NOW Might be a Good Time for a Trade

You would probably have to trade Starks for Kouandjio, do not know if I would do that.

That might not be so bad. How much do we want to protect Aaron? Plus, Starks is from Buffalo...

 

I could live with a backfield of Lacy, Harris and Crockett, or Lacy, Neal and Harris.

No team is trading a young offensive lineman with even a modicum of talent for a 29-year-old running back.

You underestimate sexy Rexy Ryan

This might get it done. 

Looks like DAL could use a RB too. There is a market, and we have 5 pretty good RBs. DAL is also flush with OL talent.

You may have a point.

 

Fans tend to overestimate their own. There are young RBs like Harris, Crockett and Neal in every training camp.

You may have a point.

If someone offered an attractive package for Starks, you do it in a heartbeat. I like him, but he's not a feature back in my mind. His value in Green Bay is certain- he's a great backup to the bellcow. If someone offered a talented whatever, or a high pick next year or something? You make the deal. And if it was Buffalo, sending the kid home would reduce the sting of getting traded.

We'll see if any of it even come close, but if you're offered a solid value, even a pick? You do it.

The Bills biggest need is still a QB. But Ryan don't care about QBs so he'll keep playing the ground and pound with a tough D game... and keep missing the playoffs.

Just saw on National Football Post that their #5 RB, Karlos Williams was hospitalized. Add to that a hamstring injury to their #3 RB Anthony Dixon. That's 4 RBs down in BUF.

They just added one, a guy named Cierre Wood as well as Red Bryant on the DL

Exactly. Robert Ferguson is still available, by the way.

No team is going to give up anything of value for Starks. Besides, the Packers can't afford to let him go. For all we know, Neal, Harris and Crockett are Sutton, Lumpkin and Nance.

Here ya go Trophies,

 

Thompson says they are always looking at other players around the league

From his presser today:

 

• "We're doing a lot of work on teams around the league. Whole group is working hard up there on that."
• (On scouting other teams) "We're looking like everybody else, in some respects curiosity. Especially the young players who came through the draft, how are they doing, do they look like you thought they look. In terms of the rest of the league, we like to line up the substitutions. We do it non-stop. We're always looking."
• (On a player you like) "You're watching what the "home" team is doing. If you don't think they're going to let him go, you move on."

Packers look but don't touch.

The touching part is up to the player in question

 

The Packers ask every player to come to GB for a visit because that is the Packers' best selling point. What the non- Packer players and wives know of GB isn't overly flattering, so they always want them to visit in person and see the real deal for themselves.

 

If the player won't come for a visit, then all he wants is cash and that's not ever gonna be the Packers' best selling point. The Packers front office are merely playing to their strengths, as they should.

 

You wanna be a Green Bay Packer ? Come on over, we'd love to talk.

Just chasing a paycheck ? Auf wiedersehen

 

Now when it comes to trades, that's obviously a different story and I think the Packers will try to move a few guys in late August. The 2 suspensions give the Packers 2 extra roster spots for an extra week or so. That's huge in terms of roster flexibility

 

Ted will just tell the other teams: the vikes already have his plane ticket printed, if you want the guy, make us an offer

 

Three-way trade: Jeff Janis, Matt Blanchard and Demetri Goodson to the Browns, Terrance West and Whisper Goodman the Bills, Green Bay gets Joe Thomas and Buffalo's first-rounder next year. TT is an idiot if he doesn't take this deal.

I'd veto it and demand that a better deal be negotiated.

With Jarrett Bush no longer on the roster, I don't think the Pack has enough trade bait to land Joe Thomas from Cleveland.

I'd throw Gunter in if need be.

Plus cash considerations. 

CAR just lost Kelvin Benjamin with a knee, then his replacement, Devin Funchess went down with a hamstring...

 

We are deep at WR.

Benjamin out for the year?  I have him on my FF team.

Unless it's a dynasty league, WTF have you already had your draft?

It's a dynasty league.

 

Just did a search.  Sprain and due for a mri.

Daydream thread.

No Herbert "Whisper" Goodman?

Between him and Colt Lyerla, your roster is hosed

This would be great if there were actually, you know, like trades in the NFL anymore.

 

(Insert name), you will get a (conditional) 7th rounder for him.

 

Period.

Yeah. Trades used to be cool. Why not make one, or two, or three to circumvent the cutdown talent grab hierarchy?

Patriots traded a lineman for a TE just a few short days ago.  

 

Huge news. 

 

Really. 

I think teams have learned over the last few years that players once traded for are likely to be available on the waiver wire after cutdown. There's always exceptions, of course, but it's largely what the salary cap has done to trades.

 

Benjamin is out for the year.  (I know I have Colt stashed somewhere deep in my reserves!)

How many here would trade Scott Tolzien for a starting calibre LT?

 

Oddly enough, both BUF and NYJ are QB needy teams. Desperately so. I like Tolzien a lot. The guy is performing very well. Might be an opportunity to get a nice bit of compensation for QB development, while adding an insurance policy to protect Aaron's blindside with Bakhtiari having some knee issues. That would harken back to the Ron Wolf days a bit. Legit backup QB who can start for a legit backup LT who can start.

In a heartbeat.

 

We're talking about Joe Thomas, right?

with Hundley around, yeah I could trade Tolzien for a good LT.

Even if they would give up an OT for Tolzien, who would they get?

 

Bupkus, that's what. D'Brick is the only LT prospect on either team worth a bag of spit, and they wouldn't trade him for Tolzien. The Bills O-Line is the land of underachievers with Cordy McLumox at LT, Seantrel the human lowlight Henderson at RT and Cyrus The Stiff Kouandjio behind him.

Tough to say Hersch. The Jets have spent a ton of cash to make a move on NE this offseason. They know that will be impossible without a good QB. They might part with D'Brick, for a guy who can walk in and start, and who learned from Rodgers/McCarthy.