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Buy Low on Roddy White! (1 Viewer)

LaZair32 said:
The Roddy White owner in my league just offered me Roddy White for Johnny Knox straight up! I was reading these forums and saw another owner gave up T. Choice for White. Moral of the story: Go grab a free agent and trade him for White! :bag:
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run don't walk to the "accept trade" button...
 
Man, I was thinking about trying to get Roddy all week, and as Im making a offer and check back to see something, a trade was accepted:

Roddy and Lav Coles for Portis and Fred Taylor

GD SOB!!!

I was probably going to offer him Housh and Leon Washington, but he clearly already got a better offer IMO.

 
I just got White for McFadden. I think it helped us both though, as I was pretty fat at RB and, although I was really high on DMac during pre-season, I am beginning to think he's not going to do all that much this year. I've still got him on a couple teams though. I think I got a steal, to tell the truth.

 
I sent Ray Rice for Roddy hoping he accepts...

I can start 1rb and 3wr if I want and am hoping White, Fitzgerald and S. Smith are my core and then just use Benson and whoever at RB

 
I offered Warner for White............ :no:

then I offered Warner and McFadden for White/Lynch........... :no:

then he COUNTERED White for Sanchez.............. :yes: :excited:

:shrug:

 
Successfully traded Hightower + Mason for White. Very happy with this. .5 ppr

 
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bucsbaby said:
Successfully traded Hightower + Mason for White. Very happy with this. .5 ppr
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1PPR, took two weeks and this guy going to 0-3 and facing the ATL's byes but I just got what I believe is a great deal:Big BenGrantD. MasonforPalmerTurnerWhitePretty stoked.
 
Das Boot said:
bonesman said:
DoubleG said:
Anyone getting "insulted" or feeling "disrespected" by a FF offer...please stop.
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Even after you explicitly state that you are unwilling trade player X yet you still get offers with him included? That's definitely on the verge of insulting for me.
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He's not insulting you with an offer like that.

However, he is questioning your manhood.

The only way to respond is with an even more outlandish offer sent in a pink envelope.

At least that's how it's handled in Britain when someone offers a midfielder for a goalie or something crazy like that.
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Isn't questioning someone's manhood pretty insulting to them.I do find some of the more ridiculous trade offers "insulting" because people think they can get over on you and are thus either questioning your manhood or your intelligence. Not a big deal but insulting nonetheless.

Back to the topic at hand. I tried to get Roddy and offered S. Moss and M. Moore (he has Parker). He countered by offering Roddy and J. Charles for S. Moss and Bradshaw.

I think its a fair deal but Im not inclined to do it b/c I like Bradshaw's upside and w/ my garbage RB corps I see myself playing him as my flex quite a few times this season.

 
bumping to see what kind of offers are going out for Roddy.

offered D. Brown (he has Addai)/M. Bush/Manningham for Sproles (I have LT)/White

figured it would at least get some discussion going...

 
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I just got offered Roddy and Dwayne Bowe for Ronnie Brown. I've got MJD, D. Will, J. Stewart, T. Choice, D. Brown and M. Bush also at RB and crap at WR so looks like a no-brainer.

 
In a non-ppr Dynasty league I just gave Westy and D Keller for White. I really needed to upgrade my WR's and I have CJ3, MJD, Bradshaw and Ray Rice. Granted. this trade doesn't look as good as it would have last year but I don't think I would have gotten him for that then.

 
gheemony said:
White got traded for Clinton Portis in one of my leagues. I think that's a steal.
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I'm offering portis for him in my league.....been up 2 days and hasn't been rejected yet. (hoping)* Just got rejected. Thinking about upping the ante to Portis and Hester for White, see what happens.
 
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Picked up Roddy along with Beanie Wells before week 4 for Steve Slaton. Think Slaton will have a decent year still but not last week was a bit of a mirage I think and I expect Roddy to go nowhere but up.

 
I've been offered Jacobs and Jerome Harrison for Julius Jones, White and Knox. I got Knox off waivers. He is a sell high guy if I've ever seen one. So in effect its a white and Jones for Jacobs deal. I'll have Boldin, Jennings, Breaston and Burleson remaining at wr and Gore, Kevin Smith and Jacobs at rb. I'm struggling with this one. I wish I knew if Harrison was going take the starting job.

