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September 18, 2008No Really, Don’t We Deserve Better?
September 18, 2008Oh, Chiefs fan. You’ve got some nerve. One of my favorite sports traditions is always the game of “Homer Fan Posts Trades Of Their Team’s Trash For Other Team’s Good Players”. You don’t honestly think we’ll just give you one of our QBs, do you?
Apparently, you do. Exhibit A: Get Brady Now.
Here, we think it would be great if the Chiefs grabbed Brady Quinn from the Browns. Maybe a third round pick and Brodie, maybe a second or first round pick, who knows? We just know the Chiefs have the cash and the need.
Sure. Sounds good. But, I don’t think their trade ideas are the most beneficial or realistic. I would take their first round pick in 2009, since it looks like they’re going to be really, really lousy. I can’t imagine they’d give it to us. Likewise, as I told the guys this morning, if we traded Quinn for a third-round pick and Brodie Croyle, you might as well just shoot me in the head.
And, as Craig points out,
The GetBradyNow people should really just focus on teaming up with these guys: http://www.firehermedwards.com. Until they rid themselves of this glorified high school coach, they are finished. Ask a Jets fan how valuable Herm Edwards is.
So, let’s make this interesting. I came up with a few, and polled the other WFNY writers for some trade ideas to make this work:
1. Brady Quinn for Derrick Johnson – I remember Browns fans that wanted DJ with our #3 pick in 2005. The Texas linebacker has under-achieved a bit in Kansas City, falling far short of some of the projected “Second Coming of Lawrence Taylor” predictions. But, he still has more on-field experience than Quinn and might be a decent addition to our depleted line-backing corps.
2. Brady Quinn + Romeo Crennell for Dwayne Bowe + Herm Edwards – Teams just don’t swap coaches anymore! Here’s my thinking: Bowe gives us another decent receiver, and Edwards (Herm, not Braylon) becomes our secondary coach and teaches our safeties how to play an actually-serviceable cover-2. Plus, it gets RAC out of town, which should make some people happy.
3. Brady Quinn + 5 cases Imperial Dortmunder from Great Lakes Brewery for Glenn Dorsey – That Imperial Dortmunder is like 7.5% alcohol, and five cases should be enough for the Chiefs’ brass to get drunk enough to forget that they gave up the only good player on their defense to get their franchise quarterback.
4. Brady Quinn for the Royals’ Alex Gordon, Billy Butler, and Joakim Soria – Scott wins the “Thinking Outside the Box” Award for the morning. Butler and Gordon are young, cheap options at first and third base, respectively, and Soria has shown great promise as a young closer. Quinn would help sell tickets for the Royals, and probably could crack their starting rotation at this point. Or play in their outfield. Meanwhile, the string of Tribe World Championships would deflect attention from the fact that the Browns are a house of cards at the moment, and that trading their potential franchise QB for baseball players might not be the best move.
5. Brady Quinn + Mike Ditka + Wedding Dress for Entire Chiefs’ 2009 Draft Class – Craig reminded us of the 1999 Saints draft day move, and the photogenic genius that followed. The Chiefs are going to be picking top-5 in every round in 2009, and those picks would certainly help the Browns load up for a possible playoff run in 2009 and beyond. Meanwhile, the PR goldmine that would be Quinn, Ditka, and a wedding dress would help the Chiefs rally their fan base for the next decade.
6. Brady Quinn + Jared from SubWay for Branden Albert + The Kansas City Barbecue Society – Since Quinn’s SubWay chops are well known around these parts, why not package these two together to give the Chiefs their QB of the future, and give their fans some delicious SubWay goodness on Sundays? Meanwhile, we Browns fans get some additional O-line depth and some of the secrets to the famed Kansas City barbecue. Everybody wins.
I could do this all day. Let’s hear it, readers. Let’s exhaust all the options and give the Chiefs’ fans what they want.
6 Comments
How bout we switch it and give them DA. Really enjoyed the baseball players trade. Maybe we can pull something off like the CC-Milwaukee trade. We give them Brady for some crappy guys, and then the Indians get Gordan & Soria for some crappy guys. Just like we traded CC for nothing, then a month later got Mo Williams for amon ones (no D, no J) and the last tendons left in Joe Smith’s knees.
I think it might work, and hey, KC needs all the help they can get in either sport.
Lyon, your comment made something click in my head. We will work in cahoots with another city to alternate championships in sports.
One year, we collect all the baseball talent between two cities in Cleveland, and trade away any decent football players to the other city. Cleveland wins the world series and the other city wins the super bowl. The next year, Cleveland trades back all that baseball talent for the influx of football talent and they get to win the World Series and we get a Super Bowl.
It is GENIUS! So, which city should we make this arrangement with?
Brady Quinn + our injured DB (varies by week) for their entire secondary + the ability to play 12 guys all season.
think of the possibilites! First, Sean Jones goes to KC until he’s healthy, then comes back. By then, Eric Wright will inevitably be injured so he can go to KC as well. We get their entire secondary and the ability to play 3-4-5 instead of a 3-4-4.
How about Brady Quinn + the relinquishing to Herm Edwards of the rights to star in the Myoplex commercial for everyone on KC with the last name of Johnson? I would love to see Herm peer into the camera after his workout with that hard look on his face and then say “Now I’m done!”
@Craig: How about Boston?
I think Craig may be on to something… but we need to make it a three-city, three-sport deal. NFL, MLB and NBA. Here is the best scenario…
Cleveland: Indians; Browns; Cavs
Boston: Red Sox; Patriots; Celtics
Miami: Marlins; Dolphins; Heat
Obviously the Dolphins need the SB this year, so we get D-Wade and co. for anyone good on our NFL roster (K2?) so the Cavs can take the Finals. We also get Garnett & Pierce, but have to give up Cliff Lee, V-Mart, Sizemore etc…
2010, the Lombardi comes back to Cleveland. We’re a little thin at WR so we get Moss & Ginn, a couple lock-down DBs from NE and some good linebackers from MIA. LBJ and Mo Williams (yeesh) go to the Celts along w/ Garnett, Pierce and Z. The Marlins get… y’kno no one cares about the Marlins.
2011, World Series time. You get the picture by now…
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