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Originally Posted by Hootie
Wrong. It's easier to trade a player with one year left in their contract. It's much tougher to trade a guy like say, Culpepper, because he's owed 100 friggin' million dollars. No one is going to take on that, and if they do, the Vikings won't get shit in return other than cap relief.
The most we'd get for Tony G would be a second rounder...and that's not a bash to Tony G, either.
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Let's look at the Patrick Surtan trade (Dolphins to Chiefs). The trade couldn't happen because he only had one year left on his contract. No team is going to shell out big compensation (draft picks) when they'll only have the player for one year.
You could make the argument that we should wait to renegotiate his contract until the rest of the trade peramiters are in place, but that would mean trading him this year. The only way to have him this year and trade him in the future is to renegotiate now.
Luz
again, imo, carl is doing the right thing...