This is a nauseating conversation, right? We have had this every single season since Kirk Cousins joined the team. Why has this been a constant?
Cousins hasn’t delivered what he was brought to Minnesota to do: win a Super Bowl.
He was thought to be the one player that would put the Vikings over the top and get them past the NFC Championship Game, but they haven’t made it past the divisional round. Heck, they have only made it to the divisional round one time.
The raw stats have always been good but that’s not the issue here. The issues have been far more rooted in situational football and the intangibles Cousins doesn’t possess. Those talks got accellerated when he wouldn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, essentially splitting the fanbase down the middle.
This season, the Vikings are at a crossroads on how to approach the future. With the future in mind, here are five reasons the Vikings should trade Cousins this offseason.