Dolphins working on a trade for offensive tackle Branden Albert

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Branden Albert trade won’t happen unless he lowers his price
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 21, 2013, 6:46 PM EDT
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The much-discussed potential trade of Branden Albert from the Chiefs to the Dolphins doesn’t appear likely at the price Albert is currently seeking.

Although the Chiefs and Dolphins can probably agree on compensation — the Dolphins sending a second-round pick to Kansas City — the hangup is that Albert wants the kind of money that the Dolphins aren’t willing to spend. Specifically, according to Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports, Albert wants between $8 million and $9 million a year on a long-term deal.

In other words, Albert is looking for the same kind of contract that left tackle Jake Long got from the Rams — the very contract the Dolphins wouldn’t give Long, which is why he left Miami for St. Louis.

If the Dolphins weren’t willing to pay Long that kind of money, it’s hard to see why they’d be willing to give up a second-round draft pick for the privilege of paying Albert that kind of money. So the Dolphins may need to look elsewhere for a left tackle. And Albert may have to settle for playing this season for the Chiefs, making $9.8 million, and hitting free agency next year.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

No rookie left tackle has ever started Day One and kicked ass, ever

Wasn't Boselli pretty bad ass out of the gates?

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Scott Wright of NFL Draft Countdown
http://www.missourinet.com/2013/04/1...ing-for-smith/

since it looks like nobody has paid attention to this (there a thread on this somewhere? there should be), gotta quote this. hilarious. BUT BUT BUT.... WE GOT THE BESTEST QB ON TEH MARKETZ

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by O.city

Joeckel and Fisher have talent in what league?

Thats fine if they go that route, but Joeckel or Fisher better be atleast a top 10 ranked OT, immediately.

They have the talent to do extremely well. They project well to this league.

This is basically what you're looking at.

Pay a lot of money to the 17th ranked LT who is injured basically every year and has never made a pro bowl

or

Take a highly ranked LT (who IMO will be better than 17th) who was never injured in college for cheap $$ and use that extra 9 or 10 million to secure the most productive young defensive player on the team.

I don't think this is a tough choice.

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by O.city

Like I said, I like Albert. But he's a bit overrated here, IMO and it's pretty obvious he's not in the plans of the regime at this point.

Just trade him and get it over with and lets move on.

They obviously offered him what they want to pay him. He doesn't want that, he wants more. What should they do then?

Yea, that's what we fans want tonight, until it's a crappy deal, where if we wait a while we might get more. Patience.

Plus, if you wanna look at it from the Dolphins point of view, a lot of their fans were saying today, just wait to see who the Chiefs actually take #1. If it's Fisher, wait and see how far Joeckel starts to fall and go after him. If they take Joeckel call them up and offer a third rounder and nothing more.

Apparently, these Phins fans want Luke.

[ChiefsCountry]

Its amazing how much a dumbass RunKC is.

[Cannibal]

Originally Posted by RunKC

They have the talent to do extremely well. They project well to this league.

This is basically what you're looking at.

Pay a lot of money to the 17th ranked LT who is injured basically every year and has never made a pro bowl

or

Take a highly ranked LT (who IMO will be better than 17th) who was never injured in college for cheap $$ and use that extra 9 or 10 million to secure the most productive young defensive player on the team.

I don't think this is a tough choice.

You make sense here, but it's terrible that it had to come to this. We should be getting a potential ALL PRO at play making position with #1 overall.

[DTLB58]

Originally Posted by RunKC

They have the talent to do extremely well. They project well to this league.

This is basically what you're looking at.

Pay a lot of money to the 17th ranked LT who is injured basically every year and has never made a pro bowl

or

Take a highly ranked LT (who IMO could be better than 17th) for cheap and use that extra 9 or 10 million to secure the most productive young defensive player on the team.

I don't think this is a tough choice.

BA has played in 73 of the 80 games in his 5 year career. Or 14.6 games of a possible 16 per season. Sorry, I don't have the snaps.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Its amazing how much a dumbass RunKC is.

Says the guy who thinks Matt Barkley is going to be a top 10 pick.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Take a highly ranked LT (who IMO will be better than 17th) who was never injured in college for cheap $$ and use that extra 9 or 10 million to secure the most productive young defensive player on the team.

You conveniently left out that little bit about the #1 OVERALL ****ING PICK.

Yeah, there's that whole thing...

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by O.city

Just get it over with and lets move on.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by SNR

You conveniently left out that little bit about the #1 OVERALL ****ING PICK.

Yeah, there's that whole thing...

If the pick was #3 would you have an issue?

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by SNR

You conveniently left out that little bit about the #1 OVERALL ****ING PICK.

Yeah, there's that whole thing...

Are you referring to your opinion that it doesn't improve the team?

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I don't doubt that the product will improve. I expect the team to win between 7-9 games. I also don't see them ever winning more than ten.

If you want to compare Clark Hunt to something, I'd compare him to JCPenney. They fired their CEO last week after he burned through a lot of cash transitioning their entire business model. They brought the old CEO back in and he decided to abort the change and go back to the old model, which will cost just as much money while going back to a business plan that caused his ass to get fired in the first place.

That's essentially what Hunt did. He had a chance to rebuild the team from the ground up, keeping essential pieces and changing the direction and structure of the franchise only to panic halfway through and go back to the same course that led to so much failure and stagnation in the first place.

It's interesting that you reference JC Penney. I love business and finance, and I was looking at gift cards on e-bay the other day. I tried to convince one of my co-workers that you can easily tell how well a business is doing by the price margin between gift card values and sales on ebay. For instance Starbucks... cards are selling for cash at about .75 to the dollar (IMOP they over expanded and the market is saturated) JC Penney's cards are liquidating for about .75 on the dollar (JC Penney..now this is a bit different They are a terrible company with terrible marketing and have a hard time finding a niche in the market imop) Then you have Dilliard's ( a good company w/ good products and a defined niche IMOP) their cards are liquidating for about .85-.90 a dollar. My coworkers were looking at me like I'm from Mars, but I think that's a legit conclusion. Am I wrong?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

If the pick was #3 would you have an issue?

Probably, yeah.

LTs are absolutely worth that high pick WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ONE.

When you do have one, trading him to make room for a guy at the top of the draft is a huge waste of draft value.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Smith isn't going to crawl into a fetal position or take phantom sacks.

Smith isn't going to fumble constantly nor is he a deer in the headlights.

Smith isn't going to say he "Graded out perfectly" after a game in which his QB rating was 20.

Need I go on?

Dude, the 49ers coaching staff told Smith to take sacks. He goes fetal plenty of times.