This Is EXACTLY What Fans Want to Hear... - Vikings Make MASSIVE Trade

The Vikings have made a massive trade by bringing Kirk Cousins back to Minnesota in a move that all fans can rejoice about as this offensive unit might actually be able to produce and match an all-time defense and capitalize on a potential Super Bowl contending season. We're going to break it down all that in this episode of Vikings Digest, but first, We asked you guys to get us to 6,000 subs and you delivered as we have just reached that milestone. So thank you guys very much as now the road to 7,000 starts today. So if you're part of the 88% of viewers who are not yet subscribed, you want to stay up to date on all things Vikings, make sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you don't miss any of the episodes when they drop as this has now turned into a very fortuitous trade deadline for the Minnesota Vikings, bringing Kirk Cousins back to Minnesota. As now he has a chance to really cement himself as one of the best passing quarterbacks in the league this year. As currently on call sheet right now, he's at a 23% chance to be the passing touchdowns leader for this season. And on call sheet, you're trading directly against other users, not the host like traditional sports books. You're buying yes or no contracts in the outcome events across sports, politics, or even the weather. For example, if you were to place a $25 trade on Kirk Cousins to lead the NFL in touchdown passes this season, that would give you a payout of $121.52. Or if you think that the Vikings are for sure going to take back the NFC North now, that $25 trade would give you a payout of $95. So if you are interested in trying out Callsheet, use the link in the description or pin comment and use code DIGESTNFL to get $55 added to your account instantly when you trade your first $25. And with that, let's just hop right into it, folks, because Kirk Cousins is back in Minnesota. Ian Rapoport, Mike Garofalo, Adam Schefter made it official as earlier in the day. It was reported that Kirk Cousins was the lead contender to go back to Minnesota as now it has come to fruition and we got the deal done. Kirk Cousins is back. Kirk O'Chain's returns to the Twin Cities and I am fired up about this because what we saw on Monday Night Football last night with Carson Wentz, absolutely abysmal. And if Kyler Murray's out for three games, well, at least we have a backup plan. And now when Kyler Murray's healthy, Kirk Cousins has a chance to go in there and really just storm this team. Take back his QB1 job, put Kyler Murray at QB2, because Vikings are probably going to move on from him after this year, or probably both of them, unless they want to extend Kirk Cousins, but that's going to be way too expensive. But this is a massive move for the Vikings because now the offense is not fully all for loss now this season. We have a chance to get this offense back on track and to get Justin Jefferson the ball, keep him happy and start winning games. So it's not just all on our defense. As far as the details, as far as what we had to give up for him, didn't have to give up too much. Just a third round pick to get him and for a season where you can go out and win a Super Bowl with this defense and you just need a quarterback who's above average. And can just move the ball. That is all you need here. So it is definitely worth it. To give up a third round pick. In exchange for possibly winning the Super Bowl this year. Because this defense is good enough to get it done. The offensive weapons are good enough to get it done. The only factor is the quarterback position. And of course running the ball. Because I don't know why the hell we can't run the ball all of a sudden. But they have had very big struggles the last couple games doing that. So hopefully an offensive lineman trade is kind of in the works for today as far as later on before the deadline kicks in in about an hour or so. So Minnesota still has time to make something like that happen to fortify the trenches because I know this running game has just looked completely different ever since Jordan Mason came back than when he was gone. But now Minnesota can at least have a little bit of reprieve that they are going to be able to move the offense a little bit. When you look at Kirk Cousins' stats this year, He's been pretty good with minimum 100 pass attempts. He is 17th in completion percentage, fifth most passing yards, second most passing touchdowns, and the 11th highest passer rating in the NFL, which when you put them on an offense like Minnesota, where it's a much better offense than he had with the Raiders, I have a feeling that Kirk Cousins is about to go crazy, improve the NFL and show Minnesota what they were missing when they lost them before. And that brings it to the whole entire thing where over the past couple of years, We've been flirting with the idea of Kirk Cousins coming back to Minnesota with a lot of people saying absolutely not, absolutely yes, and it'll never happen, yada, yada, yada. But with Minnesota right now, they only have to retain about $650,000 of Kirk Cousins' salary. That is a huge salary that the Raiders and the Falcons are currently