Howie Roseman recounted the making of the Sam Bradford trade during an interview Tuesday with 97.5 the Fanatic.

As he told MMQB, Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman reached out last Wednesday just as Roseman had started to play catch with his kids outside of his house.

"The 5-year old actually threw [the ball] at me. He threw it at me like, 'Let's go!'," said Roseman.

In need of some family time, talks resumed on Thursday. Given that the Philadelphia Eagles were just eight days out from their regular-season opener against the Cleveland Browns, and the Vikings were inquiring about their starting quarterback, Roseman decided to cut to the chase.

"For us to do that, it would change the NFC North, it would change the NFC East, it would change the NFC as a whole. It puts our coaches in a really tough position. That's going to be a situation that's gotta be a no-brainer for our team. And I said, so what does that mean? I said, well, the Carson Palmer trade was like that and it was a one and a two," Roseman recalled. "And [Spielman] was just taken aback. And he said, 'Well, that doesn't make any sense.' And I said, 'No, it does.'"

The trade Roseman referenced came in October 2011 when the Cincinnati Bengals sent an unhappy and "retired" Palmer to the Oakland Raiders for a first-round pick in 2012 and a second-round pick in 2013.

The Eagles ended up getting close to that in return, as Minnesota gave up a first-rounder in the upcoming draft and a conditional pick in 2018 that can become as high as a second-rounder, depending on how the Vikings perform with Bradford.

Roseman said he sat and watched the Eagles' preseason finale against the New York Jets Thursday night thinking a deal would not get done. But on Friday, the Vikings had conceded to a first-round pick and the teams ironed out the details from there.

The second part of this equation was feeling good about putting the ball in Carson Wentz's hands so early. The coaching and personnel staff provided Roseman with some peace of mind during a team meeting prior to pulling the trigger.

"The insight that was huge for us in making this decision was ... the confidence throughout the offensive staff and really the defensive staff and the personnel staff in where Carson was. And even though he hadn't played the last three weeks, just mentally where he was, physically how he was coming from seeing him from when he first stepped on the field at rookie camp," said Roseman. "And obviously the confidence they have in Chase [Daniel], the reason we brought him here -- to be a security blanket and to help us if he's going to go play."

You can listen to the entire interview here.