Yesterday, 12:53 PM
(Yesterday, 12:45 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Very rare you see trades this early in the season, tell me who made a trade of any importance this week ?, we need to weather this week with Carolina and could have three players back on our Dline for the Ravens and actually Guy did not play bad in the snaps he got in and evaluate in 3 weeks if we need to think of trading, maybe we could send Higgins somewhere for a Dline player
Correct. For the most part, every team thinks they are in it still and don't want to trade away difference makers at this point as it will turn off the fans. The other issue with the idea that you go throw a mid to early pick at the problem...you are 0-3 with a 2.4% likely hood of making the playoffs and at best that pick is probably bring you a one year rental. You also just invested a large amount of draft capital on two rookies, so throwing more capital at it wouldn't make a ton of sense.
This is simply an issue that was allowed to occur during the offseason and we pay for it now. Throwing good money after bad doesn't make sense at this point. I have the biggest issue with Sheldon Rankings being the plan all along. He was never a viable nose tackle option and we should have invested some of the money we spent in other places there. It didn't even need to be Reader but it needed to be some one who could give meaningful early down snaps at NT. We now have one of the highest paid DT tandems in the league (dead serious) and they are frankly not good.
The sad thing is the O line has been good enough after many years and now we don't have any pass rush.