paying right now. So if Minnesota can take advantage of that the same way they were taking advantage of the Kyler Murray thing, it's almost the same sort of deal, but with a much better quarterback. And with the whole Kirk Cousins scenario back when he left Minnesota, It was super unfortunate because you knew that Kirk Cousins was going to be too expensive to keep in Minnesota. They wanted to add mobility, and yes, Kirk Cousins always had a sneaky mobility aspect to his game, but after that Achilles injury, that basically went out the window. He's able to do it here and there, but not very much, so that left Minnesota in a position where they wanted to have a more mobile quarterback, led to J.J. McCarthy, all that stuff. We know how that all went, as QB shuffling was very dramatic, but a lot of Vikings fans wanted Kirk Cousins to stay in Minnesota because he was such a leader, such a pillar of this community and this organization. That they did not want to lose him. And when you look at the QB's shuffling. It makes sense. Because in the last two years. They signed Sam Darnold to a one year $10 million deal. They drafted JJ McCarthy. McCarthy has a meniscus injury. Darnold starts. Signed Daniel Jones to the practice squad. Let Darnold walk after a 14 win season. Start McCarthy the following year. Also lost Daniel Jones in the process. Three different QB's start last year. Minnesota missed the playoffs. They signed Kyler Murray to a one year vet minimum deal. They trade JJ McCarthy to the Giants. And now they trade for Kirk Cousins. And this is all with just the last two years. If you guys missed our live stream last night, I was talking about how I don't know why the Vikings just can't get it done at quarterback, why they can't figure it out, why we've been cursed just in the past couple of years. But if you look back at the last 25 years or 26 years, it's even worse when you look at the long, long list of starting quarterbacks. But in the past couple of years, it's been just even worse because of what we had to put out there where you had guys like Nick Mullins, Jaron Hall, and Josh Dobbs. So many other guys that just have not been able to do it. Max Brosmer again, which he looked all right last night, but it was garbage time. The starters were pulled out. All that, we know how that's going to go in that illusion. But with Kirk Cousins coming back now, add some stability. You get a guy that you know can get Justin Jefferson the ball, can get TJ Hawkinson the ball, can get Jordan Addison the ball. And now this offense is about to look very, very different, especially when looking at what Kirk Cousins' first game back in Minnesota is going to be. And it will be traveling to Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers. Unfortunately, the same stadium where he tore his Achilles, hopefully he can kind of just wash away those demons, go into Lambeau, have an absolutely stellar game, and show the NFL and show the Minnesota Vikings, Hey, this season is not all for lost. We have a chance to gloat and do this. And I know I'm saying this like the sky is falling and we're a 1-6 team. We're 6-2 right now. But again, the way that offense has been looking, absolutely unwatchable. And the defense has been carrying us so much. But now we have a chance to go for the rest of this season With the defense not having to have as much of a heavy load on them and letting the offense kind of go out there and do their thing. Because we know Kirk Cousins can still sling that rock. He can still put up points. We know he's going to get Justin Jefferson the ball. And we've seen the best of times with him and Justin Jefferson. We know what that can bring. And it has me super excited to see what this offense is going to look like in just a one-week turnaround. So I'm very happy about this move. I'm happy the Vikings went out and did something on the trade deadline. Went and got a quarterback and a guy that knows the system, knows these teammates. Has the locker room already. It's not going to take very much time for him to just reestablish his leadership position in this locker room, have the guys rally behind him. And Justin Jefferson, of course, is going to be very, very happy about this. But let us know your guys' thoughts down in the comments below, as that is going to do it for this episode of Vikings Digest. Thank you guys so much for liking, subscribing, hitting that bell icon so you don't miss the episodes when they drop. And if you missed our live stream that we did, watching along with that Monday night game last night, I know it was a terrible game that we don't even want to think about again. But it was a lot of fun hopping on stream with you guys, getting all the reactions out of there. If you guys want to see me have a complete meltdown about how the Vikings were looking last night, you can go ahead and check that out. If you want to see all the fun moments that were from the game as well, go ahead and check it out, as well as some other fun stuff we have on the channel. And we're going to be doing another live stream this Sunday against Green Bay Packers for Kirk Cousins' first game back in Minnesota. 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