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Just now, tukafan21 said:

I don't understand why this whole thing is so tough to understand, it's very simple.

Neither Thielen nor his wife wanted out of Carolina, it's why he signed the new deal to come back here this year.

The Vikings had WR injury issues in camp, when that happened they then needed a WR and reached out to us to try and get Thielen.  Once that happened, it changed everything, because it was an opportunity for a player who lived his whole life in that state, to go home for his final NFL season.

Once that was on the table, yea, of course he's going to then "request a trade", but what people don't seem to grasp, is that Thielen didn't just come out and ask Morgan to trade him.  It ONLY happened because the Vikings became WR desperate in the weeks leading into the season, but I'm a million percent convinced if they didn't, we'd never have considered trading him and he wouldn't have asked for one.

It was a very unique situation that arose because of another team's needs, not Thielen's doing.

This was my reading on the situation, too.

Thielen was happy to be here. But, if he can partially help his current team (trade value), and return home for his last hurrah, why not?

I did not feel like he forced his way out of here last minute...

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I don’t know how we can ‘know’ either way, we can only speculate what was going on in the family. 

I think it is clear it wasn’t his choice to leave that team and have to go elsewhere. Also that the family would be excited to go Home. 

I guess I just don’t give enough of a poo to make a big deal of it, like to impugn the FO over it or whatever other repercussions it has. I don’t really have a problem with the cap savings or the trade compensation. 

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5 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

She could have moved without him and kept the money.  She seems like a handful 

Oh absolutely. She’s insane. 

It must vibrate