Something Smells

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I seem to recall that during the 2000 offseason the reasoning we heard from Viking management for losing players such as Christy, McDaniel, George, etc. and not signing any impact free agents from other teams was that the Vikes had to save their money and cap space to re-sign players such as Rudd, Smith, and Williams who were scheduled to be UFA's during the 2001 offseason.

Here it is 2001 and even though Smith retired, freeing up cap space and mucho signing bonus money, not only didn't we re-sign Rudd or Williams, but didn't even re-sign role players such as Hatchette, Walsh, Lacina, etc., .............AND then, in addition, cut Steussie and Randle.

-- Mark (Karch222@aol.com), April 25, 2001

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What smells is that everytime the Vikings release a veteran, we end up paying millions of dollars for them against the cap and get nothing in return. In the end we may save a million here or a million there by letting them go before a bonus is due, but it's really just a big joke because what we take in hits against the cap is far more damaging to the team. It's just Red being a cheap ass fool, and Denny running out guys who have hurt his fragile ego. I'm really shocked that the media has not picked up on this at all.

IZ

-- Iz (izmorrow@yahoo.com), April 25, 2001.


Yea! What happened to all this money that we were going to spend on keeping Robert a Viking?

-- Ralph (RFELIX7550@aol.com), April 29, 2001.

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