Adrian Peterson's "agent" refuses meeting with Vikes GM

Dave_in-NC · Mar 20, 2015

speedkilz88 said:
Usually the misery is with the teams not the player.

He sure sound very unhappy.

ErikWilliamsHeadSlap · Mar 20, 2015

JoeBoBBY said:
Why? What do they gain?

Boomer Esiason said he would cut him right now. Cut him and move on. I think thats what I would do. Stop wasting time on someone who doesn't want to play for them anymore.

Boomer is another clown who thinks he is morally superior and that everything is black and white and absolute.

ErikWilliamsHeadSlap · Mar 20, 2015

JoeBoBBY said:
Why? What do they gain?

Boomer Esiason said he would cut him right now. Cut him and move on. I think thats what I would do. Stop wasting time on someone who doesn't want to play for them anymore.

Because as long as they have his rights he is an asset. Either on the field or as trade bait. At least that is what they are clinging to. At the end of the day their business is football and they have to try to improve their team anyway they can. They have a new stadium to fill. And if they don't have a transcendant star to help fill it, they better have a good team to play in it. The Vikings blew this last year when they bowed to public pressure and turned their back on him. They are just posturing now in attempt to get something out of this whole fiasco. The NFL as a whole would be advised to remember that their business is football. It is not public relations. It is not being the world's moral compass.

MRV52 · Mar 20, 2015

Bowdown27 said:
PETERSON is screwed. He wanted to be cocky and say he won't play there etc and Minnesota holds all the cards. If I was them Id trade him to somewhere to ruin end of his career. Get a high pick and ship him off if I was minny

You along with many others in this thread just don't get it. It is AP that holds all the cards not the Vikings. No one in there right mind is going to trade for AP, knowing that the Vikings will have no choice but to let him go. They are not going to pay a RB with baggage and who doesn't want to be there 13M.

JoeBoBBY · Mar 20, 2015

Dave_in-NC said:
We do. But we will draft a RB to run behind it on a rookie deal. Makes much more sense to me.

I dont want to have to count on making the right call in the draft....I dont want to *****foot around.

imho. Just my opinion. Romo has 2 maybe 3 years left. After that, who knows??

I want Romo to get his SB. And I see the best chance for the Cowboys to make a SB run while Romo is at QB.

I dont want to depend on a rookie turning out to be as good as AP. I know, rookies never fail do they?

I see this chance to sign AP, as an opportunity that doesnt come around very often for Any franchise in the NFL. It just doesn't present itself very often.................

And for a franchise that hasn't won much of anything for 20 years now....I would think they take it.....They snap AP up and.....go for it.

ErikWilliamsHeadSlap said:
Because as long as they have his rights he is an asset. Either on the field or as trade bait. At least that is what they are clinging to. At the end of the day their business is football and they have to try to improve their team anyway they can. They have a new stadium to fill. And if they don't have a transcendant star to help fill it, they better have a good team to play in it. The Vikings blew this last year when they bowed to public pressure and turned their back on him. They are just posturing now in attempt to get something out of this whole fiasco. The NFL as a whole would be advised to remember that their business is football. It is not public relations. It is not being the world's moral compass.

I agree. And although Boomer can really get on his moral high ground, I have seen him do it many many times. I think he has a point. What is the best thing for this franchise? Sure, they "might" get a draft choice out of AP. I don't know though. I am thinking the best thing for the franchise and the football team, might be to send a message or just get it over with and wipe the slate clean. APs time is done here. We are moving on. Especially if it gets really bad..... Either way, AP isn't playing for Minnesota again. Get on with it.

NextGenBoys · Mar 20, 2015

Nexx said:
no need to groom a running back. its not like a QB. if youre a good running you can take over day 1 and be successful. you dont want to spend the cheap years of a draft pick to groomed. if you pick up AP you go with AP and what you have. you can always throw a 4th and 5th pick and see if its sticks on a running back but no reason to spend a high pick this year on a back if you get AP.

Yup no reason to draft a RB at all. AP and McFadden is more than enough. Throw in the possibility of Randle and Dunbar, and we haven't even mentioned Ryan Williams. If we get AP it's over.

