az1965 said:
Boldin trade talkes are ridiculous, even more so than the fact that they started to talk about his contract extension just after one season. Let the guy show at least two season the consistent performance worthy of big contract. Also, he was coming of an injury and you need to see if he is the same guy after the injury as he was before.
To be clear, I'm not promoting a trade, I'm saying the "signs point to" a possible trade. I started last year comparing Quan to Portis and pointing out how lucky we were Quan was a good guy not a egomaniac like Portis. Since then we've moved Quan to a new position, drafted a guy to play the position he played, gave him a HUGE contract, and in response, Quan hired portis' agent.
This could have been different, if we had taken a QB or any other position but WR, or even if we had taken Roy Williams, who wouldn't have required us to move Quan to another position, this would have been easier. But let's face it, no agent worth anything is going to ignore what Fitz is being paid and what Quan is when Quan was a better player last year and frankly is a better player THIS year, when he's not even healthy. You don't hire Drew Rosenhaus to have a friendly negotiation, you hire him because you think your current agent isn't getting you what you want.
Then you bring in Green to the equation, he drafted Fitz, he has a longstanding relationship with him, he sold the Cards brass on Fitz over anybody else in the draft. If there comes a situation where the Cards say hey we want Quan at any cost, no problem, give him the money, happily ever after. If instead someone says we can't pay him that much or more we just can't do that at WR, Green will side with Fitz, Graves and company will side with Green, and we'll see what happens.
Again, if given the choice I'd rather have Quan I'm just saying that the first year of this has not gone well and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the end result is Quan playing somewhere else next season.
