USAT: Vikings Wire audio clip

USAT: Vikings Wire

Feb 8, 2022

Amid all of the jubilation surrounding the brand new hires for the Minnesota Vikings, Kirk Cousins’ incredibly complicated contract situation remains the elephant in the room. - Will the Vikings trade him or sign him to an extension? - Those are the only likely scenarios left on the table for a team bracing for a $45 million cap hit in 2022. ESPN Vikings reporter Courtney Cronin isn’t willing to go all in definitively on one answer over the other. However, she did attach a percentage value to what she thinks the team will ultimately decide to do when it’s all said and done. - “I’ll go ahead and give you—I know you’re going to hate me for this—like a 60-40. I know that’s not the sexy answer because it’s almost 50-50. But I’ll put it at 60 percent trade and 40 percent extension. I think that it’s a bad mistake if you extend [Cousins] now simply based out of financial issues,” Cronin said on the Purple Inside Podcast. “You’re doing it to alleviate a problem that you put yourself in in the first place the last time you did this in order to create cap space, which you ended up using to franchise Anthony Harris. What are you guys doing? How about you don’t do this again.” - - PIE CHART: Do the #Vikings trade Kirk or sign him to an extension? - On today's podcast @MatthewColler & @CourtneyRCronin discuss the future of Kirk and how the Vikings landed on O'Connell. - A-

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