Predictions for NFL teams according to Sports Illustrated have a very bold prediction for the Miami Dolphins... Are the Dolphins going to sign Kirk Cousins? By the end of the year will he take Tua's job? The guys get into an extra heated quibble concerning Kirk, would he sign anywhere on the "cheapskies" or will he command a starters salary? Will Atlanta be forced to pick up the tab wherever he lands?
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00:00Sports Illustrated, they have a list 2025 NFL season.
00:10Aaron Rodgers is bet fit for media.
00:15They do the the ayahuasca cast.
00:19Just high as a kite watching Monday Night Football.
00:24One bold prediction for every team.
00:27Do you want their bold prediction from the Miami
00:29Dolphins?
00:30Yeah, too late.
00:33You're getting no, I can I guess?
00:35Yeah, sure.
00:36You won't guess.
00:38Oh, the Miami Dolphins will trade Tyree kill.
00:41No, I mean, I don't even know that's a bold prediction.
00:43Do you even feel like that's a bold prediction?
00:46Let me see.
00:46I feel like if you're going to say like that's the least
00:48bold of the bold predictions, like if the Dolphins are
00:51trading, they'll make the playoffs.
00:53No has to do with the player has to do with the player.
00:56Oh, I got this tool will win MVP.
00:59No, that is a bold.
01:00You're not even in the same zip code.
01:02You can I in fact, it's quite the opposite of that.
01:04Actually defense the Dolphins is according to Sports
01:09Illustrated.
01:11We'll sign Kirk Cousins and he'll eventually rest the
01:16starting job away from to a tongue of Iloa 2025 season.
01:22Their cousins is a coveted asset among the Shanahanites
01:27for his decisiveness and processing skills.
01:30Much like Aaron Rodgers coming off a broken thumb finale
01:33in Green Bay cousins is a bit of a distressed asset who
01:36in my opinion still has some good football ahead of him.
01:39Unlike the Falcons might be down.
01:41The Dolphins can find a way for him to work when to a
01:45dynamic run game, which they didn't ever have a run game
01:48last year.
01:49Never happen.
01:50It will never happen.
01:54And you can blame Brett Favre.
01:55I mean, I brought for Aaron Rodgers for that.
01:57Well, here's the difference though.
01:59Like if they cut, there's a lot of buzz that the Falcons
02:01are going to cut Kirk Cousins.
02:03So he's going to be on the cheapskies.
02:05And what do you mean?
02:08He can go sign wherever he wants.
02:10Cheapskies.
02:10Correct.
02:11Russell Wilson signed on the cheapskies.
02:13No, that's because the other team was paying to say, but
02:15Kirk Cousins, a guy who knows the Mike McDaniel offense,
02:18like if you were going to look at him and he goes and
02:20like if I was laying in the weeds, if I was Kirk Cousins
02:22and I would look at the Miami Dolphins be like, he knows
02:25what he's going to get.
02:25He's going to miss four games at least at least I slide
02:30on in there.
02:31You got your next stop.
02:32All right, just out of curiosity, hit me up in the chat.
02:37Right?
02:40You think Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback than to
02:47because and I don't mean more healthy because he's really
02:51not even more healthy right now.
02:54Hobbling around on that leg, but it's an extra year.
02:57Don't you always say the next year is the year, right?
03:00But like, but he's what 38.
03:02I don't know.
03:03Right?
03:06So let's be clear.
03:08Some call to a lefty Kirk Cousins.
03:12I call him younger Kirk Cousins.
03:14It doesn't matter.
03:1536 by the way, but already 37 before the season.
03:18So like, yeah, like you're making it sound like Kirk
03:23Cousins don't get banged up.
03:26No, no.
03:28Did he have injuries before this Achilles thing though?
03:32No kid.
03:33Here's what I don't understand.
03:35Please explain this to me.
03:38All along Kirk Cousins career all the guaranteed money.
03:42He's he's had all the success.
03:46He's had with all these various teams.
03:48They all couldn't wait to get rid of him.
03:50Never missed a startup until that injury.
03:52They all couldn't wait to get rid of him.
03:55Washington.
03:56Couldn't the Vikings couldn't and now Atlanta.
04:02She means and says Tobin is hefty Kirk Cousins.
04:05We had to hefty lefty.
04:07No longer with rest in peace for Witcher.
04:11Okay.
04:11Well, let me ask you this.
04:12Okay, let me ask you this.
04:14Let's just say the Cousins family, you know, they all the
04:17kids don't they have a lot of kids too.
04:18I feel like the cousins have a lot of kids.
04:20No, I feel like they have a lot of kids too.
04:24I don't the Kirk Cousins doesn't a lot of kids.
