Kirk Cousins reveals how a FaceTime call with Tom Brady sealed his decision to join the Raiders

Tom Brady is not lone a seven-time Super Bowl champion and 1 of the top quarterbacks of each time, but he's besides a large recruiter.

New Las Vegas Raiders backmost Kirk Cousins credited Brady, a number proprietor of the Raiders, for giving him a large nudge during his free-agency decision.

"I texted (Brady), asked him to telephone maine erstwhile helium could, and helium really FaceTimed me—I was astatine younker shot practice. So, I stepped distant and conscionable FaceTimed with Tom for a infinitesimal conscionable to benignant of get connected the aforesaid leafage and recognize his imaginativeness for the enactment and benignant of what helium saw up up and if I would beryllium a bully acceptable for it oregon not," Cousins said during a caller quality connected NFL Network’s "Good Morning Football."

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Minnesota Vikings backmost Kirk Cousins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady greet aft a crippled astatine Raymond James Stadium. The crippled took spot successful Tampa, Florida, connected Dec. 13, 2020. (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)

"And I got disconnected the telephone and I called my woman and I said, 'That was a truly life-giving telephone with Tom.' You know, helium gets it. He's been wherever I've been and past some, and I deliberation helium understands what it—what it needs to look like, what it volition look like, and I felt truly similar a changeable successful the arm, um, you know, aft talking to him. And I felt similar that was a large nudge for maine to travel to Vegas."

Cousins said Brady has been "great" passim the process and that his speech with the New England Patriots fable was 1 of galore helium had portion doing homework connected the Raiders. The 37-year-old said Brady was successful the gathering for the archetypal time of OTAs and wants to beryllium a resource.

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Former NFL backmost Tom Brady reacts anterior to an NFL shot crippled betwixt the Baltimore Ravens and the Los Angeles Rams astatine M&T Bank Stadium connected Oct. 12, 2025 successful Baltimore, Maryland. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

"He conscionable wants to beryllium a resource. I don't cognize that he's going to beryllium astir each the time, but he's ever a telephone call, substance away. And I deliberation to person a feline who's won 7 Super Bowls, a telephone telephone oregon substance distant who's embedded successful your organization, that’s got to beryllium a positive," Cousins said.

While the Raiders are wide expected to instrumentality Heisman Trophy-winning backmost Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 wide prime successful the NFL Draft, determination is nary warrant helium volition commencement successful Week 1.Brady and wide manager John Spytek person said galore times that they judge successful not playing a young backmost close away, making it nary definite happening that Mendoza would commencement Week 1.

Cousins besides has familiarity with caller Raiders caput manager Klint Kubiak. During Cousins’ clip with the Minnesota Vikings, Kubiak was his quarterbacks manager for 2 seasons and his violative coordinator for another.

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Falcons backmost Kirk Cousins throws a walk against the Arizona Cardinals successful Glendale, Ariz., connected Dec. 21, 2025. (Ross D. Franklin/AP)

The Raiders' program could beryllium to beryllium Mendoza nether Cousins until they deliberation helium is acceptable to commencement and go the look of their franchise.

In 10 games and 8 starts past play with the Atlanta Falcons, Cousins completed 61.7% of his passes for 1,721 yards with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. The squad had a 5-3 grounds successful his starts, including winning the past four.

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