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Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson is signed through the 2020 season. The team has begun contract talks with some players who will be free agents after the season.
Have talks begun with Peterson?
“No, no talks as of yet,” he told reporters on Thursday after he was asked. “We’ll have to wait and see what the future holds.”
There has been some question about the future of Peterson on the team, as he requested a trade last season, had a conflict with the front office in the offseason and was suspended for six games to start this season.
Is he looking for contract talks?
“I’m always up for a contract negotiation but no talks have happened just yet,” he said. “Just looking forward to finishing the season off strong.”
He doesn’t have any sort of deadline either as to when things need to happen by with a new deal.
“At the end of the day, all I can do is control what I can control,” he said. “When that time presents itself, I will be ready, but at the end of the day, I have to make sure that I’m playing the best football I can so those talks can happen and I can get what I deserve.”
Peterson has both said he wants to be a Cardinal for life and that he is under contract through next season and doesn’t know what the future holds.
Both can be true.
Now, it is important to not make something out of nothing with this story.
Yes, the Cardinals have begun contract extension negotiations with some players, as AZCentrals Sports’ Bob McManaman reported. However, those negotiations are with players whose contracts expire after this season and will become free agents now.
Peterson is still under contract for another season. If contract talks will happen, they would not likely begin until the offseason. His last contract extension was announced at the beginning of training camp. There is no urgency now to get a deal done when they have all offseason and all next season to get a deal done.
The lack of contract talks does not signal anything yet. If there are no reports of contract negotiations by the end of the offseason, this then becomes a story.
Until then, there isn’t much to see.
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