[keg in kc]

It's called "chicken" Ken (I'll stop the peckerfan stuff since you asked). The Rams blinked and backed off of their "1st and 3rd no less" stance and we got an acceptable deal. We won the game which started at "1st and 3rd plus a 2002 pick" and ended up at "12 for Green, the rights to Horne (kick returner with 4 tds in 2 years, he's never returned punts) and a 5th round pick".

Prior to the trade I said I'd take #12 and #75 for Green and #54 (that pick ended up going to 'zona in the Williams deal...). Green, the rights to Horne and #150 is an equitable or better deal than that in my opinion, just as I said the day of the trade. I haven't changed my stance in the least and I'm certainly not trying to justify anything. This is what I've said for months, including weeks before the draft.

You can try to convince yourself and anyone else who'll listen to the contrary, but the fact of the matter is that there is no way that Green would have been a free agent prior to next year . We may have made a mistake in not waiting that year, but trying to say he'd have been released this offseason is simply ludicrous. The Rams would have had no problems whatsoever finding room under the cap for him, unless they have the most incompetent management in the NFL.

Anyway, though, this really is a dead subject. You can argue "coulda, woulda, shoulda" all you want, but it doesn't change the fact of what "is". Green is here, the trade is done, and beyond that we all know you hate Carl Peterson (and so do many folks here, myself being pretty close to being in that group...). We can argue about it until we're blue in the face, but it won't bring Dilfer, Johnson, Flutie or Beuerlein and, like it or not, Trent Green [b]is[/b] beginning to establish himself as a favorite here already. If his play on the field matches his media savvy (it may or it may not, he's got to prove it on the field) then it was a good trade, no matter how you shape it up. In the end, that's always what it comes down to. Just like virtually any player in any trade in any city, if he plays well, it was a great trade and he'll be the king of KC, if he doesn't, it wasn't and we'll probably see "Trent Trashers" popping up all over the place.

I'd personally rather see how he plays than keep having these same arguments for another three months ('cause this one's been going on ad nauseam since the day he was traded here, and weeks before...).