Draft Day Trade Scenario

[joecrisp]

Originally Posted by Dave Butz Baby!

Here's an off the wall idea. I came up with a truly NBA-On-The-Eve-Of-The-Trading-Deadline style "blockbuster" trade that would net us both Taylor and Winslow. Impossible? No way! Far fetched? Hell yeah! But it's really sly, like a fox!

Here's where we stand right now...

1. San Diego. Will probably take a QB, though may not want to pick #1. Schotty is said to really be enamoured with Big Ben.
2. Raiders. Probably standing pat. Either Roy Williams or Gallery. If Gallery is picked here, this whole thing goes down the tubes. Al Davis makes me nervous.
3. Cards. Fitzgerald is Denny Green's boy.
4. Giants LOVE Eli Manning and want to trade up.
5. Skins, Baby!
6. Lions. See whole Taylor/Winslow/Belichick Drama.
7. Browns. The final and most interesting piece of the puzzle. They are rumored to really want Gallery and want to trade up to get him.

So here it goes:

We start this out with a first, fifth, and sixth round pick in 2004. Suprisingly, we still have all our picks in 2005 (wow!).

1. Trade our #5 overall and sixth rounder to the Browns for their #7 and third round pick. Browns will get their man at #5, no sweat.

2. Trade the #7 overall, our third rounder from the Browns, and Rod Gardner to the Bolts for the #1 overall. Puts us in the driver's seat and removes SD from "The Ryan Leaf Spolight". If we think a third is the best we can get for RG, then a plenty high draft pick and essentially two thirds should be plenty of incentive for the Bolts. Gardner's a Mart guy. Marty may overinflate his worth. At number seven, the Chargers can easily get Roethlisberger.

3. Now the fun part. Giants want Manning. We have the number one. What to do, what to do.. BAM! Trade the number one overall, plus maybe a player (Betts? they need RB help) and next years forth for the Giants first and second this year. I think even the Vikings could pull off drafting Manning at this point.

4. And the coup de gras... The Lions want picks, so let's give them picks! They need defense, so let's give them defense! Trade our number one next year, second rounder from the Giants, our fifth round pick this year, and Mr. Trotter for the number 6 overall pick this year. No number one next year, but it seemed like Gibbs almost never had first round picks in the 80's.

So now the draft order is...

1. Giants (Manning)
2. Raiders (Roy Williams)
3. Cards (Fitzgerald)
4. Redskins (Taylor)
5. Browns (Gallery)
6. Redskins (Winslow)
7. Chargers (Roethlisberger)

Pick wise, after the first round, we would have no picks left this year and would be down our number one next year. But we'd get our Hurricanes and could go play golf the rest of the weekend.

See? Easy as pie! I should be a GM!

Actually, the only reason I know this would work is that an anagram of "Rodney Gardner" is "Darn Yer Red Dong". If that doesn't make everything crystal clear, nothing will!



Whoops! My bad! That was STUPID like a fox, not sly!

That's awesome, DBB! I laughed my ass off when I read that Rod Gardner anagram part...

The amazing thing about your post is it might actually work, and the resulting picks make sense. Sly like a fox!

Now can someone tell me where I left my Blue Star Ointment?

[sportscurmudgeon]

Dave Butz Baby:

Were you in Florida for the owners' meeting?

The reason I ask is that there was a rumor flying around down there that had the Skins, Chargers and Browns in a draft pick and player swap that was only a little less complicated than a Middle East Peace Plan. You managed to toss the Giants into the mix and make it as simple to untangle as a plate of spaghetti.

Interestingly, the key name in the "Florida rumor" was Gallery because about 10 teams supposedly want him desperately.

[memphisskin]

Wow, I like any deal that nets us K2 and Taylor, and we all know that Snyder must keep $8 mil in bonus money in the candy dish in his jar because he is the only guy I've never seen him sweat paying anyone anything. $17 mil for Portis, $10 mil each for LaVar and Samuels, I mean this guy sweats money. But I don't know how in the world they'd be able to take on two more big contracts. We'd have a bunch of millionaires and James Thrash.

[SkinsRock]

Dave Butz Baby: Looks good to me!!
One thing though, we traded our 2005 5th rounder for Thrash, so we'd be short a 1st and 5th next year, but I wouldn't be worried about it....

Is it draft day yet???

[Dave Butz Baby!]

Originally Posted by joecrisp

That's awesome, DBB! I laughed my ass off when I read that Rod Gardner anagram part...

The amazing thing about your post is it might actually work, and the resulting picks make sense. Sly like a fox!

Now can someone tell me where I left my Blue Star Ointment?

I knew the anagram was the dead give away! Makes it more clear than Cindy Crawford's complexion!

Can you tell I just re-read the Da Vinci Code?

Here's a couple more anagrams for you...

JOE JACKSON GIBBS
E.O., J.K.C.
Job, Gain SB's!

(translation: Executive Order, Jack Kent Cooke. Job, Gain S.B.'s! Seems accurate enough.)

CLINTON EARL PORTIS
All-Pro, net coin stir.

(Yepper. Just the way it happened.)

STEVE SPURRIER
Vert. press, I rue!

(Yes, he sure did. We all did.)


Blue Star Ointment? Medicine cabinet, top shelf, next to the corn/callous remover. Right behind that empty bottle of Visine.

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Dave Butz Baby:

Were you in Florida for the owners' meeting?

The reason I ask is that there was a rumor flying around down there that had the Skins, Chargers and Browns in a draft pick and player swap that was only a little less complicated than a Middle East Peace Plan. You managed to toss the Giants into the mix and make it as simple to untangle as a plate of spaghetti.

Interestingly, the key name in the "Florida rumor" was Gallery because about 10 teams supposedly want him desperately.

No, not Florida. I was holed up in Northern Virginia with apparently nothing better to do. Though if the Skins were to call, I'd be happy to offer my services!

I picked on Gallery because I keep reading little blurbs from the local papers for these teams and his name is coming up all over the place. He seems to be highly regarded as the only "sure fire" (as in, not needing to "work up to his potential") pick in the draft. I have no doubt than in almost any other year, we'd be champing at the bit to get Gallery too. That's why Al Davis makes me nervous.

The more I played around with the scenarios, the more it all just kind of fell into place.

Middle East peace? Wow. That would have to be one hell of a trade! I'd make it a heartbeat, though.

[JWsleep]

DBB for GM!!!