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with Deion Branch in Seattle, I have a few rules in life and one of them is to never trade anything with Bill Belichick. If Bill Belichick is selling you a bill of goods, that means that bill of goods probably won't help you. You don't want to call Bill Belichick when he's trying to get rid of a player. He usually knows why he's getting rid of a player Deion Branch traded one

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from the Patriots to the Seahawks after the split when he was the Super Bowl MVP in 2005. That seemed strange. This was a trade. disastrous for the Seahawks branch he was traded to Seattle for their first round pick in 2007 Deion Branch was a good receiver he wasn't worth the first round pick I mean they gave up a great pick and he had a halfway decent year in five seasons , do you know why it was a great trade during the season?

He had nothing to do with what the Seahawks cut. He has everything to do with the Patriots. They didn't make you see that 2016, but they kept Deion Branch if I found a way to keep him on that list. I think there's a good chance that 2016 could finish that job. They can beat the Colts. they can go to the Super Bowl and beat the Bears and you know, the Super Bowl. Bowl for Tom Brady if Deion Branch was catching Patriots passes all year instead of, you know, Shay Caldwell and Doug Gabriel, if Bill Belichick could get a mulligan for a trade later in his career, maybe That's why Deion Branch was a Super.

Bowl MVP and he was good, so in your mind he was a product of the Patriots system. Initially I thought he was just shocked by the system, it turns out it was a lot more and you go back and talk to Tom Brady. I'll talk about how in sync I was with Deion Branch. Grady from the beginning took TDM and developed a very good chemistry at the beginning. I think if it weren't for the injury he would have had much more success in Seattle. It was fantastic. The player is not all that good, but he is a fantastic player.

He just got hurt, hurt his knee and was never the same player after that, so I think he's probably going to get a little bit unfairly maligned and then the Patriots end up getting him back for free. Trent Richardson to the Colts, when Trent Richardson was traded everyone said the Browns were making a big mistake, how can they trade the centerpiece of him after just one season in one game and do it two games into the season? Brown fans had the right to say, oh God, no. Here we go again, I thought the Colts just stole something from these poor Cleveland Browns.

There was no doubt about Trevor Richards and everyone going into that draft. One man said he's the next Adrian Peterson. Mike Mayock says it great. Cosell says so. I ranked him as possibly the best player in the draft. Did I say that out loud? Not for me. I feel like I have a lot to prove in this league and I finally started with a big jump with problems. he's a great leader and touchdowns from a rookie Jim Brown was a psychic he thought Trent Richardson was an average running back he put Trent Richardson next to Andrew Luck and threw the championships right it just didn't work out they lost the first round pick they could have used and for two years Trevor Johnson gave them very little, it's like those horror movies where the lights go on in Dracula, you know, partly fake, it didn't exist anymore, it turned to dust, it didn't look anything like Alabama, It looked slow.

It looks stiff. I'm sure you're going to have a montage of him missing open running lanes while running toward his center on no-play card ads. I remember the playoff game that year. Craig Richardson got a touch and lost the ball. ball that sums up the career of Trent Richardson and Indianapolis, nothing went right for that guy. I'm surprised the Browns actually pulled this off and didn't trade for him. It's great that they got a first-round pick for Trent Richardson, but if you look at what Cleveland did with the pick they got on Johnny Manziel, this is the last lose-lose trade in NFL history, classic Browns , they don't really do anything with it, get the first round pick and then waste it on Johnny Manziel, the biggest lesson there is that every

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a homeless person tells you to draft someone, you should get a second opinion from another homeless person just to make sure the season trade Palmer to the Raiders Carson signed a contract, he committed to gave his word, we trust his word, a painful, painful loss for the Cincinnati Bengals, we trust his commitment, he he resigned, he resigned from the Bengals, my God, when you say, hey, I'm going to retire or I'm going to trade, you can't really bring a guy back.

After that in Kenya, I smelled the top of my hand two days ago and thought I had put it in the toilet that I needed to get out of there. It was a little toxic for all parties. I'm from Cincinnati. I totally understood where Carson Palmer was. Coming from, I'll sit on my couch, I don't need to play for the Bengals, there are frustrating organizations, I totally understood where you're coming from, usually the NFL trade deadline comes and goes a couple months here and there, but Oh. What a blockbuster on this platform. Palmer lasted the first six weeks of the 2011 season before the Bengals sent him to Oakland for a first and a second.

