards 70% completion percentage he might have been

The MVP when it was all said and done if he kept that up just doesn’t make sense so this will be in the front office of Minnesota if this thing goes into a tail spin and a crash and burn