REACTION: Kirk Cousins Traded To Minnesota Vikings | TMZ Sports

Welcome back to TMZ Sports. The NFL's trade deadline has come and gone. There were some big moves, none bigger than quarterback Kirk Cousins going from the Raiders back to the Minnesota Vikings, where he spent six seasons. Look, the Vikings offense is going to be happy. Justin Jefferson, speaking of, JJ, is going to be very happy. He's finally got someone that can throw him that football. As now Fernando Mendoza, number one overall pick, will assume that starter job in Vegas. And big move, only a third-round draft pick next year to get Cousins back to Minnesota. I mean, this seems like a huge win kind of for both sides, you know, because I feel like the Raiders fans this entire time I've been super excited to see Fernando Mendoza play. Let me talk first. Okay, fine. Next time. You guys think so much alike. Yeah, you know, we're not so different after all. But it's interesting because now Fernando Mendoza just shot up to be the new favorite for the Rookie of the Year, Offensive Rookie of the Year. So that's super exciting to see. So there's a lot of excitement in Vegas. And then, yeah. I think it's, you know, after seeing, I love Carson Wentz, you're always going to have a special place in my heart, man, but you sucked so bad last night. So horrible. Yeah, I don't think he's got it either. I mean, having a guy like Kirk Cousins, who pretty much made Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson, you know, and start off his career. There we go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The agreement stops. I knew that was going to get it. I would say Louisiana State University, that LSU, baby. Go Tigers. Shout out Joe Burrow. You see the production Ja'Marr Chase has right now with a bad quarterback? Nothing. When he had Kirk Cousins there, oh, my gosh. He had Joe Burrow at LSU National Championship. Ja'Marr Chase was still better on that team, but that's okay. That's okay. The only reason you got drafted before him is because of this. Whatever. Whatever. Everything else you said was fine. Okay. Everything else you said, I agree with. I love Fernando Mendoza, so I'm so happy to see him finally be able to get to start. He got to work behind Kirk for a little bit, got to learn from him. We saw them in that little stepbrothers thing, obviously. Oh, yeah, that's already over. I feel like Kirk and Mendoza will have a good, long-lasting... Mentorship, relationship in the league. Yeah, it's kind of how it goes, too. Usually a rookie just sits behind a vet for a long time and then, you know, takes over. This is a great way to do it. And now they got the third-round pick, too, so that works. Yeah, good move. Biggest move. Not the most costly move, right? I mean, we see first-round draft picks that were exchanged. To get a quarterback, the team that... Thinks they can contend. Only two losses in Minnesota. Right. I mean, get right. Despite having no quarterback, they've, right, like Dylan says, two losses. And now they've got their guy. And they think they can make a deep run in the playoffs. We'll see if they can or not. Also, one more thing I just wanted to say, because this is a shout-out to Kirk Cousins, his agent. He's now getting paid by not only Atlanta Falcons, he's still getting paid by the Vikings for his last stint. Okay, well, what I thought you were going to bring up is how, This is crazy. What I thought you were going to bring bring up was how the Minnesota Vikings, they played last night, and there was that video of the little kids that were wearing the long snappers jersey, and you can definitely tell that those kids were definitely a Josh Allen fan, because my boy had a Vikings jersey on, but boy, he takes that jersey off so fast when he sees Josh Allen. He's got a Bills shirt on under this. Oh yeah, he came prepared. Oh, look at that. He literally got a Bills No, obviously, you've got to respect that. He was ready to go. Yeah, you know. So there was some talk online that that was actually the long snapper's kids. We think that's probably not true at this point. There's a Vikings reporter. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. So who has a jersey of the long snapper? I love that. Shout out to the long snapper. Give him the jersey love. Love it.