Now is the time to trade McCarron

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(09-13-2016, 06:20 PM)Benton Wrote:


Pretty much.

People want to compare it to the Oakland deal, but that was different. Hue (like every coach before him) was told to go win a  championship that year and do whatever was necessary. There wasn't any planning down the road, no common vision between the front office and coaching staff, just a mandate to win. And it was given because they thought they had the pieces in place.

Cleveland knows it doesn't have much of anything. From what I've read, Hue has said everyone realizes it's going to take time (interpret the length as long as you want, but I'd say more than the first half of a season). They aren't going to start a rebuilding process that takes at least a couple seasons and scrap that for a backup QB.

In all fairness the Palmer trade could have been a long-term thing, and Carson was a starting QB in 2011, 12, 13, 14, 15, and now in 2016.  Trading a 1st and a 2nd for a guy who will be a sure-fire starting QB for 6 years is a decent deal.  The Raiders just threw it all into that one season that fell short and then fire Hue and replaced him with Dennis Allen who was a total joke of a HC.

The Palmer trade wasn't really an awful mess until they pulled the plug on Hue and shipped Palmer to AZ for a 6th round pick.  They hit on Carr though, so that bailed them out.