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Fitzgerald trade winds just might start blowing
Despite negotiations for a new contract that would add badly needed salary-cap relief dragging on with no end in sight, team insiders tell us star WR Larry Fitzgerald continues to wholeheartedly pledge his allegiance to the Cardinals. But the way we hear it, if there isn’t any substantial progress toward a new deal in the next week or so, the Cardinals might have no choice but to consider trading Fitzgerald, whose name has been linked recently with at least one team — Philadelphia — in a possible deal that would reportedly send Eagles CB Lito Sheppard and a second-round pick to the desert. “But there’s no way the Cardinals will go for that deal,” one team insider told PFW. “I would think they would demand a considerable haul in draft choices (rather than) just Lito Sheppard and a No. 2. If Fitzgerald is going anywhere, the Cardinals will ask for the moon.” We hear the biggest hang-up in contract talks at present with Fitzgerald’s agent, Eugene Parker, is the amount of guaranteed money his client would receive. Not helping matters for the Cardinals are the hefty contracts that have been doled out to receivers early in this year’s free-agent market. Not only has Parker taken particular note of the latest WR parameters. Team insiders believe Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin and his agent are just as interested in those numbers, with Boldin expected to deservedly push hard for a new deal in line with whatever Fitzgerald ends up receiving.
This story was just referenced on NFL Network...
Fitzgerald trade winds just might start blowing
Despite negotiations for a new contract that would add badly needed salary-cap relief dragging on with no end in sight, team insiders tell us star WR Larry Fitzgerald continues to wholeheartedly pledge his allegiance to the Cardinals. But the way we hear it, if there isn’t any substantial progress toward a new deal in the next week or so, the Cardinals might have no choice but to consider trading Fitzgerald, whose name has been linked recently with at least one team — Philadelphia — in a possible deal that would reportedly send Eagles CB Lito Sheppard and a second-round pick to the desert. “But there’s no way the Cardinals will go for that deal,” one team insider told PFW. “I would think they would demand a considerable haul in draft choices (rather than) just Lito Sheppard and a No. 2. If Fitzgerald is going anywhere, the Cardinals will ask for the moon.” We hear the biggest hang-up in contract talks at present with Fitzgerald’s agent, Eugene Parker, is the amount of guaranteed money his client would receive. Not helping matters for the Cardinals are the hefty contracts that have been doled out to receivers early in this year’s free-agent market. Not only has Parker taken particular note of the latest WR parameters. Team insiders believe Cardinals WR Anquan Boldin and his agent are just as interested in those numbers, with Boldin expected to deservedly push hard for a new deal in line with whatever Fitzgerald ends up receiving.
