Peter King's Football Morning In America column leads with Deshaun Watson and what it might take for interested teams (Jets? Panthers?) to trade for him.
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• MIAMI DOLPHINS. You’d hear a big, loud, “We’re not trading Tua if the Dolphins weren’t at least pondering Watson.” Why wouldn’t they be? It’s extremely hard, after seeing one year of
Tua Tagovailoa, to think his mega-upside would equal the 2021 Watson. It’s logical to at least look into it.
Peter King Proposal: Miami trades defensive end
Christian Wilkins, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, first-round picks in 2021 (third overall) and 2023, and second-round picks in 2021 and 2022 for Watson. In essence, Miami is trading the 13th overall pick in 2019 (Wilkins) and the fifth overall pick in 2020 (Tagovailoa), plus two ones and two twos for Watson. Advantage for Miami is the deal would leave the Dolphins with first-round and second-round picks this year and their first next year while giving them a quarterback to play on equal footing with Josh Allen in the AFC East for the next decade.
As nice as it would be to nail a franchise QB for the next decade ... I struggle with the cost .... his 156 million dollar contract AND the loss of 2 players AND 4 top draft picks (potential talent, resources to maneuver in the draft and the friendly cap numbers) ... puts us in a cap strapped talentless position that we know so well .... we, only recently, got things trending upward ...
For those reasons ... I'm out ... many of us have seen well built TEAMS with avg to above avg QB's win consistently and compete in the playoffs and even win a super bowl .... Hell yes I want a franchise megastar QB ... but not at the expense of setting us back years in a 10-6 or 11-5 team ... not really much difference in the 8-8 or 9-7 teams we have fielded in recent years ...
Draft Parsons ... use the next 3 picks on offense ... adding a dynamic player on defense to solidify a pretty darn good unit AND add talent to the offense would be my direction given where we are right now.
IF we had the talent needed with the skills I would look at this through a different lens .... our strength as a team is on defense right now ... DO NOT IGNORE an opportunity to make it special ....
Build the team ... the QB will follow