Report: Vikes want Cutler

[A.E]

While Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler continues his media gripe over reports that he was nearly dealt for Matt Cassel, an interesting 'blurb' in today's Denver Post points to the Vikings as a team looking to lure him away from mile high.

The Post cited league sources in its report that Minnesota and Detroit contacted the Broncos concerning Cutler's availability. -AE

 

[Macken]

i'd be alot happier then the sage deal if this happens

 

[Digital_Viking]

i would be happier with cutler rather than sage as well, but i dont think its going to happen. The Vikes arent gonna go after cutler after just bringing in sage... Detroit on the other hand might, but i dont see it happening.

Cutler stays with Denver.

 

[A.E]

i would be happier with cutler rather than sage as well, but i dont think its going to happen. The Vikes arent gonna go after cutler after just bringing in sage... Detroit on the other hand might, but i dont see it happening.

Cutler stays with Denver.

That's what I first thought too, especially being how bad the Vikings have apparently wanted Sage over the last 2 years.

But things change and what changed is suddenly the Broncos are listening to trade offers for Jay Cutler. Now If your the Vikings and you haven't had a decent season from a QB since Culpepper's glory days....your going to call Denver & do what you can to get Cutler. Whether you have Sage or not, Cutler is a much better field general.

Either way, Sage would be a much better back-up QB to have behind Cutler, as opposed to Gus Frerotte.

 

[FSUViking]

REPORT: VIKINGS INTERESTED IN CUTLER
Posted by Mike Florio on March 2, 2009, 1:46 p.m. EST
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/03/02/...sted-in-cutler/

With Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler officially declaring that coach Josh McDaniels is no longer his “BFF,” the question becomes whether the Broncos will resume efforts to trade the disgruntled three-year pass-thrower.

Buried in an item from Mike Klis of the Denver Post is a disclosure that the Lions and the Vikings are interested in Cutler. (Presumably, the Buccaneers are still willing to talk turkey, too.)

The Lions already had been disclosed as a potentially interested team, but the Vikings are the eyebrow-raiser.

Though the Vikings already have traded for, and extended the contract of, quarterback Sage Rosenfels, a Cutler-Sage depth chart would look a lot better to Minnesota fans that the forgettable Tarvaris-Frerotte pairing of 2008 — not to mention the nightmarish Jackson-Holcomb-Bollinger revolving door from the prior season.

The question is whether the Vikes would pull the trigger, and what it would take to get Cutler from Denver. After sending a first-round pick and two third-round picks to Kansas City for defensive end Jared Allen last year, trading away another first-round pick would undermine the team’s ability to continue its effort to develop a nucleus of solid young players.

Then again, a quarterback can play for a long time, and franchise quarterbacks like Cutler rarely are available.

Meanwhile, Rosenfels’ three-year, $9 million deal doesn’t scream out “starter money,” which would give the Vikings the ability to pay Cutler.

And since he’s under contract for at least two more years (we’re assuming that 2011 is voidable), the Vikes would have time to get a long-term deal done, and in the interim would absorb manageable base salaries of $1.03 million and $1.42 million. (That said, there could be bonuses and escalators that drive up those numbers considerably.)

The question is whether the Vikings think they need both a franchise quarterback and a franchise running back. Based on the acquisition of Rosenfels, the answer apparently is, “No.” But with the career of coach Brad Childress hinging on what the team does in 2009, it makes sense to at least explore what it would take to pry Cutler away from the Broncos, especially at a time when Cutler is clamoring to get out.

While Rosenfels could take the Vikings to places they haven’t been in a long, long time, the chances of Cutler getting it done are considerably greater.