As Mike Jurecki of XTRA in Phoenix (via Darren Urban of the Cards’ official web site) pointed out on Monday, Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin has instructed agent Drew Rosenhaus to tell the team that Boldin will accept no new contract, and that Boldin wants to be traded.
A league source tells us that Rosenhaus delivered the message to the team on Monday, in a meeting that also featured a renewed request that the team cut running back Edgerrin James.
Boldin is signed through 2010, at salaries of $2.75 million and $3 million over the next two seasons. He surely wants something closer in line to Larry Fitzgerald’s four-year, $40 million deal, and the Cardinals aren’t likely to give it to him.
At some point, it will make sense for the Cardinals to get what they can for Boldin, especially since the Lions reeled in a one, a three, and a five for receiver Roy Williams.
Our guess is that several teams will begin making trade offers to the Cardinals, and that the process might include some hypothetical discussions between Rosenhaus and representatives from other teams about the kind of hypothetical contract that Boldin hypothetically would want, if he were to be dealt to a new team, hypothetically.
How about this one? If Kurt Warner retires or signs with another team, Boldin plus a second-round pick for Arizona resident Donovan McNabb.
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