Dalvin trending again

i suspect its more about teams not wanting to pay his remaining contract.  now DC at a lower compensation level and not having to give up anything in the process... different story.

@"JimmyinSD" said: i suspect its more about teams not wanting to pay his remaining contract.  now DC at a lower compensation level and not having to give up anything in the process... different story.

The fact that he hasn't signed yet tells me that none of the offers Dalvin's gotten are up to what he was expecting or hoping for.  Now his agent is trying to hype interest by posting on social media that Dalvin's in Miami, the inference being "Hey, you other teams better raise your offers or Dalvin's a Dolphin."

The response from everyone else seems to be a yawn.

Welcome to reality in 2023 Dalvin: dinged-up RB's with dubious analytics don't get $10 mil.

Teams aren't RB focused, it's turned into a commodity position like special teams.  They want young bodies that they can burn through on the cheap.  

I thought Dalvin might find a team that would pay him around 5m but the market is so weak he may have to swallow hard and take a vet minimum deal with incentives.  His agent beating a drum has no effect.

@"MaroonBells" said: Seems everyone wants Dalvin.

Are you being funny?   Or did you just have a chat with his agent?  :)

Odd we couldn't even squeeze a late rounder out of that.

The time to do that was before the draft, but he maneuvered his surgery to prevent it I think. Can't pass a physical, can't get traded.   His game seemed to be wait out the Vikings and then maybe they'd bring him back at full money?  I have no idea.   This Purple offseason has been completely opaque in so many ways.  Kwesi is either a mad genius or a total idiot.  Time will tell.   

But I suspect the Vikings did Dalvin a solid by instead releasing him and letting him choose where he wants to go.

A solid would be releasing him at least right after the draft rather than waiting a couple of months while what little RB market there was completely dried up.

Is this bad business? Or is this the kind of altruism that gets the Vikings ranked #1 among free agents and is better business long term? 

Now I know you're being funny!  :p   I know the NFLPA has time on it's hands to cook up talking points but let's be real, free agents in a league that features very short careers are interested in 3 things:

1.  Money
2.  More Money
3.  More Money and a shot at a ring
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99. The Viking's lunch buffet and workout facilities

He wants to be a on a team that needs that final piece and he wants more money.
The realization that the Vikings offered more money than any other team must be very disappointing.

@"FLVike" said:

He wants to be a on a team that needs that final piece and he wants more money. The realization that the Vikings offered more money than any other team must be very disappointing.

I think the realization the Vikings "probably" offered the most $ is more reaffirming than anything. 

But yah, at this point in his career he wants a ring and $$$. 

He may get a $5mm contract, but it will be incentive laden given the position. 

Bad era to be a RB, great era to be an edge, WR, QB or OT. 

@"FLVike" said:

He wants to be a on a team that needs that final piece and he wants more money. The realization that the Vikings offered more money than any other team must be very disappointing.

Yes, I think the Vikes offered a certain amount of money way back in the beginning and the agent told Dalvin if released he would get a new contract for more than what the Vikings were offering.  Now the agent has been unable to come through and the agent is doing everything possible to try to create interest and a bidding war.  We will see whether this agent survives this screw-up.  Sometimes, one in the hand is better than two in the bush.

Agent is probably praying to the injury gods as we speak.

Boomer said the Vikings have 7m offer on the table. From Purple PTWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dzQG5c088

@"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. 

@"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. 

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.

https://www.startribune.com/court-filing-dalvin-cook-offered-ex-girlfriend-1-million-to-write-nfl-absolving-him-of-wrongdoing/600291148/

@"StickyBun" said: https://www.startribune.com/court-filing-dalvin-cook-offered-ex-girlfriend-1-million-to-write-nfl-absolving-him-of-wrongdoing/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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

@"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.

Watching the season team highlight recap on NFL Network today really makes you realize the impact Cook had last season in a lot of these come from behind wins;

- 53 yard TD run in the 4th quarter at Miami
- 81 yard TD run in the 3rd quarter at Buffalo
- 12 yard, one handed TD catch in the 4th quarter at Washington
- 64 yard TD reception versus the Colts in the 4th quarter taking a short pass and turning it into a huge play. 

All these plays were huge catalysts in coming back in these games. Anybody that doesn't think we are going to miss Cooks explosiveness and has "ho-hummed" his release is fooling themselves..