Originally posted by enigmatics
......... This upcoming draft looks unbelievable with the amount of prospects in the WR department. I don't think we'll ever see these kinds of potentials coming out at the same time ever again. What do you get though with the draft???? You get a giant crapshoot. There's no telling whether the guy you draft will amount to anything.
Now, flash forward to this Moss thing. First off I don't ever want to hear there's absolutely no merit to it. Of course there's merit, in an offseason where in the blink of an eye suddenly Clinton Portis became expendable anything's possible. With the way this offseason has been shaping up, I think we're going to see activity that we haven't seen in the NFL in quite some time.
The trade makes complete sense to me in my eyes. Randy's contract isn't ridiculous at all...... his craziest number is $12 million which would be in 2007, but his contract could be redone as we're seeing with everyone at the moment. The Vikings get 2 players in Madison and Ogunleye who are easily top 10 in their respected positions. I don't care what you facetiously think of Madisons play, he's still one of the top tier CB's. He just unfortunately got the raw end of the deal in our secondary because you cannot throw at Surtain at all and our safeties do not provide great deep over the top protection. And c'mon .......Ogun's 28 sacks of the last 2 seasons isn't an aberration. It's no surprise he benefits from Taylor being on the line too, but in the right scheme where the team has good DT's (ala Kevin Williams and Chris Hovan) to provide run support, he'd be a helluvan upgrade.
We get the best WR in the league..........can't argue that. He's got an attitude problem, no doubt about that either, but can you deny that much talent???? Be honest........ how could you not take an opportunity like him seriously???? Sure we'd lose Ogun....... sure we'd lose Madison.........but in the end it looks like those players were going to be gone anyway. Especially Ogun, you guys know we need those draft picks badly. And we may not even get a 1st and 3rd, but a 1st and 4th??? You know we'd be willing to resign and trade him for that. Madison, well we've all been reading how that contract situation has been playing out........ it isn't......... and we could replace him easily considering how many quality DB's there are on the market. Not every corner out there is going to be getting elite money so let's just admit that.
Best of all, we could still draft one of those young WR's. "But Chambers is our no.1, how are we gonna get the ball to him and Moss?" ...........c'mon man, Chambers ain't no Moss, not even close and as far as it goes Chambers is still a project, QB or not, he has not shown any consistency. If Chambers were to demand a huge contract next year, which he has absolutely nothing to show for that kind of demand, then let him go, because we could have a Reggie Williams or other draft stud waiting to take his place.
This deal has all kinds of merit. Will it go down???? Nobody knows. I hate it when I see people shoot down things like this when it's actually being reported. It would be one thing if it were just some message board rumor...........this one wasn't born in a forum folks.
