The Viking Age » michael smith http://thevikingage.com A Minnesota Vikings Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Mortensen on Cutler Trade That Never Happened http://thevikingage.com/2009/03/01/mortensen-on-cutler-trade-that-never-happened/ http://thevikingage.com/2009/03/01/mortensen-on-cutler-trade-that-never-happened/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:34:52 +0000 Dan Zinski http://thevikingage.com/?p=1644 Interesting remarks from Chris Mortensen on Denver‘s efforts to land Matt Cassel via a three-way trade involving Jay Cutler.  Mort never mentions the Vikings in the report – so far, only Michael Smith has connected Minnesota to the story – but he does confirm that Tampa Bay was approached.  Here’s the interesting thing:  According to [...]

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]]> Interesting remarks from Chris Mortensen on Denver‘s efforts to land Matt Cassel via a three-way trade involving Jay Cutler.  Mort never mentions the Vikings in the report – so far, only Michael Smith has connected Minnesota to the story – but he does confirm that Tampa Bay was approached.  Here’s the interesting thing:  According to Mortensen, the Bucs were willing to offer a first and a third to New England, with the Broncos getting Cassel and Tampa landing Cutler, but New England wouldn’t go for it.  Bill Belichick, who by that time had already sent Mike Vrabel to the Chiefs as part of the trade and certainly had a verbal commitment with Scott Pioli for the rest, could’ve gotten a better pick than the second-rounder he ended up receiving, and a third-rounder to boot, but turned it down.  Mortensen wonders aloud whether Belichick’s refusal to deal with Denver has something to do with bad feelings toward former assistant Josh McDaniels who is now the Broncos’ head coach.  If this is the case, then that trade never had a chance of happening, with the Vikings or Tampa or Detroit (the other team Denver reportedly approached) or anyone else.

]]> http://thevikingage.com/2009/03/01/mortensen-on-cutler-trade-that-never-happened/feed/ 7 Broncos Contacted Vikings About Trading Jay Cutler? http://thevikingage.com/2009/02/28/broncos-contacted-vikings-about-trading-jay-cutler/ http://thevikingage.com/2009/02/28/broncos-contacted-vikings-about-trading-jay-cutler/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:04:46 +0000 Dan Zinski http://thevikingage.com/?p=1639 As you have certainly already heard, today the Kansas City Chiefs swung a trade that brought them Matt Cassel, the back-up-turned-starter who wowed the sports world enough to become perhaps the most coveted player on the market this off-season.  The actual trade was only the beginning of the story, however.  In its wake, we learned [...]

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]]> As you have certainly already heard, today the Kansas City Chiefs swung a trade that brought them Matt Cassel, the back-up-turned-starter who wowed the sports world enough to become perhaps the most coveted player on the market this off-season.  The actual trade was only the beginning of the story, however.  In its wake, we learned that the Denver Broncos had gottem themselves involved in the Cassel talks, and dangled quarterback Jay Cutler as bait.  One widely-reported scenario had the Broncos sending Cutler to Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers sending a package to New England and the Pats shipping Cassel to Denver to reunite with his old offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who is now the Broncos’ head coach.  But here’s where it gets interesting:  Michael Smith of ESPN is now reporting that the Broncos called the Vikings and tried to get them interested in the same deal – Cutler to the Vikes, Cassel to Denver and some sort of package from Minnesota to the Pats.  Obviously, the Vikings turned the deal down.

We of course don’t know what the Vikes would’ve been required to give up in such a trade.  It’s possible that the price was too steep (of course, the Chiefs just got Cassel for a 2nd rounder, so…).  It’s also possible that Michael Smith is full of you know what.  The only thing we know for sure is that Cutler heard about the trade talks and apparently isn’t too happy about the whole thing.  It must suck knowing that your new coach tried to get rid of you so he could bring in his guy from his old team.  In the end, the other guy from New England, Scott Pioli, got his man. And the anti-Sage Rosenfels crowd just got a whoooole lot more to gripe about.

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