Kirk Cousins drops the first episode of his mini-documentary
By Chris Schad
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback dropped the first episode of a mini-documentary on Tuesday, which chronicled his decision to sign with the team last March.
As Kirk Cousins was entertaining his free agency offers last spring, it was revealed that the eventual Minnesota Vikings quarterback hired a film crew to document the process that led to his decision.
After about five months of production time, the first episode of the mini-documentary, NFL Life, Kirk Cousins, was released on Tuesday. The first episode of the documentary, titled “The Path to Minnesota”, starts at the very beginning of free agency this offseason.
Cousins recalled hearing of the trade that basically punched his ticket out of Washington, when the Redskins acquired Alex Smith over Super Bowl weekend.
"“It came out of left field. No one had told me. Nobody from the Redskins said that this could happen or warned me. It felt like one of the big players in free agency, one of the teams I was most interested in playing for, was no longer in the picture.”"
When the legal tampering period opened for free agency, Cousins revealed that he was looking for either a fully guaranteed deal or another one-year deal similar to his final two seasons in Washington, which were played under the franchise tag.
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The New York Jets stepped up to that plate offering Cousins a $90 million, fully guaranteed contract over three years that would be larger than the $84 million, three-year deal he would eventually sign with the Vikings.
In between discussions wit his agent, the free-agent quarterback spent his time googling potential coordinators he could be working with (including Minnesota’s John DiFilippo), watching news on his negotiations break through NFL Network and other media outlets, and returning the call of a AAA agent who wanted to know where he was signing after nobody from his immediate family would answer their phone when he made the decision to go to Minnesota.
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The episode, which runs just over 13 minutes long, can be found on the Vikings’ official website and NFL.com.