I know it’s a business, but I wonder if Kraft would step in and stop this move. Solder would be moving cross country from his toddler who’s battling cancer in the best city to be doing so. I don’t know about that.
I just think it’s a bad idea. Solder has had a few bad games, but he’s taking too much flak. He’s been ok the past month or so, and with Cannon injured I don’t think Tackle is the spot you want to mess with. Brady will score well enough provided he’s not getting thrown on his ass every play.
I'm not advocating trading him because he's been a bad player. He's been an average LT. It just seems like they drafted his replacement in Tony Garcia and for this year Waddle can step in and do a good enough job. It would allow some work load to be taken off Gronk as no other TE can be counted on and help in the red area to have both Gronk and Graham especially if Hogan has to miss time.
Why are the Panthers sellers? They 5-3 now.
The RB are going to be playing 15 snaps a game versus a guy who can come on and play most defensive snaps. Sure, RB depth is nice, but DE is a far more pressing need. They get no pressure and Marsh struggles mightily to contain.
They aren’t sellers. Burkhead is a good player who can help them now and eat up snaps. Peppers is old, but he’s playing so well they probably wouldn’t even consider, even with an added draft pick.
In the Patriots case they owe either their 3rd or 4th rd pick to Philly and 5th/7th rd picks to Seattle. They should recoup 2 comp picks but should they be trading away picks given their roster depth? A player for player trade makes the most sense for them this year.
Is roster depth a plus or minus in your estimation? I guess it depends on the position.
OK, thanks. It doesn't look like PFR's trade finder has anything in it since the last draft. It might be missing more (Brissett for Dorsett comes to mind), but I don't think it materially changes the point that player-for-player trades are rare.
Burkhead is UNTOUCHABLE.
This trade and Brissett-for-Dorsett (as well as some other examples, like DGB for Kelly or Thomas for Kerley) fall in the category of both teams trading someone they likely were going to cut anyway. Hoomanawanui was a healthy scratch right before the trade and Hicks was getting phased out. NO might have worried about him as a locker room distraction or something.
A friend of mine sat behind Nink and Light on a flight to Vegas last week. He said they literally drank the plane out of beer and vodka. I’m going to speculate he hasn’t been hitting the gym with an intent to unretire, but my friend did say he looked like he was still in playing shape. Take that fwiw, which is not much.
Sure, but it also sounds like Jerel Worthy and Jon Bostic and any number of other trades that didn't amount to anything.
I still don't know why they just train him up to be a edelman/hogan replacement, since he's good receiving instincts
And he needs to run 40 yard sprints when catching underneath routes how many times a game?
Okay, why do you believe he would have success running routes against DBs instead of LBs?