04:25Well, whatever two sons two sons.
04:27I have reasonable my kids.
04:29Oh, and I thought the Cousins were a lot more.
04:33No, that's this Patrick and Kurt and Kurt Warner.
04:36I don't know why I think that all intangible quarterbacks
04:38have a bunch of kids lying around.
04:42But let's just say would you if Kirk Cousins did get cut
04:45loose, right?
04:46I'd imagine he wants the starting job.
04:47I'd imagine he wants a starting job, but like how many
04:49starting jobs are going to be out there?
04:50I don't know, you know, Las Vegas the Jets.
04:55If if he didn't see a job to his liking would wouldn't
04:58you love him as a backup?
05:00Yeah, but there's too many places where he could play.
05:04But but here's here's my question every year.
05:09We have a conversation.
05:12How could somebody give Kirk Cousins that much guaranteed
05:15money and now you're saying you want them?
05:18I'm just asking.
05:18Well, as a backup, I'd love Kirk Cousins as a backup, but
05:21he's just too many teams that need a quarterback.
05:24I don't know how many teams are going to, you know, you
05:26got the Raiders probably got the Giants.
05:31You got my draft somebody though the jet.
05:33No.
05:33Okay.
05:34Okay, but you don't think they're going to try to do
05:37the same thing that they did with Pinnock's is like, I
05:42don't I don't know who else was who else needs a quarterback
05:47Cleveland.
05:52Like there's so you think there's no shot.
05:56He's not starting next year, right?
05:58But he does know the offense.
05:59So maybe that's an appeal.
06:01If you could start and make starters money versus coming
06:05buddy.
06:05I may start as my younger is doesn't the money get offset.
06:09What do you mean?
06:09Like doesn't he doesn't it whatever money he makes doesn't
06:12he doesn't that offset what his deal is already?
06:14No, I don't know if he has any double dip.
06:16I don't know how much guaranteed money.
06:18He has.
06:19I'm sure he has a lot.
06:20It's Kirk Cousins with a hundred million guaranteed.
06:22I think it was his number.
06:23The guaranteed money is the guaranteed money.
06:25It doesn't offset if it's like sign and bonus.
06:28Hundred million.
06:30I just think about that.
06:32Correct.
06:32Think about that.
06:33Think of how much guaranteed money, you know, he's got
06:36more guaranteed money than any quarterback in the NFL.
06:38I know.
06:39Right, but teams can't wait to get rid of him.
06:43Um, what do you feel like Minnesota couldn't wait to get
06:47rid of them?
06:49Tours Achilles.
06:50No, no, no.
06:50If he was healthy, do you think they would have kept him?
06:52Probably no, because they had JJ McCarthy tours Achilles
06:56the year beforehand.
06:57Okay, that's the year.
06:58Okay.
06:59All right.
07:05Would you rather have and Smithen as angry as you are?
07:09You make a little bit of sense here.
07:12Would you rather have Justin Fields as a backup?
07:14Yeah.
07:19What is he done though?
07:20Like, what is he done?
07:22What's he done?
07:23Like I'm like Kirk Cousins is obviously a much more accomplished
07:25quarterback.
07:26Like he's old.
07:26I get it.
07:27He's long in the tooth.
07:28But if I had to choose a backup quarterback, I'd rather have
07:30Kirk Cousins.
07:31Here.
07:32Come on.
07:33Understand what guys are looking shaky.
07:35Ola Kirk Cousins wants to go somewhere where you can start.
07:38I agree with that.
07:39Justin feels not so much.
07:40But if he wasn't going to start and you want to lay in the
07:43weeds, this is it.
07:44Kirk Cousins will be a starting quarterback somewhere.
07:47Here's the thing.
07:48Kirk.
07:48But hear me out.
07:49Hear me out.
07:49Hear me out.
07:50If you were Kirk Cousins, right?
07:51You could do that.
07:52You could do that.
07:53You could go to the Browns.
07:54You go to the Jets.
07:55You'd go with organizations that are a disaster right now.
07:57Okay, but that's who needs a quarterback.
07:59I understand or or you can take a little roll of the dice.
08:04You go to an offense.
08:05That's got some weapons and all you got to bet is the very
08:09likely chance that to a tongue of Iloa gets hurt and you're
08:12going to have your opportunity.
08:13You sound ridiculous.
08:16I don't think I do.
08:19So let's think of it this way.
08:24The lowest amount Kirk Cousins get for being a starting
08:27quarterback is 30 million.
08:30Put for a season.
08:31You think he's going to get 30 million from somebody?
08:33So say 25 dude.
08:34He's not going to get 25 million when he's getting when he's
08:36already getting paid by the Falcons.
