The John Owens Trade/Cut

[JoeRobStad4ever]

I don't know if this was already discussed or not...

Does anyone know what the conditions were on the conditional draft pick? 'Cause my speculation is that by John Owens not making the team, that this somehow improves our ability to reap the rewards from the conditions under us receiving a draft pick from the Bears (for instance, maybe the terms said that if Owens didn't make the team than we were entitled to a 6th rounder from Chicago, but if he did make the team, we got nothing).

This is the only way I can make sense out of trading away Ayanbadejo for a guy that we cut as soon as he got here. If so, then I think it's a smart move by Saban by grabbing an extra draft pick. So the trade was basically Ayanbadejo for the draft pick, whatever it becomes, assuming the conditions have been met for us to receive it, which I'm guessing it has and that this was Nick's plan all along...

 

[Dolfan1000]

Most likely.

But keep in mind Ayanbadejo would not have made our team anyway- his spot was gone the minute Jason Glenn got here and started playing so well.

 

[JoeRobStad4ever]

Sweet that we were able to get a draft pick for him then.

Again I wonder if Saban made the deal all along just in order to get the pick and I'm wondering if he just had to structure it that way, through a player, to make it seem like we wanted the player and not the pick (or maybe we just said, we'll take Owens, but we don't know enough about him, so we want insurance, ala a conditional pick, in case he sucks!)....Man, I wish we would done that with AJ and Lamar Gordon, but of course Wanny wasn't that smart.

Also, what's weird is that we were able to get a draft pick for Ayanbadejo but not for Lamar Gordon...

 

[Samphin]

It also could have gone the other way. Like, when we gave up the seventh for Sage, I think the condition was he had to make the team. So, the condition might have been that Owens had to make the squad or we get a seventh instead of a sixth or something along those lines.