Soooo....Philly fans will have to explain to me why they just paid St. Louis for the honor of Bradford. A similar player to Foles, but more injuries, older, higher salary and they gave St. Louis picks AND Foles? I assumed this was a deal to allow them to move up (i.e. if the got picks or had someone in mind to send Bradford to) or a straight swap, but you don't give picks away if that is the case.
I get trading McCoy and even letting Maclin leave. They weren't his guys and you can argue about whether they are worth what they are about paid (and whether you want to invest that much into two guys who play a devalued position and a receiver who is very good, but not elite). Like with Miami, Suh may be worth his price but is he worth the clogged cap space when you want to retain other guys down the line? I don't know if I would have done one or both, but I can understand it.
But the Bradford trade...? It's baffling.
Okay, I'm a St. Louis fan....and even I do not understand what the hell we just got away with (and we got 3 first rounders out of DC for RGIII).
We didn't even give up the 10th pick, we just have this elaborate set up for conditional and additional picks. I can understand Bradford being reunited with Pat Shurmur, his original OC, and he would probably do well in Kelly's system, but that's conditional on having A) An awesome Offensive Line, B) A great running corps, C) Receivers.
I don't know about A (for the record the Rams are 10 years in on trying to find that), but they traded B (McCoy) to Buffalo (leaving Darren Sproles), and Maclin just went to Kansas City to reunite with Andy Reid leaving a receiving corps of Riley Cooper, Jordan Matthews, Brent Celek, and Zach Ertz.
...yeah. That happened.
If Bradford turns into what he was supposed to be, I won't be surprised, but he's more injury prone then Foles and still has like $13 million owed to him a year, while Foles has $1.25 million a year. The problem Foles has is that he goes to a team that has no offensive line.
So this has a 50/50 chance of working out, but if it does for the Rams? Then Les Snead is magic. (Seriously how do we still have the 10th overall pick?)
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Now onto other news.
Jimmy Graham has been sent to the Seahawks. Is this the start of a firesale or something else?
http://www.nfl.com/n...my-graham-trade
Darrelle Revis wins a Superbowl with the Patriots, goes back to the Jets for 70 million, (39 guaranteed)
http://www.nfl.com/n...o-terms-on-deal
Ravens trade Ngata to the Lions for 4th and 5th rounders. Lose Torrey Smith to the 49ers for $40 million.
Frank Gore had cold feet with the Eagles, signs with the Colts.
And suddenly the NFL is an 11-month long event with this craziness...
*goes back to playing Deliverance on a banjo*