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This is from the Star Tribune in Minn. Man, BB doesn't mess around!!
The Vikings were awarded former New England TE Garrett Mills today on waivers, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Mills was a fourth-round draft pick last year but was placed on injured reserve midway through the season. The Patriots wanted to put him on their practice squad so badly that coach Bill Belichick called Vikings coach Brad Childress this morning about him. As Childress recounted during an appearance on WCCO-AM’s Softballs with Sid, Belichick apparently was suggesting he would claim a Vikings castoff if the Vikings did not back off of his player.
According to Childress, Belichick said: “Is there any way that you don’t take our guy and we don’t take your guy?”
Childress said he replied: “Well, I’m really interested in your guy. We’ll have to let our guy slide.”
“He didn’t really care for that,” Childress said. “He was trying to leverage. You always find out who is honest and straightforward.”
UPDATE: Belichick wasn’t lying. The Patriots were the team that claimed LB David Herron, whom the Vikings liked as a special teams guy and hoped to stash on the practice squad.