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May 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Cards carrying another unhappy player: DT Darnell Dockett

Well, the Good Ship Seahawk set sail toward the 2009 season this weekend with a three-day minicamp that included their most significant offseason acquisitions.

The Arizona Cardinals are trying to avoid a remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty."

OK. Enough with the bad maritime metaphors, but one of the biggest questions coming out of last season was whether the Cardinals -- a notoriously thrifty organization that treats nickels like manhole covers, i.e. not something to be thrown around -- would pony up the cash to reward the players who powered their run to the Super Bowl. So far the answer is a resounding, "Not really."

Quarerback Kurt Warner had to go visit division rival San Francisco before he re-signed with the Cardinals, receiver Anquan Boldin still doesn't have a new deal and now Mike Sando and John Clayton of ESPN.com are reporting that defensive tackle Darnell Dockett has reiterated a request to be traded.

This is the price of success in the National Football League. Seattle experienced it in 2006 after its Super Bowl run with the departures of receiver Joe Jurevicius, guard Steve Hutchinson and safety Marquan Manuel (remember him). Players who are part of a championship team command a premium in a league where imitation isn't the biggest form of flattery, acquisition is.

Throw in safety Adrian Wilson -- the hard-hitting heart of that defense -- who is in the last year of his contract and linebacker Karlos Dansby, who is in his second year as the Cardinals' franchise player and you've got a lot of people less than content with their contract situations.

[Special thanks to Gollum for grammatical encouragement.]

Take a look at this Associated Press story from the first day of the Cardinals' minicamp on Friday. Dockett and Boldin didn't play because of injuries and Dansby showed up late because of a miscommunication.


FREE AGENTS SIGNED BY CARDINALS		FREE AGENTS LOST BY CARDINALS
Team	Player	Team	Player
	QB Kurt Warner Re-signed by Arizona		RB J.J. Arrington

	S Keith Lewis		CB Eric Green
	CB Bryant McFadden	CUT	RB Edgerrin James
	DE Bertrand Berry Re-signed with Arizona	CUT	CB Rod Hood
	LB Clark Haggans Re-signed with Arizona	CUT	LB Travis LaBoy
	CB Ralph Brown Re-signed by Arizona	$tex-mark-1-cl.gif$	DE Antonio Smith
	TE Leonard Pope Re-signed with Arizona		LB Monty Beisel
	NT Gabe Watson Re-signed with Arizona		FB Terrelle Smith
	OL Oliver Ross Re-signed with Arizona	CUT	LS Nathan Hodel
	G Elton Brown Re-signed with Arizona
	TE Anthony Becht
	LS Mike Leach
	RB Jason Wright
	FB Dan Kreider
	QB Brian St. Pierre Re-signed with Arizona
	P Ben Graham Re-signed with Arizona
Out of football in 2008	TE Dominique Byrd

2009 DRAFT PICKS
First-round (No. 31)	RB Chris Wells Ohio State	Second-round (No. 63)	DE Cody Brown Connecticut
Third-round (No. 95)	S Rashad Johnson Alabama	Fourth-round (No. 131)	CB Greg Toler St. Pauls
Fifth-round (No. 167)	OT Herman Johnson LSU	Sixth-round (No. 204	DE Will Davis Illinois
Seventh-round (No. 240)	LaRod Stephens-Howling Pittsburgh	Seventh-round (No. 254)	OG Trevor Canfield Cincinnati