The Cowboys can get Anquan Boldin. Now.

[Stash]

Cap implications aside, Barber is the best back to consider trading in this scenario.

Agreed.

Not that this Dallas scenario has any merit, but if it did, I think Barber would be the best trade option.

 

[Shake_Tiller]

For some folks, I think, the grass is always greener. Boldin is a very good player, but he isn't Jerry Rice, he isn't Fitzgerald. Jones is a work in progress. We'll see. But trading away or releasing young talent is a quick ticket to oblivion. The argument can be made of any young player: What's he done? Oh, he's only had four games, he's only had one season... people will even say, he's only done it for a couple of years. By that reckoning, it would always make sense to trade youth for age. Age will have done more. Yet most of us know that isn't sensible. In fact, it's usually one of the surest signs of a disastrous franchise.

I'm not sure I buy the idea that a WR is, on the face, more valuable than a running back. Teams have won with great wide receivers... probably more often than they have won with great running backs. But so much has to do with the nature of the team and of the player. Emmitt Smith surely had no less value than Michael Irvin. Tony Dorsett was more valuable than Tony Hill. Duane Thomas was more important to the Cowboys, one shining season, than was any WR on the team. In fact, Dallas has never won a Super Bowl without a great running back -- excepting Thomas, who might have had more talent than any back not named Jim Brown, Dallas hasn't won a Super Bowl without a Hall of Fame running back.

 

[MC KAos]

i wouldnt trade felix for anquan because there isnt a need for a big possesion wide receiver with a huge contract, we already have that in williams and i dont think it would make any sense to trade our only speed back for something we already have.

but i dont see why everyone is so upset about the suggestion though, from a talent stand point. Felix showed a lot of promise, but he has never had a big role since maybe high school, and he wasnt able to stay on the field very long. i would trade him in a heartbeat for a proven player in one of our needs. like ed reed for example. i would do it in a heartbeat if we had the need, but we dont, therefore its a stupid suggestion

 

[TwentyOne]

Looool.

Felix for Boldin ? Must be a joke. Give me half the Cardinals team and i still won't trade Felix.

 

[Ren]

By Cedric Golden | Thursday, April 16, 2009, 12:20 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont...9/04/16/the_cowboys_can_get_anquan_bol_1.html

The Arizona Cardinals have made it clear they will entertain trade offers for WR Anquan Boldin, who is looking to leave because he knows there is no way he can get the mega-deal Larry Fitzgerald signed in Arizona.

So here’s what should happen. The Cardinals, who are ready to part ways with aging tailback Edgerrin James, should send Boldin to Dallas for running back Felix Jones. The Cards would get a huge upgrade at RB while the Cowboys would give Tony Romo and wideout Roy Williams a needed boost in the passing game.

And if Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt would like a cherry on top of the deal, the Cowobys can throw in wideout Patrick Crayton. The deal makes sense for both teams. Get the bean counters together. If Jerry Jones is as smart as he would have us believe, then he needs to pull the trigger and make this thing happen.

how about NO!

 

[lqmac1]

By Cedric Golden | Thursday, April 16, 2009, 12:20 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont...9/04/16/the_cowboys_can_get_anquan_bol_1.html

The Arizona Cardinals have made it clear they will entertain trade offers for WR Anquan Boldin, who is looking to leave because he knows there is no way he can get the mega-deal Larry Fitzgerald signed in Arizona.

So here’s what should happen. The Cardinals, who are ready to part ways with aging tailback Edgerrin James, should send Boldin to Dallas for running back Felix Jones. The Cards would get a huge upgrade at RB while the Cowboys would give Tony Romo and wideout Roy Williams a needed boost in the passing game.

And if Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt would like a cherry on top of the deal, the Cowobys can throw in wideout Patrick Crayton. The deal makes sense for both teams. Get the bean counters together. If Jerry Jones is as smart as he would have us believe, then he needs to pull the trigger and make this thing happen.

HELLLLLLLL NO

i'd rather have felix over boldin anyday twice on sunday **** out of here with that bullcrap.

 

[Big Country]

Where in the hell do these people come from?

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1830

 

[Sandyf]

Trading Felix Jones for A. Boldin would be the most stupid move ever made in the NFL. While we are at it, why not trade Romo for Travius Jackson.

Arizona would jump with joy over that move and the rest of the NFC East teams would come help Felix pack.

My God!!!!

