Bye Bye Veterans
if you can't beat'em, trade'em. i just traded away my only assets for a trio of young players who may or may not work out. after many negotiations, my team is now stocked to the brim with young RBs and virtually worthless WRs. the only pieces that anyone wanted from my team were joe horn and corey dillon. last week i was approached by the phreaks about potentially dealing for jamal lewis. i shouted in joy and said "take anything on my roster." but the phreaks were holding out for a number one WR, and more specifically terrell owens. i tried to pry TO off flaming shrapnel but that didn't happen.
why trade jamal lewis? coming off of one of the seasons ever by a RB? well, precisely because it's one of the best seasons ever. jamal's stock will never be higher. and while he is still a very young back, he has had multiple knee surgeries, as well as an impending court case. and the phreaks look to be pretty secure in the backfield (with portis, kevin jones, brian westbrook) but terribly weak on the edges (javon walker is their best WR). so after persuing the phreak's roster, i understood why they might offer up a top five back.
for a short while i had visions of a rudi johnson and jamal lewis backfield on my team. that would of made me incredibly strong and made my off-season wheelings and dealings a complete success. alas, it was not to be. the offer of horn and dillon (and whatever else) was not enough to acquire jamal. instead i turned around and dealt horn/dillon to buffy for stephen jackson, willis mcgahee and justin mccareins. essentially i dumped productivity for potential. horn will still be a top ten WR but he's a bit old, and corey will probably have a good year or two. but i needed to swing for the fences.
and now i have five young backs on my team (jackson, mcgahee, rudi johnson, deshaun foster, lee suggs) and one holdover, tiki barber. all pre-season reports indicate that these young guys will have great seasons, if given the opportunity to play. my goal by the end of this season is to have two franchise backs out of these five. will it happen? time will tell. of course, the tradeoff of such a promising RB corps is that my WRs are ridiculously inexperienced and unproven. best WR on my roster? um, donald driver? and he might be dropped soon. i'm in love with newly acquired justin mccareins but he's the second WR on the jets. promising rookies larry fitzgerald and roy williams are rookies. ashley lelie is looking worse and worse each day. i might be awesomely screwed on the WR front. but who cares! i'm mining for backs.
it's quite fun to be rebuilding like this. i feel like i have no use for certain players (anyone over the age of 29 essentially) and i'm only looking at young guys. so i feel this freedom to wheel and deal for assets. this could all backfire tremendously of course, but what else can you do when your best player was joe horn? i had really wanted to move horn, corey and tiki but nobody seems to want tiki "i fumble a lot" barber.
i still need to cut two more players from my roster before opening weekend. i think i know who's going. but i have to try to make another deal. oh, i was *this* close to acquiring michael bennett and eric moulds but that was only in exchange for dillon and lelie. now bennett is hurt so i guess that was a good deal averted. but moving dillon for moulds and bennett would of really helped my chances this season. now i'll be heading in with a roster that is long on potential but short on proven production.
why trade jamal lewis? coming off of one of the seasons ever by a RB? well, precisely because it's one of the best seasons ever. jamal's stock will never be higher. and while he is still a very young back, he has had multiple knee surgeries, as well as an impending court case. and the phreaks look to be pretty secure in the backfield (with portis, kevin jones, brian westbrook) but terribly weak on the edges (javon walker is their best WR). so after persuing the phreak's roster, i understood why they might offer up a top five back.
for a short while i had visions of a rudi johnson and jamal lewis backfield on my team. that would of made me incredibly strong and made my off-season wheelings and dealings a complete success. alas, it was not to be. the offer of horn and dillon (and whatever else) was not enough to acquire jamal. instead i turned around and dealt horn/dillon to buffy for stephen jackson, willis mcgahee and justin mccareins. essentially i dumped productivity for potential. horn will still be a top ten WR but he's a bit old, and corey will probably have a good year or two. but i needed to swing for the fences.
and now i have five young backs on my team (jackson, mcgahee, rudi johnson, deshaun foster, lee suggs) and one holdover, tiki barber. all pre-season reports indicate that these young guys will have great seasons, if given the opportunity to play. my goal by the end of this season is to have two franchise backs out of these five. will it happen? time will tell. of course, the tradeoff of such a promising RB corps is that my WRs are ridiculously inexperienced and unproven. best WR on my roster? um, donald driver? and he might be dropped soon. i'm in love with newly acquired justin mccareins but he's the second WR on the jets. promising rookies larry fitzgerald and roy williams are rookies. ashley lelie is looking worse and worse each day. i might be awesomely screwed on the WR front. but who cares! i'm mining for backs.
it's quite fun to be rebuilding like this. i feel like i have no use for certain players (anyone over the age of 29 essentially) and i'm only looking at young guys. so i feel this freedom to wheel and deal for assets. this could all backfire tremendously of course, but what else can you do when your best player was joe horn? i had really wanted to move horn, corey and tiki but nobody seems to want tiki "i fumble a lot" barber.
i still need to cut two more players from my roster before opening weekend. i think i know who's going. but i have to try to make another deal. oh, i was *this* close to acquiring michael bennett and eric moulds but that was only in exchange for dillon and lelie. now bennett is hurt so i guess that was a good deal averted. but moving dillon for moulds and bennett would of really helped my chances this season. now i'll be heading in with a roster that is long on potential but short on proven production.
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