Tony Gonazlez Unhappy He Wasn't Traded - Ruh Roh

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

What were they at the trade deadline, 2-5? Bad, but not out of it. Can't blame Atl for not trading him. It would have been like telling the rest of the team and the fans--give up, season's over.

New Orleans and Seattle were 6-1 at the time, and Green Bay and San Francisco were 5-2. Carolina and Chicago only 4-3, though, and the NFCE was the NFCE, which is where the Falcons could have been hanging their hats. Unfortunately for trade thinking, the Panthers and Falcons played the week after the deadline instead of the week before. Had the deadling been after that 34-10 whooping instead of before, the Falcons might have been more willing to move Gonzalez.