Phil Riewer
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Hell of a lot classier than they treated Antoine Winfield Sr that’s for sure
What happened? I must have missed something.
35 years old. Played here 9 years(two nice contracts). Asked him to take pay cut. Cut him. Tried to resign him for less.
Then, more or less, he retired after that.
As I recall, we were willing to pay Winfield around $3M to stay. He decided to sign with Seattle for damn near league minimum. Then they cut him in preseason.
They cut him one hour before free agency started - after the legal tampering window. Winfield's camp maintains that there was no offer for a paycut and that they were expecting business as usual. They pulled him out of his workout at Winter Park to tell him. He was coming off one of his best seasons in his career.
Don't you think that maybe Winfield played hardball and lost. I find it hard to believe that we didn't offer him a chance at a reduced rate.
I wish there would have been some direct quotes from Winfield in your articles. Just an NFL source speaking for Winfield camp.
Not saying it is right. He had a good season and we went to playoffs. Probably thought it was a slap in the face to take a pay cut. And rightfully so.
This. A pay cut is always a slap in the face. But it's also business in the NFL.
No shit. Just like Rudy refused a pay cut. One got a timely release coordinated so he could send out his goodbye letter and have two weeks in a free agent market with almost no other free agents competing and the other got blind sided only after that entire period had expired. Thank you for hammering home my point.
Actually you should thank me for providing a buffer post so you could pretend to have not seen what Mark had to say, with plausible deniability.
Maybe they cut him after they saw him in camp? Maybe they weren't being dicks and saw he had nothing left?
FYI:
2013
Winfield was released by the Minnesota Vikings on March 12, 2013 in a move to clear $7.25 million in salary cap space.
Seattle Seahawks
Winfield signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 17, 2013 to a one-year, $3 million contract. He was assigned number 21 due to starting fullback Michael Robinson having already been assigned 26 in 2010. He was released from the team during final cuts on August 31, 2013.
Seattle cutting him in final cuts kind of proves what the Vikings point.
I don’t care if Winfield had a leg fall off and he was smearing his own feces on the walls of winter park. The point remains that the vikes released Rudy in a much classier way than Winfield and that point holds. I’m embarrassed for you all that are trying to spin this into something else. Have you no shame?
Spin it? They paid him big money for almost 10 years and cut him in March (Not May, June, or July but March).....then the next team cut him too. I think you are the one spinning it.
Bold spin.
I think not...Winfield was 36 at the time.
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