Dalvin trending again

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@purplefaithful said:

@FLVike said:

Boomer said the Vikings have 7m offer on the table. From Purple PTW

I dont know Boomers source, but I dont believe it. 

Ive already moved on and am looking forward to seeing what these younger backs can do in the right rotation. 

Boomer got his agent wrong, so there's reason to doubt him. However, the tea leaves do seem to suggest the Vikings do have a standing offer to Cook. Is it $7M? No idea, but I think there is one. 

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The B in Boomer stands for baloney.  They are not bringing him back.  5m dead cap + 7m salary = 12m on the books for a RB in a crowded rb room, where they signed Mattison and drafted a rookie and have Nwangwu and Chandler?  There's only one football and JJ and Hock are going to get theirs.  A 20 carry feature back is not the plan.

KOC's comments on what he wants from the run game tell us that an aging, high priced guy who's trending to be the biggest 0-1 yard gainer on early downs in the NFL is also not the plan.  

Dalvin's agent must be trying to show his client how hard he's trying because the futile campaign of media leaks detailing all the amazing mystery offers out there for Dalvin somehow still has him sitting on the sidelines without a contract.

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https://www.startribune.com/court-filing...600291148/

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@StickyBun said:
https://www.startribune.com/court-filing...600291148/

Read the full text and be glad he's gone.

Former Minnesota Vikings star
running back Dalvin Cook offered $1 million to a former girlfriend to
clear him of wrongdoing despite her previously sworn abuse allegations
against him, according to a document filed in Dakota County District
Court.






The
revelation came in a now-sealed filing by Gracelyn Trimble's attorney.
The document was filed in opposition to Cook's request to bar testimony
at trial of his cash settlement offers of $800,000 and then $1 million.






Cook's
initial offer of $800,000 came with a requirement that Trimble sign a
sworn affidavit denying abuse claims, the document said. But Trimble has
already testified under oath that Cook physically abused her. The $1
million offer required Trimble to send a letter — not sworn testimony —
to the NFL absolving Cook of wrongdoing.






Attorney
Daniel Cragg wrote that Cook's initial cash offer was "not only
evidence of a crime" but admissible at trial to show he tried to coax
Trimble to perjure herself by changing her sworn testimony.






"This
does not pass the smell test, and can and should be admissible as
evidence of Cook's consciousness of guilt," Cragg's filing read. The
Star Tribune obtained a copy of the document Thursday, hours before it
was sealed by Dakota County Judge Jamie Cork.






Trimble's
personal injury lawsuit against Cook is set for trial in front of Cork
next year. A hearing on the recent filing is set for Monday. Lawyers for
Cook and Trimble did not comment.






Cook, who was released by the Vikings in June after six seasons, remains a free agent. In November 2021, Trimble filed a lawsuit against Cook alleging physical and emotional abuse. He then filed a defamation lawsuit against her in Hennepin County. Both cases are pending.






In a
deposition, Cook said he was aware his lawyers had initially offered
Trimble $800,000 in May to provide a sworn affidavit exonerating him of
wrongdoing, the filing said.






After
Trimble's lawyer told Cook's counsel that she wouldn't sign a
"fraudulent affidavit," his lawyers increased the offer a few hours
later to $1 million. That higher offer required Trimble to sign a letter
to the NFL "relieving Mr. Cook of a wrongdoing" in language to be
negotiated. Trimble rejected the second offer as well.






Cragg's
latest filing also describes Trimble's sworn allegations against Cook,
saying that after he threw her over a couch and into a coffee table, her
forehead and nose gushed blood. When she went upstairs to wash off the
blood, Cook followed her, threw her down, pinned her, punched and choked
her then grabbed his rifle, pointed it at her head and yelled death
threats, the filing said.






At
one point, he grabbed a broomstick and beat her before throwing her
against a wall. When she fell to the ground, Cook continued to kick her
in the hips and ribs before she got up and ran down the driveway in
search of help, but he led her back to the house and took her phone, the
filing said.






Police
were not called to his Inver Grove Heights home in the incident on Nov.
19, 2021, when Trimble has said she flew to Minnesota to break up with
Cook and get her things from his house.






According
to her initial lawsuit, Cook and Trimble met on a Florida beach in 2018
and began an off-and-on, sometimes rocky relationship.

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Yah, that sounds pretty fugly and no doubt he didnt want that going public. 

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Wow, while I don't necessarily agree Cook's cash offer was "evidence of a crime," this is an ugly situation all around and probably part of the reason Cook remains unsigned. 

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How does the process of “settling out of court” normally
work?  Like did they miss an NDA step or
something?  Like you never hear about this in any other cases.

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I think the issue of concern by the attorney for the girlfriend (and the girlfriend) is that if she were to sign that letter, she would be admitting that she perjured herself in her testimony.  Regardless, I have two thoughts...1) Cook's value on the open market just got diminished significantly because he has a much clearer *asterisk* by his name, and 2) there is no way in God's green earth that the Vikings will consider re-signing him, even at a much lower cost.  We're good at the RB position IMO, and there's nothing more to see here.  Best of luck to ya Dalvin.

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It's reality check time. There are other running backs that aren't signed 

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@MaroonBells said:
Wow, while I don't necessarily agree Cook's cash offer was "evidence of a crime," this is an ugly situation all around and probably part of the reason Cook remains unsigned. 

Yeah those allegations are bad. Dalvin was a team leader here too but when romance gets involved it can change people. Huge fan of his on the field but if true he should be locked up.
@medaille Great question, I don't know the answer. MT might be right that Dalvin's team made the hush money offer too late? Ugly situation and I doubt any team is going to sign him with this black cloud floating over him.