Daunte Culpepper traded by Vikings?

Viking Update is reporting that Daunte Culpepper has been traded to an as-yet-undisclosed team:

As with any good info, confirmation is needed. Daunte himself did that for us. At his personal website, daunteculpepper.com, if you hit it, you will get the dish. All you'll see is "Version 2 — Coming Soon."

That says enough. All those No. 84 jerseys your friends and family aren't wearing, add No. 11 to the pile. It shouldn't have been this way. But it is.

As soon as we have specifics, we'll pass it along. But, Version 2 — as it is going to be called — better step up. Pepp got his wish. The Vikings have a trade partner. What he does with it from here is his legacy — for better or worse.

For the record, I'm very disappointed, but not terribly surprised. The new owner seemed like a pretty straight-shooting kind of guy, but you apparently have to listen to what he says very carefully. His new head coach clearly wasn't interested in having Culpepper as the starting QB, and now has his wish. Brad Johnson is not the long-term answer, so I can only hope that the trade is for a quarterback with some pretty good medium-range prospects (that is, not Jon Kitna or Tim Rattay).

Update: Tom Powers looked at it this way:

Apparently, Culpepper was convinced the Vikings wanted him back in 2006. According to Culpepper, Wilf convinced him of that by telling him the Vikings were not trying to move him. And Culpepper, surprisingly naive for somebody who has been in the business for so long, believed him.

As it turns out, Culpepper was being offered around so openly and to so many teams that I thought the Triangle of Authority was going to put him on eBay. Oddly, Wilf isn't even one of the angles on the triangle. He would make a fourth, which technically makes it, say, a Square of Solidarity. [. . .]

In any event, the Vikings' Circle of Trust collapsed when it came to Culpepper, who clearly was furious to find out he nearly was booked as an on-sale item on the Home Shopping Network. So on Wednesday, he asked out of Minnesota.

Does Culpepper deserve to have his contract renegotiated? No. Does he deserve to have his job guaranteed? No. Does he deserve to be lied to? Nobody deserves that.

So, in spite of the Wilf reputation, not much has changed in the Vikings organization. They're still the gang that couldn't shoot straight.