Broncos will allow Griese to pursue a trade

[The_Philster]

In advance of the free agency period, the Denver Broncos have stepped up their scrutiny of possible starting quarterback candidates. Also, the team will soon grant incumbent Brian Griese permission to speak with other franchises about a potential trade.

The Broncos would prefer to trade Griese, their starter for the last four years but a player who has fallen into disfavor within the organization, rather than to release him and get nothing in return. A timetable for granting permission to Griese and agent Ralph Cindrich has not yet been settled.

As has been the case the entire offseason, Cindrich again declined Tuesday to discuss the future of his client...

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[The_Philster]

That the Denver Broncos have granted permission to quarterback Brian Griese and agent Ralph Cindrich to discuss trade possibilities with other NFL teams is a good story. That ESPN.com reported the story first, on Tuesday evening, makes it doubly good, in fact.

It is also, however, a story that realistically might be headed for a dead end.

Even with his subpar performances of the past two seasons, when Griese's touchdown passes barely outnumber his interceptions, there is a market for the Son of Bob. A trade market, however, might be a stretch, both for the team attempting to acquire the quarterback and for the one that wants to rid itself of him.

Few teams are going to surrender much in return for a player they realize is going to be released just after June 1 anyway, when the Broncos can soften the blow to their salary cap, so most potential Griese suitors won't jump on him at this point. And for the Broncos to agree to a trade would mean they would also assume a prohibitive salary cap hit of $9.26 million....

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[qcsabresfan84]

I think that Greise never really got a chance to go in at the beginning of the season and know that he would be the starting quarterback for sure. Even though he doesn't deserve to get booted out of Denver, I think that a new team is exactly what he needs.