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I seem to recall getting laughed off the board a couple of months ago for saying we should trade a couple of our later round picks for Samari Rolle & Kevin Carter when everyone else said "why give up a pick for them when you can get them as free agents". My answer then was the same as now, because you'd have gotten them for sure without having to compete for their services and wouldn't have had to pay a high signing bonus to get them, nor would you have had to waste a high pick to get them.
Everyone knew they were going to be released for more than a month prior to it happening and nobody did anything, so we aren't alone, every other team could have done the same thing. However what almost every one of those teams did do was step up to the plate and pay the FA money to get a player.
Either way here we are right before the draft still without a corner hoping that we will give up our second round pick for a CB whose not as good as a guy we quite possibly could have had for a 5th rounder.
Don't think they would have traded either of them for the 5th? They traded Carlos Hall for a "undisclosed pick", don't you think they would have rather gotten something, for better players, than the nothing they got? Hall didn't cost them squat against their cap and they still traded him away. Anyone care to argue that Hall is better than Carter?
Our front office conducts half of their business like a handyman working out of their truck and has no ability or apparent desire to forecast events with other teams or project our own needs and thats why we will be sitting on our asses come January 2006.
You can be a great handyman, but working from job to job or deal to deal isn't going to get you anywhere, other than "by". I was impressed with the Bell signing as well as the Knight pickup, but it's like unless someone calls CP and tells him "we want to trade xxx player, do you want to trade?" he just doesn't think about calling and feeling things out himself.
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