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Did the Vikings speak to quarterback Aaron Rodgers? They did. Are they ruling out speaking to him again — and possibly signing him? They don't.
On Wednesday, G.M. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah confirmed that Rodgers and coach Kevin O'Connell "had a lot of conversations," which prompted an organizational dialogue about Rodgers.
"It's a new thing to talk about a player at that caliber," Adofo-Mensah said regarding Rodgers, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. "And I'm always somebody who wants to learn and grow myself and so just being involved in those dialogue was really special."
Adofo-Mensah did not rule out eventually circling back to Rodgers.
"For me to sit here and say that anything's 100 percent forever, that's just not the job," Adofo-Mensah said. "We're responding to scenarios and different information as it comes. So obviously things can change, but right now we're really happy with our [quarterback] room and we're going to look to upgrade it in different ways."
So what will they do about upgrading a group that currently consists of only J.J. McCarthy and Brett Rypien? Seifert writes that Adofo-Mensah implied the Vikings would wait until the April 29 deadline for the counting of free-agent signings toward the compensatory draft pick formula.
Options, in our view, continue to include Joe Flacco, Carson Wentz, and Ryan Tannehill — who has been a free agent for more than a year and whose signing right now would not impact the formula.
Rodgers would not count against the formula, either. He was cut by the Jets; he didn't become an unrestricted free agent through the expiration of his contract.
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On Wednesday, G.M. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah confirmed that Rodgers and coach Kevin O'Connell "had a lot of conversations," which prompted an organizational dialogue about Rodgers.
"It's a new thing to talk about a player at that caliber," Adofo-Mensah said regarding Rodgers, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com. "And I'm always somebody who wants to learn and grow myself and so just being involved in those dialogue
Adofo-Mensah did not rule out eventually circling back to Rodgers.
"For me to sit here and say that anything's 100 percent forever, that's just not the job," Adofo-Mensah said. "We're responding to scenarios and different information as it comes. So obviously things can change, but right now we're really happy with our [quarterback] room and we're going to look to upgrade it in different ways."
So what will they do about upgrading a group that currently consists of only J.J. McCarthy and Brett Rypien? Seifert writes that Adofo-Mensah implied the Vikings would wait until the April 29 deadline for the counting of free-agent signings toward the compensatory draft pick formula.
Options, in our view, continue to include Joe Flacco, Carson Wentz, and Ryan Tannehill — who has been a free agent for more than a year and whose signing right now would not impact the formula.
Rodgers would not count against the formula, either. He was cut by the Jets; he didn't become an unrestricted free agent through the expiration of his contract.
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