Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson would have asked for an exchange

After the news that Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinators, Mike McCoy, hit Friday, a major shock wave occurred Monday.

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, cornerback Patrick Peterson has requested an exchange and wants to leave Arizona.

The Cardinals head coach, Steve Wilks, declined the idea that the team would consider trading Peterson.

"We do not negotiate Patrick," he said Monday. "That's out of the question."

Here are the quick reactions from Sports Resort 98.7 FM Arizona shows on the air and our staff.

John Gambadoro, co-host of Burns & Gambo

"I spoke with former teammates Patrick Peterson and what I can tell you is that one player said that he no longer wanted to participate in a reconstruction operation. . He wants to win a championship before retirement or have the opportunity to win.

And then I asked him about the coaching staff: "It's Wilks? Is it Holcomb?

He likes coaches. Welcomes Wilks. He is not displeased with anything except victory. "

Dave Burns, co-host of Burns & Gambo

"It can always get worse. I think it can always get worse. I say that in doing this he has already become ugly.

He has already taken that to this level.

For the love of God, his cousin Bryant McFadden has already tweeted where [Peterson] wants to go there.

You can not put toothpaste back into the tube. It is there. It's already ugly. It's already a mess. This is already undermining everything that Cardinals and Steve Wilks are trying to accomplish right now.

Patrick Peterson created a giant mess.

Dan Bickley, co-host of Bickley and Marotta and chronicler

Now you're wondering, "What are you doing if you are the Cardinals of Arizona? "

Go to Patrick Peterson and say, "Patrick, can we, please, do counseling together? Can we solve this problem? Would you like us to send the head coach back as well? "

I do not know if you can do that.

Vince Marotta, co-host of Bickley and Marotta

In a way, I imagined that Mike McCoy's dismissal as the Cardinals Offensive Coordinator would be the first step in the healing process for the rest of the disastrous season.

I was wrong.

The report released Monday by Adam Schefter indicates that Patrick Peterson, of all players, wants to be traded is a real bomb. Peterson was one of the most consistent football players during his stay in Arizona, in addition to being an accomplished professional. If the report is true – and we have no reason to believe it is the sign of something that has long been absent from this organization: dysfunction.

At this point, it is not fair to attribute everything to the new coaching staff. After all, Peterson may have been unhappy in the last two mediocre seasons and made nothing public. But the fact that this has come to light now, in the middle of a game start ranging from 1 to 6, suggests that Peterson is at the end of the wheel and that this might be impossible to solve – especially with just a little more from one week before the deadline of exchanges. .

It's disappointing, to say the least.

Luke Lapinski, co-host of The summary and journalist

There are too many layers to this and none of them are good. Even if the Cardinals do not really exchange Patrick Peterson, the biggest problem is simply that he may want to go out. For me, that poses a bigger problem.

As atrocious as this season has been, I have been led to believe that the defense is recoverable. That the constant stream of three-and-some by the offensive has left defense on the ground far too long (35:06 per game, by far the worst of the NFL) to really evaluate what's going on. they can do. Peterson and Chandler Jones are still in the spotlight, with Budda Baker and Markus Golden in the lead.

For me, the defense is the best chance that Arizona may have to win some more wins in 2018. And that's the best half on which the Cards can rely to revive a (better, hopefully) campaign 2019. But it is apparently the leader of this defense who asks. This seems to indicate that this team has deeper problems than Mike McCoy's.

If it's me, I do everything I can to save that and I do not move it if possible. You never get the same value in transactions like this. Negotiating perhaps the best cornerback in the league is the kind of thing you only do to reach the top of the project and get your potential franchise QB … but Arizona already has that in Josh Rosen. So now, are you treating him for choices? And then, hoping that one of these choices becomes a half as good as Patrick Peterson? That's why teams become quickly useless.

That said, if the situation is too advanced and the Cards come to the point where they feel they just have to exchange their cards, I talk to a team like Oakland. After their agreement with Dallas today, the Raiders suddenly have three first-round picks in 2019. And you never know what you could possibly get out of Jon Gruden. See: Mack, Khalil.

Kevin Zimmerman, ArizonaSports.com Editor and Reporter

After Adam Schefter announced Peterson's misfortune, Cardinals coach Steve Wilks admitted he had not heard his corner star express his displeasure. He also said he observed a player focused on practices and games. All this may be true, and it's a good sign that Peterson wants it to be as discreet as possible.

Facing the front, Peterson repeated the words of his head coach. Whether Wilks or Al Holcomb's defense coordinator, Peterson's commitment to everyday life did not displease him.

Still, he would like to go out because, at the very least, he can say that this team does not have the talent, it should go into full reconstruction mode. Although Wilks and the front office are trying to tell the rest of the league that they will not deal with Peterson, general manager Steve Keim has no choice. Is he refusing to move and follow a path that looks a lot like Jimmy Butler and the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA?

Peterson does not seem to be doing the same thing if it's the base, but if Keim keeps the cornerback, he's committed to trying to win … in this lost season. At the present time, one could imagine that the Cardinals are doing the smart thing. They are trying to get another team of all their chips into the table before the October 30 trading deadline. And if that happens, Arizona could possibly force Peterson to recover a collection of assets in the process.

Kellan Olson, ArizonaSports.com Editor and Reporter

I am fascinated by the reactions to Peterson's desire because it says a lot about how you feel about the player's obligations to an organization.

Peterson competed in seven consecutive games in the Pro Bowl and was a player in the first All-Pro team for three seasons. He was the centerpiece of training alongside Larry Fitzgerald in the team's best-ever winning streak in Arizona. Peterson nearly equaled Fitzgerald as the representative of the franchise, the greatest compliment possible.

He is 28, the age where the premium for athletes is never higher. That's all for Peterson right now, especially if he wants to contribute at the highest level to a winning team.

So when the Cardinals are the worst football team and they obviously miss a year or two to play in the playoffs, I'm very much in favor of Peterson asking for an exchange.

He remains 2.5 seasons in his contract as a leading corner, which means that the return could also be exceptional for the Cardinals. Given the current schedule of the team and the number of holes in his team, is not this the type of move he should consider anyway?

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