 

[theogt]

Trading Felix Jones for A. Boldin would be the most stupid move ever made in the NFL. While we are at it, why not trade Romo for Travius Jackson.

Arizona would jump with joy over that move and the rest of the NFC East teams would come help Felix pack.

My God!!!!

I think this analogy is probably "the most stupid ever made" on this board.

 

[AKATheRake]

Cap implications aside, Barber is the best back to consider trading in this scenario.

I was thinking the same thing. But Barber isn't an old dog either. Think he's 25-26 and he is our most proven back. Teams do fear and account for him, not Choice as of yet....

I'm good with Choice, Crayton and a 3rd or swapping Barber there. Whisenhunt would definitely get an endorsement from Haley about Barber and Crayton.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I was actually laughing because I can't imagine AZ taking that deal. I love Felix as much as anybody, but this would basically be him for Boldin, and they'd never do that.

The Crayton throw-in is what really cracked me up. He's a dime-a-dozen receiver with virtually no value in a deal like this IMO.

I'm glad to see so many people believe in Felix, though.

 

[BigBoy63]

Why not send barber for boldin.

 

[CF74]

I don't even want that guy on our team and then give up a rb? Pass...

 

[theogt]

I was actually laughing because I can't imagine AZ taking that deal. I love Felix as much as anybody, but this would basically be him for Boldin, and they'd never do that.

The Crayton throw-in is what really cracked me up. He's a dime-a-dozen receiver with virtually no value in a deal like this IMO.

I'm glad to see so many people believe in Felix, though.

There's believing in him, and then there's absolute stupidity. One player is a top 5 (or at least a top 10) receiver in the league and the other is a role player that, while loaded with potential, hasn't done squat in the league.

Yet, there are plenty up idiots here that would trade Romo for Cutler straight up, so I'm not sure why I'm surprised.

 

[PBJTime]

Well Austin is worth a #2 if anyone wants to sign him. Or did anyway. He's worth what someone will give for him.

And I wasn't going to put a LOL in but I'll personally go to VR and whip Jerry's arse if he traded Jones for Boldin. You're right. Boldin is proven. He's also proven to be difficult. Jones has something elite and not just IMO. No way I trade him st8 up like that. Not now. I'll take my chances on Felix.

I couldn't have said it better.

 

[PBJTime]

There's believing in him, and then there's absolute stupidity. One player is a top 5 (or at least a top 10) receiver in the league and the other is a role player that, while loaded with potential, hasn't done squat in the league.

Yet, there are plenty up idiots here that would trade Romo for Cutler straight up, so I'm not sure why I'm surprised.

My biggest fear would be that we'd trade this running back, loaded with potential, and watch him become one of the best running backs in the league, on another team. I'm not saying that he will be, but you never know.

There's also the age difference and the fact that this WR comes with issues.

 

[twentytwo]

My biggest fear would be that we'd trade this running back, loaded with potential, and watch him become one of the best running backs in the league, on another team. I'm not saying that he will be, but you never know.

There's also the age difference and the fact that this WR comes with issues.

Yeah...that's how I feel.

Also - I feel like Felix makes our team much more versatile than Boldin would.

 

[Randy White]

I was actually laughing because I can't imagine AZ taking that deal. I love Felix as much as anybody, but this would basically be him for Boldin, and they'd never do that.

Finally, some comon sense in here.

Seriously, the expresion " a breath of fresh air in the middle of a smog storm " is an understatement for this post.

 

[Randy White]

There's believing in him, and then there's absolute stupidity. One player is a top 5 (or at least a top 10) receiver in the league and the other is a role player that, while loaded with potential, hasn't done squat in the league..

Ok, two breaths of fresh air..

Slowly, but surely, sanity is returning to this place.

 

[theogt]

My biggest fear would be that we'd trade this running back, loaded with potential, and watch him become one of the best running backs in the league, on another team. I'm not saying that he will be, but you never know.

There's also the age difference and the fact that this WR comes with issues.

I'd rather have the 10th best receiver in the league than the best RB in the league. RBs just aren't that valuable -- or at least, the value that the top RB provides over an average RB isn't as high as the difference between a top WR and an average WR.

Boldin is 28. Romo is 28. Age isn't an issue with Boldin.

Romo, Williams, Boldin, Witten, Barber, and Choice
Romo, Williams, Crayton/Austin, Witten, Barber, and Felix

The difference in talent/production between the two groups would be pretty high.