08:37Like no one's going to do that.
08:38You can't just you're not going to just like for like a team
08:42that already has to pay Aaron Rodgers.
08:43They're not going to pay Kirk Cousins 25 million.
08:47It's the cost of doing business.
08:48No, the cost of doing business is he's going to get to go
08:50somewhere on the cheap skis just like Russell Wilson did.
08:52No, but that only matters.
08:57Like why?
08:59I don't understand.
09:00You think that someone's going to pay Kirk Cousins 25 million
09:03dollars off that season?
09:04That's half price for a starting quarterback.
09:06Not for a year.
09:07Nobody gets paid that.
09:08What did their car make?
09:10Their car was traded though.
09:12Dude, how much money all these places that you're talking
09:16about that?
09:16He's going to go to he's going to go on a show me deal.
09:19Well, he's not.
09:20He's already getting paid by the Falcons a hundred million
09:22dollars.
09:23I show me deal is 2025 million.
09:25You're nuts.
09:26He's not making that much money.
09:30You're I don't know what's wrong with you.
09:32I don't know what's wrong with you.
09:34Every starting quarterback is making 50, 60 million dollars
09:38that the Cleveland Browns were out to lunch.
09:40If they gave Kirk Cousins 25 million dollars.
09:42Why?
09:43They don't have a quarterback because they're paying to
09:45Sean Watson.
09:46What?
09:46Yeah, $5 million, but they still don't have a quarterback.
09:50You told me you told me that you wouldn't take to him because
09:52it was too much money for the Browns.
09:54Now all of a sudden you're going to pay Kirk Cousins.
09:56No, I said I wouldn't trade for two.
10:00The difference.
10:01Dude, I'm telling you, I'm telling you 25 million for a starting
10:09quarterback.
10:11When the going rate for a starting quarterback is 50 million
10:17is a deal.
10:18He already got paid though.
10:19So what?
10:20What is the campaign yesterday?
10:21Got to do we get paid tomorrow?
10:23Because the whole point is you go to any team that he wants
10:25to load it up.
10:26So he's in the best position to make more money on the next
10:29deal.
10:30The next deal.
10:31He's 36.
10:32Dude, you're crazy.
10:33Only one quarterback makes 25 million.
10:36Who's that?
10:37And then the discrepancy underneath him is a lot.
10:40So if he reaches this which is similar age to this quarterback,
10:45then, you know, obviously it was the quarterback Gino Smith.
10:51Dear that's that's where we are right underneath him though.
10:56The next quarterback makes 12 million.
10:58So it's like less than that guard.
11:00You're talking about like annual money that that's not like
11:03tied up in bonuses and things like that.
11:05Yes.
11:06Okay.
11:06Who's the next one?
11:08Gardner Minshew.
11:10And what Gardner Minshew make 12 12 and a half.
11:13Okay, but Gardner Minshew who doesn't have a hundred million
11:15dollars guaranteed coming his way.
11:16No dead right here.
11:18How much do you think Aaron Rodgers gonna sign for you think
11:20Aaron Rodgers gonna sign somewhere for 25 million dollars?
11:23He's getting paid by the Jets.
11:24No, he's gonna get 25.
11:25How much did Russell Wilson make last year?
11:27Oh, it's good question.
11:28No, but he signed that was different.
11:30It wasn't different.
11:31It's literally the same situation.
11:32This is why I don't understand Leroy when you get paid from
11:38one team, you're going to go to another team and go on the
11:41cheap skis and quarterback because you're getting paid by
11:42the other day.
11:44That's if you're Russell Wilson.
11:47Not if you're actually a starting quarterback.
11:50Russell Wilson was a better quarterback last year than
11:52Kirk Cousin was the year.
11:53He got paid in blew out his Achilles.
11:561.2 million.
11:58Yeah, that's what he's gonna Leroy.
11:59That's what exactly what's gonna happen with him.
12:01Okay.
12:01I don't know why you think he's gonna get double dip of 30
12:04million.
12:04You think that he's gonna take home 70 million dollars next
12:07year.
12:07Wait, you first of all, are you clear on what they have to
12:10pay him that he's a hundred million guaranteed if they cut
12:12him?
12:13He's getting a hundred million guaranteed when you cut.
12:16He's getting a hundred million guaranteed depends on when
12:18you cut fine, dude, but he's gonna make a lot of money from
12:19the Falcons.
12:20Sure on the cheap skis for somebody else.
12:23Sure.
12:23Okay.
12:24Why do you think he's gonna make 30 million dollars with
12:26a second team?
12:27Because the team that he would go to sucks and he ain't
12:30giving no discounts.
