Vikings identify Kirk Cousins as trade target: Report

I have something to add in terms of the Vikings trade talks. Adam Schefter just reported a couple minutes ago that the Vikings have identified Kirk Cousins as the prime trade candidate and will look to get a deal here done in the next few hours. The clock is ticking. So we know that the Vikings now, per Adam Schefter, are focused on Cousins. We suspected that that might be the case, and now it is just about getting a deal done. So Adam Schefter tweeting that within just the last few minutes. We do not have any planned, you know, usually the day after a game. You hear from Kevin O'Connell on Mondays after Sunday games, so presumably that would have been today. Obviously, there's nothing out of KOC planned at this point to address the media, which is typical after a game, but it's not typical that, you know, you usually have a trade deadline the day after a game. So I mean, that's thrown a wrinkle and obviously they're probably a little bit busy there. So I'm seeing that post here from Adam Schefter as well. So that, I guess, would come as no surprise. The question then being is, what do you have to give up? Yeah, and it's, you know, what is the price for Kirk Cousins? I've heard it could be as high as a second round pick. You know, is that worth it? And then maybe some more? I don't know. I mean, at this point, because again, the Vikings have to do something to solve this. And this seems like, boy, I tell you what, it's just rinse and repeat with this one because it seems like every year for how many years now it's this constant quarterback crisis in the And, um, I've just forgotten the names now, but I mean, where we had, you know, when Cousins got injured in Lambeau, um, and we got, we instantly had a, oh boy, we got to bring somebody in. And who was it that we brought in? Um, I can picture it. And, uh, you know, that turned out pretty well is a solution until that quarterback got, are you talking Sam Darnold? Was he the guy before that? Yeah, that's what I thought. We'll get his name. Yeah, but then he got hurt. You know, we had Darnold in. And then remember, I can't remember who got hurt that at the trade deadline, we got Josh Dobbs, the astronaut. Oh, yeah. And then he had to come in cold getting the descriptions of the playbook over his headset from KC on the sideline and had an amazing game. But then that was it. Then he didn't have an amazing game further. I mean, it's constantly. Quarterback crisis mode for this team midseason. Yeah, and I think the question is how much do you give up for Kirk Cousins knowing he is not the long-term answer at this position, right? He is the answer for this year, I don't know, and maybe next year. Well, that's all they would do right now because Cousins is how old and how much? 38. Yeah, but he's pretty much wrapping it up. Yeah, so we'll keep an eye on it? Well, it would be a good way for him to go out is to come here and actually, you know. It's a fun story. Yeah. Why not? Nothing else. It's a fun story. We like stories. All right. Yeah. We're going to talk to Jim Rich coming up here in a little bit. We sure will. Provided when we can get Jimmy in. I know we've got that kind of waiting in the wings. He's not in yet, but we'll see what he says. We'll get him on. And then did we want to talk about our poll? At this point, we can throw it up. Yeah, let's throw it up here real quick. Just what the fans want. We asked what should the Vikings do at the trade deadline. I think all things considered equal. Justin Herbert would be the guy, maybe. But, you know, the price tag for him would be high, both in what we would give up and how much he costs. So, ideally, yeah, we'd love to see Justin Herbert, although he is really having a rough year in Los Angeles. So, ugh. Trade for Cousins is kind of the, well, the third option there, really. Nothing. Yeah, that surprised me. Why would, you know, almost a third of the respondents say they should do nothing? Yeah. Because they, they, is, I would love to, if we had comments related to that, I'd be curious, is that because they think that Cousins will be, will not be an improvement over Kyler Murray? If Kyler Murray's hamstring will heal, he'll come back. And that we should just ride with Murray. We haven't seen anything great out of him, but we haven't seen enough terrible out of him that that can't be any worse than trading for somebody. I think the people who vote nothing are worried about sacrificing the future for what could be a wildcard victory or something, a wildcard win. But nothing beyond that would be my guess. Okay. All right.