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720pete wrote:My guess is he will tell the Vikings he's open to a $1-2 million paycut, and think he's doing the Vikings a huge favor. The Vikings will ask him to take a pay cut of $5-8 million and he will balk and get angry at the Vikings Front Office and say something asinine and stupid about the Vikings to the media. Then the Vikings will cut him. Then he will start feeling out other teams and realize he's hardly worth anything.

TSonn wrote: When I first saw the news about this interview I had a similar reaction. After watching the full interview, though, he spent about 80% of the time explaining why he wants to return to the Vikings and 20% talking about the other teams because he was badgered by the First Take crew.

J. Kapp 11 wrote:True, but the fact that he is willing to name teams, let alone that he's given it that much consideration, tells me that his first priority is getting all the money he can get, with his own personal success coming in second. He's obviously given a lot of thought to where else he'd like to play, and those are all teams that a) prefer to run the ball a lot, and b) have shown they're willing to shell out large sums of money.

I don't blame AP for looking out for #1. But at some point, most players put winning a championship high on the priority list. The fact that none of those teams is close to championship level tells me a lot.

PacificNorseWest wrote:I'm just sick of AP's fumbling. If he puts up any stink about a pay cut whatsoever, cut him and let him go to Tampa for all I care.

PurpleMustReign wrote: I wonder why he likes Tampa? Maybe he wants to play with Winston?

IIsweet wrote: Tampa has every piece to be a very good team. Plus playing half your games where there's no state tax saves a lot of money !!!

IIsweet wrote:I think that the Bucs are a great fit for him. They need and want that big name superstar type. With us having rights to AD, maybe we can trade him to the Bucs ?

We had our first meeting in December, and then our scouts will be coming in in a couple weeks and head down to the Senior Bowl,” he said. “I saw most of those kids that are going to be in the Senior Bowl, but I think offensively the two strongest positions — and I don’t know all the juniors that are coming out or who’s staying or going and that won’t be decided for a couple weeks — but it looks like an extremely strong running back class. I think the tight end class is going to be extremely strong."

Then there’s the big question on two of the key pieces of the Vikings offense in Adrian Peterson and Teddy Bridgewater. Spielman talked about each player’s unique circumstances.

“I think Adrian will always defy the odds,” Spielman said. “He got hurt this year, but I still think he has a lot of football left in him. Those will be some of the tough decisions we have to make, and what you do is when you go through this process you’re trying to weigh in where are you going to put your resources and financially where are you going to spend your money.

“We have a lot of young guys coming up this year. I think Xavier Rhodes is an extremely talented young player that we’re going to have to be mentally prepared to address his contract. Those decisions will be made once we get through the free agency and draft meetings. But I think Adrian Peterson has football left in him.”

Mothman wrote:
He'd probably have to agree to renegotiate his contract first. Under the terms of his current deal he's probably untradeable.