12:33I disagree.
12:34Okay, I don't think he's gonna go to a team that sucks.
12:37Who probably he's probably of the teams that need a quarterback
12:40who doesn't suck.
12:43Right there, baby.
12:44No, all you gotta do all here.
12:45We are.
12:46No, all you have to do is roll the dice.
12:49You have you know what?
12:50That's like that's like saying you can have your own show
12:54here.
12:55Hmm.
12:56You can go be a producer at ESPN.
12:59No, we're no check.
13:00Yes, it is.
13:01You're saying I wouldn't go be a backup.
13:03You're gonna go into the place where there's no chance.
13:05See, here's the thing.
13:06It's like going to produce for just make it Mike and Mike,
13:11but Mike Greenberg has has consistent laryngitis all the
13:15time to the point.
13:17We're like, we can't trust this guy anymore.
13:18His voice never works.
13:19It's getting up and I'm like Tobes get in there like I got
13:25you, dude.
13:27I'm in there first.
13:29I'm getting paid from Atlanta.
13:30So I'm all good.
13:31I'm good.
13:36No.
13:38No, there if there's three or four teams competing for
13:42Kirk Cousins, he gonna make 25 30 million.
13:47I think you're nuts.
13:48Nobody ever is in that scenario.
13:51Nobody's ever in that scenario when they're getting that
13:53much money from another team.
13:54Okay.
13:56Okay.
13:56Has anyone double dip like that before?
13:58Yes.
13:59Who's double dip like he can't name one guy who's had like
14:02he's just saying that but he can't name one guy because
14:05it's always you go somewhere on the cheapest and then the
14:07next year he might make a lot of money.
14:09But this year, this is cheapskies year best position for
14:13myself.
14:14And honestly, if you knew tool was going to get hurt all
14:17you got to be there for is a playoff run.
14:20Wait a minute.
14:21Licking his chops on offense.
14:22He already knows and the Cousins family would love would
14:24love Miami's explain this.
14:28You've been a starting quarterback.
14:31Your whole career.
14:33You have an opportunity career.
14:36Huh?
14:36That's all career.
14:36Here's a backup to RGG three.
14:39Two years.
14:41Not a full career.
14:41Okay.
14:42I mean three, three years really.
14:44So let me get this straight.
14:48You've been a starter for a majority of your career.
14:53You have an opportunity at maybe five or six organizations
14:57where you could go in and start battle organization though.
15:01That's the nature of football, but here's a team you think
15:05Kansas City wants them.
15:07But this is my point.
15:08So this is why you're not a grown-up in this argument,
15:09right?
15:10You're not.
15:10No, you're not a grown-up.
15:11This is why they play want to keep as a player.
15:14If you have an opportunity to start you're going to go
15:17there.
15:18You're not going to go.
15:19If you had a choice of being a starter here or a backup here
15:22go and be a backup.
15:23Hear me out though.
15:24Okay.
15:25This is why I think you're missing the boat.
15:27Would you rather go to Raiders?
15:30Terrible Jets.
15:31Terrible.
15:32Make the money the same.
15:33Let's just say it's five million dollars for all of them.
15:35Okay, just hear me out.
15:36It I really wrote.
15:38I really I think you're out to lunch at this whole money thing.
15:40So let's just make the money the same.
15:42Would you rather be started for the Jets started for the Raiders
15:47back up to the Dolphins with a quarterback who gets hurt all
15:51the time who clearly that's the best offense and an offense,
15:55you know,
15:57you're telling me you're taking Raiders Jets.
16:00I'm taking that money.
16:01I just made the money the same dude.
16:03I literally made the money the same.
16:04I didn't play the game.
16:05You didn't play the game.
16:06No, you didn't play the game as long.
16:08This is why you're not a girl as long as there's teams as a
16:11play the game.
16:12Wait, you can play the game.
16:13Guess what?
16:13As well.
16:14Teams competing for your services.
16:17Somebody gonna pay.
16:19I'm telling you didn't play the way it works.
16:20You didn't play the game.
16:21That's how to show up.
16:23We didn't play the 230 million guaranteed.
16:25I can't play games with you because you don't play the game.
16:27No, it's like I want to play Monopoly and you're sitting here
16:29playing go fish.
16:31This kind of has the writing of a wager.
16:34Yeah, Kirk Cousins at the worst.
16:4020 million.
16:40Look at that.
16:41That's crazy.
16:41Take that take that worse.
16:4320 million dollars wage for what take that for what you think
16:47he's gonna make 20 million dollars annually back who starting
16:51quarter who who is going to pay him that who can the Browns
16:57even afford that?
17:00I don't know what.