 
Good posting and good call IMO. Although week 5, I bought low and feel like he could now be in good shape. I was wondering what was going on with him, seems to have been a bit of a mental thing about the pressure of the contract. Good article I found on him:

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id...d-form-and-more

SAN FRANCISCO -- On the practice field Monday morning, Roddy White and Mike Smith looked at each other and said the exact same thing to each other.

"I told him, 'I need to talk to you,' " White said. "And he said, 'I need to talk to you too.' "

A couple of hours later, they sat down in Smith's second-floor office in the team's Flowery Branch, Ga., headquarters. The doors were closed and, if you've ever seen Smith's office, you know it looks like a very serious place. It's the size of a classroom and seems very corporate.

It's not.

What happened between the coach of the Atlanta Falcons and his slumping wide receiver was casual -- just a chat, really.

"Coach told me I was putting too much pressure on myself," White said. "He told me to just go out there and relax and do what I did last year."

On Sunday, White did more than any wide receiver has done in the franchise's 43 years. He caught 10 passes for a team-record 210 yards and two touchdowns as the Falcons defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 45-10, at Candlestick Park.

White scored on a 31-yard pass from Matt Ryan in the first quarter and broke off a 90-yard touchdown in the second. His output for the day was nearly double what White had in the first three games of the season -- 15 catches for 119 yards and one touchdown.

That start was low-lighted by a four-catch, 24-yard performance against New England in Week 4, and all that factored into why White and Smith had their little talk as the Falcons returned to work after the bye.

"I just felt like I wasn't playing like myself," White said.

White sure wasn't playing anything like last season, when he caught 88 passes for 1,382 yards and seven touchdowns and went to the Pro Bowl. And he sure wasn't playing anything like the wide receiver he or the Falcons were expecting when White signed a six-year, $48 million contract extension in August to end a training-camp holdout.

"I didn't think Roddy was playing bad," said quarterback Matt Ryan, who threw for a career-high 329 yards Sunday. "We had been close to making some big plays and some of that falls on me for not making them. It wasn't Roddy's fault. I have so much confidence in him going out there and making plays."

Ryan's confidence may not have wavered, but White can be his own worst critic and he wasn't at all happy with his start.

"I got off to a slow start," White said.

The reason?

Take your pick of a whole bunch of contributors. White said he was trying too hard and thinking too much and admitted the contract that made him one of the league's highest-paid receivers took a mental toll.

"I was going out there thinking about the contract and how I felt I had to prove I deserved it," White said. "You get that in your head and the next thing you know you're not yourself."

Thing is, the Falcons already thought White was one of the league's best receivers. That's why they gave him the deal even though he would have been only a restricted free agent in 2010.

White risked quite a bit when he decided not to report to training camp on time. At first, it seemed as if the sides were far apart and the peaceful atmosphere that followed last year's surprise playoff berth and a calm and quiet offseason suddenly seemed in danger.

But when Harry Douglas, who was supposed to be the third receiver, went down with a season-ending injury early in camp, the Falcons and White suddenly started talking and a deal was reached Aug. 8.

The "real" White didn't show up until Sunday. He started the season with five catches for 42 yards in a victory against Miami and followed that with six catches for 53 yards in a win against Carolina.

On talk radio in Atlanta and on message boards, the rumbles started that White had gotten too soft, fat and happy after getting his contract. White didn't hear or see any of that, but he was smart enough to sense that it probably was out there. White was busy doubting himself.

"I didn't have a clue what was going on," White said.

Until he sat down in Smith's office. As soon as the coach told him he was pressing too hard, White realized the problem. Once he got the message, everything suddenly changed.

On Sunday, White just went out and had fun -- lots of it as the Falcons set a franchise record by scoring 35 points in the first half.

"People always say coach Smith is a players' coach," White said. "Now, I realize why. I went in there and just talked to him because you can do that. I didn't know what was going on and he told me. I needed to just get back to being myself."
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