Do your other stories upon stories contain huge exaggerations too?I have stories upon stories about how I could not get deals done with BAD owners when I was clearly offering more than the person they eventually did a deal with.Warhogs said:I won't comment on that. I am only saying that the guy offering Brandon Marshall probably could have gotten the deal done had he just added a couple more starting players to his offer.
Just, the whole reasoning of what that other owner needed to get the deal done just screams bad owner. He was limiting himself by saying he had to have "3-4 starters" or whatever. Starter does not always = "good".
I had a guy once who was shopping both Cam Newton and Arian Foster. And by shopping both I mean he HAD to deal both in the same deal. Meaning, he would not deal Newton to one owner, and Foster to another...............he HAD to deal both away in a package. This may have been the single dumbest thing I have ever seen an owner do.
He limited his trading partners to only like 1-2 people because of this, hence, limiting how much he could get instead of trading each guy individually. Also, he was rebuilding and for some reason thought it was a good idea to trade Newton, but that's a whole different conversation of what NOT to do for a rebuild.
Easily he could have gotten more for both guys had he shopped each separately. I actually offered a deal for just Foster that was pretty good, and the deal he eventually took made me laugh when I saw what I was giving him for Foster, knowing he still would have had Newton.
Much the guy with Marshall in your example, it was a classic case where I couldn't get a deal done with this owner because for some reason he would not allow himself to get the best deals he could, and he was willing to take less by dealing both together for some odd reason.
The owner to which you referred traded away Arian Foster, Cam Newton and Ben Tate for Mike Wallace, Jeremy Maclin, Andy Dalton and the 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 last year. Consensus on those picks were Andrew Luck, David Wilson and Justin Blackmon.
Foster/Cam/Tate for Wallace/Maclin/Luck/D.Wilson/Blackmon/Dalton.
I’d say that owner did pretty well for himself on that trade.