MRV52 · Mar 20, 2015

Dave_in-NC said:
No, but they can sure keep him miserable for a long while.

Or AP can make it miserable on them.

Stash · Mar 20, 2015

Hoofbite said:
Why would the Vikings be unwilling to pay him?

They've been paying him nearly as much for 2 seasons and aren't hurting for cap space.

Because they've realized what everyone else has, that rate is completely out of whack with the market. They've also realized that with or without him, they're not good enough to win.

So paying him that much for 2015 when you're not winning a championship anyway, is a waste of resources.

Take note that, although they've publicly stated "We want Adrian back", not a single one of them will answer the follow up question of "under his current contract".

That's when you hear crickets chirping.

They don't want to pay him, but they don't want to let him go for nothing and they can't have it both ways.

Dave_in-NC · Mar 20, 2015

rat2k8 said:
Or AP can make it miserable on them.

They sound more ready for it than he does. They won two or three more games last season than the last season with him.

FuzzyLumpkins · Mar 20, 2015

Hoofbite said:
I wanna see how far both sides will go.

Hold out. Fine the piss out of him.

This kind of illustrates the difference in position. The Vikings tried an illegal open ended banishing due to interest pressure. No one cares.

ufcrules1 · Mar 20, 2015

Come to butthead............

speedkilz88 · Mar 20, 2015

Dave_in-NC said:
They sound more ready for it than he does. They won two or three more games last season than the last season with him.

He would only hold out until camp starts I would assume.

ErikWilliamsHeadSlap · Mar 20, 2015

JoeBoBBY said:
I dont want to have to count on making the right call in the draft....I dont want to *****foot around.

imho. Just my opinion. Romo has 2 maybe 3 years left. After that, who knows??

I want Romo to get his SB. And I see the best chance for the Cowboys to make a SB run while Romo is at QB.

I dont want to depend on a rookie turning out to be as good as AP. I know, rookies never fail do they?

I see this chance to sign AP, as an opportunity that doesnt come around very often for Any franchise in the NFL. It just doesn't present itself very often.................

And for a franchise that hasn't won much of anything for 20 years now....I would think they take it.....They snap AP up and.....go for it.

I agree. And although Boomer can really get on his moral high ground, I have seen him do it many many times. I think he has a point. What is the best thing for this franchise? Sure, they "might" get a draft choice out of AP. I don't know though. I am thinking the best thing for the franchise and the football team, might be to send a message or just get it over with and wipe the slate clean. APs time is done here. We are moving on. Especially if it gets really bad..... Either way, AP isn't playing for Minnesota again. Get on with it.

I'm guessing there are far more Viking fans desperate for him to be on their team than not. And if they can't have him then they are going to expect something in return.

USMarineVet · Mar 20, 2015

In the end the Vikes will get "something" for him. Most likely whoever is willing to give up the highest draft pick. Just my opinion.

Dave_in-NC · Mar 20, 2015

speedkilz88 said:
He would only hold out until camp starts I would assume.

Yup, that's not hurting the Vikes.

ElGatoGrande · Mar 20, 2015

Dale Hansen's head would explode if we brought in AP,,, so I'm all for it.

BoyzfanfromPGH · Mar 20, 2015

Honestly I feel as they're blowing smoke.

Hoofbite · Mar 20, 2015

stasheroo said:
Because they've realized what everyone else has, that rate is completely out of whack with the market. They've also realized that with or without him, they're not good enough to win.

So paying him that much for 2015 when you're not winning a championship anyway, is a waste of resources.

Take note that, although they've publicly stated "We want Adrian back", not a single one of them will answer the follow up question of "under his current contract".

That's when you hear crickets chirping.

They don't want to pay him, but they don't want to let him go for nothing and they can't have it both ways.

So sometime in the last year everyone figured out that AP was making too much?

Fredd · Mar 20, 2015

ErikWilliamsHeadSlap · Mar 20, 2015

Hoofbite said:
So sometime in the last year everyone figured out that AP was making too much?

No. It just took the Vikings this long.

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