Here is a small piece of what actually happened on Sept 4 deadline with the Vikings. Everyone kept saying that San Diego should have accepted what offered to them but there is another side of the equation as well: VJ's Asking price. His agents blamed everything to AJ for failing to make a trade, but reading the article below tells me different....
Well, remember the Sept. 4 deadline for Jackson to reach a contract agreement with another team and have a trade consummated so he could serve his DUI suspension and Roster Exempt time concurrently? That was the first time Jackson’s agents said the Chargers stymied a trade.
Turns out, the chance the Chargers had to make a deal was actually no chance at all.
A source said Thursday that the Chargers did not even get the call from the Minnesota Vikings informing them the Vikings had reached a deal with Jackson until 3:01 p.m. PT. A deadline for a deal to be done required Jackson’s signed tender and a trade agreement to be received by the league by 3 p.m.
Whether the Chargers and Vikings could have worked something out that day is not known – though perhaps the Vikings would have been willing to offer slightly more than they were 2½ weeks later if they could have had Jackson for an extra game.
Turns out, the chance the Chargers had to make a deal was actually no chance at all.
A source said Thursday that the Chargers did not even get the call from the Minnesota Vikings informing them the Vikings had reached a deal with Jackson until 3:01 p.m. PT. A deadline for a deal to be done required Jackson’s signed tender and a trade agreement to be received by the league by 3 p.m.
Whether the Chargers and Vikings could have worked something out that day is not known – though perhaps the Vikings would have been willing to offer slightly more than they were 2½ weeks later if they could have had Jackson for an extra game.
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