Capt Jack
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Capt Jack
@CaptJackRaider
Lifelong Raiders junkie. Under a black flag we sail and the sea shall be our empire. 🏴☠️


New Raiders QB Kirk Cousins will now make $20 million fully guaranteed for playing the 2026 season, per sources. That’s double the $10M guarantee Cousins had left on his Falcons contract, and puts him in line to potentially be the Week 1 starter in Las Vegas. Here’s how it breaks down: 🏈 Falcons pay $8.7M in 2026, with the Raiders paying the $1.3 minimum base salary. 🏈 Raiders pay Cousins a $10M fully guaranteed roster bonus on the third day of the league year next March that is not subject to offsets. 🏈 Raiders hold a two-year, $80M option for 2027-28, which is unlikely (though not impossible) to be picked up. 🏈 The deal also includes two void years in 2029-30 for cap purposes. On paper, it’s a three-year, $81.3M deal (or five for $172M with the void years). In reality, it’s one-year, $20 million for Kirk Cousins, who now will have played under fully guaranteed contracts for 11 consecutive seasons.

Only? How many did your sorry ass play in?


Same guy that helped hire Pete Carroll, Patrick Graham, and Chip Kelly? Something to be said for ripping out the Band-Aid though.


I kept going back to a conversation I had with John Spytek at the Combine. He said they had to be very "sober" with where they were as an organization and a roster as they were approaching this offseason. That stuck with me. It felt like he knew what is ahead with this rebuild if they want to do it the right way. It felt like the compensation for Crosby was always going help them start turning this. And if they didn't do it now, who Crosby be at his best when they became a contender, or would his value be this high in a year or two?














