Darnell Dockett Has Asked the Arizona Cardinals to Trade Him
by Hawkwind on May 5, 2009 6:34 AM MDT
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PrintHat tip to hevchv for breaking the story here at ROTB.
Darnell Dockett shares an agent with Anquan Boldin and now he also shares the 
snake in the grass agent, has asked the Cardinals for a trade, which of course they promptly denied. The team has known about Dockett's displeasure for over a year but they've also made it clear that he's not even in line yet for an extension. His current deal runs through the 2011 season and he agreed to that deal in 2006, but the extension started in the 2007 season.
Dockett enjoyed a breakout season in 2007, his first year under his new $22 million dollar extension, recording career highs in tackles and sacks. He was also named as a Pro Bowl alternate and despite receiving about seven million dollars in bonuses at the beginning of his contract, he felt he'd outperformed his contract less than a year after the ink was dry. Dockett's numbers came much closer to his career averages in 2008, but that hasn't stopped the soon to be 28 year old defensive lineman from requesting a trade. He still has three years left on his deal and absolutely zero leverage so I wouldn't expect the Cardinals to pay him any attention.
| Year | Tackles | Sacks |
| 2008 | 49 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 58 | 9.0 |
| 2006 | 50 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | 3.5 |
No one is expecting the Cardinals to listen to Dockett right now considering all of their other contract issues, but should they? Can Dockett cause enough of a problem in the locker room to force a trade? Is he really worth a new contract or does 2007 look like an aberration?
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This has gotta be Drew RosenSucks doing.
It’s just funny how Q demands a trade and it just so happens his agent is RosenSuck and then Dockett wants a trade and his agent is RosenSuck. I understand that player like RosenSuck but I hate this guy.
I certainly hope so b/c I second the notion
Get a grip DD, you’ve had one good season. Maybe they should have ripped up your deal after the 2007 season, paid you like a Pro Bowler and demanded some of the money back after you coasted through the ’08 season.
Seriously, one year after the extension kicks in he wants a new deal? Who is this guy Terrell Owens?
I don't think this id DD
this is his agent. If you look around the league you always hear of Rosenhaus players demanding trades because of a bad contract. Well it seems to me it is just a way for Rosenhaus to cover his ass as he got those contracts for his players and then a year or two later they out perform it. It is the player’s fault for signing an extension but it is the agents fault for recommending it. This is just a classic case of a player that screwed himself over and hoping that he can fix it. Hopefully the Cards don’t budge and make him play the contract he signed, like they have been doing with Boldin.
well it's true that this came from the Snake
but he didn’t act alone in this. He had to run this by DD and get him to ok it before he took it to the organization. DD’s obviously not happy as he’s said as much every time someone stuck a microphone in his face. Sure maybe some of this is DD acting like Drew’s puppet, but everyone who signs up with that Snake knows what they’re getting into bed with.
Right now
I just hope that Dockett doesn’t take even more plays off because of this, this season. I know Q won’t as he just isn’t that type of player but Dockett did this all the time last year. Make me wonder if he’ll do it more….
valid concern
If you ask me though, DD’s margin for error is much smaller than Boldin’s. Dockett’s not a perennial pro bowler or obvious difference maker. I’d love to hear what an opposing GM or coach had to say about him.
I imagine it’s something like…..we just don’t know what to make of him. The first time we played him we doubled him and chipped him with a running back but nothing worked, he simply owned us all day long. That’s guy was unblockable for four quarters, but the second time we played him our backup OT who’s really struggled at times this season manhandled him the entire game. I forgot sometimes that Dockett was even in the game.
Dockett has even less leverage than Q
He’s not goin anywhere. He would be foolish to take plays off when a ring is in reach.
I agree that D^2's demands are laughable
But I don’t at all agree that this guy isn’t a difference maker that takes downs off. I would say the very opposite about him, he’s the hardest working guy on the d-line! I always give this guy an A for effort out on the field, just watch. I also think that the Cards pass-rush would be non-existant without Darnell. Just look next time how quick he is off the snap and powerful at the same time!
Check his penalties too.
When he is not taking plays off, he is jumping the snap and most of the time he is getting called for the offsides or encroachment. He is extremely talented. If he played 80% of the time, he would exceed ‘07s numbers easily. One guy can not stop him, so when he is invisible, it is because he effort just isn’t there.
In case anyone hasn't realized it,
this is what happens when a team gets to the Super Bowl. Win or lose, the players get the spotlight, and it turns into one huge clusterf*ck. Welcome to “big boy” football, folks.
The Cards hold all the cards
Whiz knows this is part of the superbowl hangover and is handling it superbly. Q and DD have no leverage therefore all this talk is pointless. They will be with the team next year unless some team offers something rediculous.
FUK IT
COMO CHINGAN CABRONES….FUK LETS JUST PLAY BALL…..
AZTECA SUN GOD
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