Raiders Mailbag: Could John Spytek have gotten bigger return from Minnesota Vikings in Kirk Cousins trade?
I felt like John Spytek could have at least gotten an escalator on the pick where, if the Vikings made the NFC Championship, Super Bowl or whatever with Cousins, the pick becomes a second-rounder.
Key points
- The Cousins trade doesn’t happen if John Spytek and Klint Kubiak don’t think the latter is true.
- A: I get that a lot of people feel like the Raiders didn’t get a big enough return for Cousins, and initially, I was surprised they didn’t get more, too.
- Watch sports LIVE with fuboTV (free trial) “Hey Kirk Cousins, thank you for celebrating others’ victories and lifting people without comparison or jealousy,” Brown wrote.
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The Las Vegas Raiders are moving forward with rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza after trading Kirk Cousins to the Minnesota Vikings.
Additional details
- They put a heavy emphasis on getting younger in the offseason, and it was always clear that Kirk Cousins was a bridge-gap starter until Mendoza was ready to start.
- Neither is His grace.” The Raiders legend also praised Cousins for giving the fan base something to cheer about during his short stint with the franchise.
- So, if he wasn’t going to be the starter in Las Vegas for much longer, at least Spytek managed to get a Top 100 pick from a player who wasn’t going to be on next year’s roster and probably wasn’t going to be contributing for much longer this year anyway.
- Essentially, Minnesota was willing to take a chance that the 38-year-old can salvage the campaign, but not at the cost of potentially jeopardizing the club’s future, and drew a line at the third-rounder.
- Related: Why Raiders’ Seahawks clash is more about Klint Kubiak than Fernando Mendoza Related: Hall of Fame HC Bill Parcells gets real about NFL rookies ahead of Fernando Mendoza’s first career start with Raiders.
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