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Originally Posted by Mattyk
I'll probably regret asking, but a SB win, quite possibly two, is not enough of a payoff to justify the trade, or at the least enough to not call it stupid?
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It's easy to connect one event with the other, but they have pretty much nothing to do with each other.
New York could have had any of these quarterbacks with the picks they put in the Eli Manning deal:
Ben Roethlisberger
Philip Rivers
Aaron Rodgers
Where does Manning rank on that list? Third? Fourth?
They weren't supposed to know that they were trading so much draft value for a top QB in a year where there were plenty of them available, but if you're going to ask me to credit them for pulling the trigger when history has proven that move (at best) unnecessary, well, I think that it's still pretty clear and obvious that San Diego fleeced them.