Giants get
This also allows Giants to still be in win now mode.
- Dez as a bridge and red zone threat to pair with Shepard and time to retool WR group
- #19
- #50
Cowboys get
I would not, but I can see how this could work out for both teams. I also think OBJ will agree to 15 million per year with a big guaranteed bonus because he sees how this is making him look in the media. He won’t get 20 million from anyone.
- OBJ and sign him to 15 million per year contract
X a gadzillion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Trade DEz for a player that is oft injured and has emotional workplace outburst? And he will want more money than Dez? Am I reading this correct? No WR is worth 15 to 20 million dollars. Pay Martin, Lawrence, and Dak.
My philosophy is different than everyone else. Spend the money on a franchise QB, then O-line & D-line. Nfl owners and Gms don't even get this. All the other positions are dependent on the trenches to succeed.
The draft is loaded every year with serviceable wide receivers.
Go watch Forest Gump and practice saying "I am not a smart man".
Agree.There are folks here that seem to think individual stars win championships. You have to have quality players and coaching, but they have to function synergistically as a team to win. OBJ is a talented individual star that does not contribute to team synergies.
Agree.
Even if he had Witten/Lee type character the OPs trade would be absurd.
Good teams don't give up both early picks AND huge cap space for 1 player. It's one or the other. Draft picks are cap management tools. Teams must get production from early draft picks to be able to afford a 15M+ free agent.
Spot on. I personally wouldn’t trade Dez straight up for OBJ. Absolutely the talent level with the later, particularly given the age difference, is better. But for all of his antics, I think Dez has established some cred within his team for the last 8 years that OBJ wouldn’t bring coming from the outside.
We differ on that. I would trade Dez for him and give him incentives to make 15M in 2014.
I would not give him a new contract until after the season. It's a no lose trade for the Cowboys. Dez might get cut anyway and if not this offseason almost definitely next offseason. Even if Dez had a good mental-makeup, he has just lost too much athletic ability.
No one wants to pay for a RB, but they're willing to pay gadzillions for a WR, even though a RB is more likely to lead you to the promised land.
Very strange stuff.
Fair enough. But his antics could cause problems this year. And whatever someone thinks of Garrett, the system and culture here that Jerry has established is not conducive to mitigating those types of problems. NE could, maybe LA, hell, probably every other franchise could. But not here.
Giants get
This also allows Giants to still be in win now mode.
- Dez as a bridge and red zone threat to pair with Shepard and time to retool WR group
- #19
- #50
Cowboys get
I would not, but I can see how this could work out for both teams. I also think OBJ will agree to 15 million per year with a big guaranteed bonus because he sees how this is making him look in the media. He won’t get 20 million from anyone.
- OBJ and sign him to 15 million per year contract
Exactly how would it work out for the Cowboys? OBJ is more emotionally unstable than Dez.I can see how this could work out for both teams.
No one wants to pay for a RB, but they're willing to pay gadzillions for a WR, even though a RB is more likely to lead you to the promised land.
Very strange stuff.