With Joe Flacco in Minnesota Vikings Jerseys 2019 , Case Keenum is likely out in Denver. Could Keenum work his way back to Minnesota?cause the Vikings have quarterback Kirk Cousins under contract for two more years, at fully-guaranteed compensation packages of $28 million in 2019 and $30 million in 2020.But let’s not dismiss it immediately. If the Vikings could find a trade partner for the balance of Cousins’ deal, they’d take a cap hit of only $2 million (Cousins received a $3 million signing bonus). The question is whether someone would trade for Cousins’ remaining agreement, at $58 million over two years.There are three teams to possibly watch in this regard. First, the Bengals. New coach Zac Taylor has worked for the past two years with Rams coach Sean McVay, who has worked with and who has a high opinion of Cousins. Taylor told that he’ll be using McVay’s playbook as a starting point for the Bengals, which would make for a seamless transition, if Cousins were to land in Cincinnati.Second, the Jaguars. Former Vikings offensive coordinator John DeFilippo is now the offensive coordinator in Jacksonville. With DeFilippo also tied to Eagles quarterback Nick Foles, the Jaguars could explore either — and they could leverage the Eagles against the Vikings in order to get the best possible deal.Third Irv Smith black jersey , the Giants. Per a league source, Giants coach Pat Shurmur had lobbied for the Vikings to sign Kirk Cousins before Shurmur became the coach of the Giants. While that may not bode well for Keenum to become a candidate to be signed by New York, it could prompt the Giants to bring Cousins back to the NFC East.Apart from Cousins’ contract is the compensation necessary to effect a trade. If the Vikings’ organization has come to the same conclusion that many Minnesota fans have — that Cousins may not be the guy — maybe the Vikings would take not very much at all in order to wipe Cousins’ contract off the books. Especially if new offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski (who has been with the Vikings since 2006) believes in the guy who took the Vikings to the final four in 2017. Over the past few seasons, I’ve tried to keep the amount of complaining I do about National Football League officials to a minimum, at least on here. (Twitter is another story. . .sometimes.) And while the Minnesota Vikings’ offense performed poorly enough where they probably didn’t deserve to defeat the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football, the Seahawks certainly didn’t need any additional assistance.But they got it on what might have been the biggest play of the game.With the Vikings trailing the Seahawks 6-0 and facing a 4th-and-9 from the Seattle 29-yard line, the Vikings brought on kicker Dan Bailey to attempt a 47-yard field goal. The kick, as you can see from the video above, was blocked by Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner to preserve that lead. To block the kick, Wagner made an incredible leap over the Vikings’ offensive line and got into position to make the block.The officials Irv Smith Jersey Mens , initially, threw a flag on Wagner for violating the league’s rule against “leverage” on kick attempts. The penalty would have been a 15-yard personal foul, and would have given the Vikings a fresh set of downs at the Seattle 14-yard line.And then the officials, led by head referee Brad Allen, decided that they would pick up the flag after all. The penalty was negated, and the Seahawks marched down the field to score the game’s first touchdown and effectively end the competitive portion of Monday night’s contest.Why was the flag picked up? Well, according to the NFL rulebook, graciously provided by ESPN’s Kevin Seifert, I’m not entirely sure.Seifert’s tweet comes directly from the NFL rulebook, which you can find right here at the league’s official website. The specific section cited is Section 3 Irv Smith Jersey nfl draft , which you can find on page 52 of the rulebook. It reads as follows:The relevant clause. . .I think it’s a clause. . .here is (p). (The italicized parts were apparently added this season. The link has been corrected.) As you can see in the video, Wagner quite clearly put his hands on his teammate’s backs in order to jump over the line and get into position to block the kick.It seems that other folks that have officiated this game before thought that the flag was properly thrown.Now, look, I understand that the officiating in this one wasn’t the reason that the Minnesota Vikings lost on Monday night. They had plenty of opportunities to take advantage of in Seattle and managed to grasp none of them.Do I have any faith that, even if the flag had stood, the Vikings’ offense would have managed to do anything positive with the ball at the Seattle 14-yard line? No. None. Zero.Is it likely that the Vikings would have lost on Monday night had the officials gotten this call right? Yeah, probably.But that doesn’t change the fact that Brad Allen’s crew ignored a rule that, honestly, couldn’t be spelled out more clearly in the league rulebook. Bobby Wagner broke the rules to block that field goal, the officials were set to call a penalty on it Everson Griffen Jersey , and the officials decided that they’d go ahead and pick up the flag and wipe out the penalty.Too many times this season, the officials have been the story this NFL season. This is the first time, to my recollection, that it’s really affected the Vikings. I’m guessing that nobody will be held to account for it, because that’s generally not how officiating in the NFL works, but the bottom line is that they screwed up, and they screwed up big.