Al Davis had just passed away losing the man he approached. You know, Hugh Jackson was basically running the entire team. Jason Campbell goes down, he thinks they're a wild card team or possibly going to win the AFC West, so he swings for the fences and sends two draft picks to Carson Palmer. Carson Palmer did not want to play in Cincinnati and he fulfills his wish. I played in Oakland. I made better

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in my high school cafeteria like they gave up a lot for this guy. A big accent made a bold move and I told everyone.

I think it's the biggest trade in NFL history. I say it was the biggest trade in American football, but I wasn't saying that because of the trade. I was Santa because I wanted to give our team hope, although only eight of his twenty-four starts and so far black, less than two years later, both he and Hugh Jackson were elsewhere, people forget that he had an elbow injury for two or four years where he had Tommy John surgery he probably should have had it wasn't the same pitcher that now has issues with the trade it wasn't Carson it was the rest of the Raiders I think Hugh Jackson for some The grade He was right, it was a very good training.

Carson Palmer, as has been shown, had a lot of gas in his tank and look what Carson Palmer has done since maybe Hugh Jackson wasn't so crazy, that's what it's really about. man that's what the Raiders do, not the best trade but I think it was a pretty good trade from Bobby Lane to Pittsburgh or Detroit fans. You know, you can always think about where it all went wrong and for Detroit fans, the Bobby Lane trade is where it all started to go wrong, the legend of this off-season Bobby Lane trade has always fascinated me. I mean our people in Detroit who to this day still think it's almost like a Bambino curse, Bobby Lane says you won't win. another playoff game for 50 years is the NFL equivalent of Babe Ruth taking his shot, put a pox on Lions fans Lions fans under 50 don't believe this ever happened Bobby Lane and the Lions won three championships in eight years and then they're tractable and there you have it, it's the curse of Bobby Lane.

Bobby Lane was so angry that the Lions had the audacity to trade him to the Pittsburgh Steelers, as legend says on his way out, it says this franchise will never win a championship in 50 years in those 50 years the Lions won one playoff game they lost 10 the final year of the curse 2008 the Lions enter 16 procedural morale from Detroit and two draft picks but not everyone cursed the trade Bobby lady I like this trade because in the When Bobby Lane leads the Lions to their best era in the history of the franchise, they were the team of the mid-1950s.

Bobby Lane as the playboy quarterback, has taken his linemen out drinking every night, is on top of the NFL world, goes to Pittsburgh and the impact there . Pittsburgh says no, we're good, we're straight, we've got Bobby Lane, we're going to cut Johnny Unitas, we're going to cut Len Dawson as Hall of Fame quarterbacks because the Steelers are set at quarterback with Bobby Lane, Bobby Lane had one type. of leadership that was partly on the field and partly in the locker room and partly in the streets at 11 at night I said Bobby how are you now I said Jesus is that since last night a couple of part

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rs Bobby Lane, yes, there could have been drunk a lot, been on a bender and had Pickers from town late into the night with the coaches, man when you're winning three titles in eight years, you don't know you've got Matt Dillon company, keep Bobby Lane the biggest possible time.

You look back through history and you see names like Greg Landry, Gary Danielson, Eric Hipple and Rodney Peete, and we can go on and on, and this is an organization that hasn't recovered from a six-season trade, trading Roy Williams to Dallas . The trade will be on Jerry Jones' tombstone. I loved that he came out of Texas. I thought he was going to be a great player. It was long. He was tall. He was athletic. He could run. I thought Roy Williams would be a superstar. Roy Williams caught 28 touchdowns in his first four seasons in Detroit, but in 2008, en route to a 16-year season, the Lions sent him to Dallas at the trade deadline, the Cowboys acquired Lions receiver Roy Williams , and the seventh round draft pick in exchange for the first third and sixth round picks was like bringing home the hero of the state of Texas and it seemed like a match made in heaven Dallas like the stars Jerry Jones like the stars, well, we're excited because it brings Roy's winners back to Texas, but it gets him.

On the other side of Terrell Owens, this is Jerry Jones' last trade in Dallas. You're really asking me what Jerry Jones was thinking. Roy Williams said I'm happier to be a Dallas Cowboy than I was when I bought my first bike. It will be an expensive deal for the Dallas Cowboys and the photos they pay Detroit and the money they paid Roy Williams, but the bottom line is that Roy Williams will be tied to the Dallas Cowboys when they move into their new stadium for the next five years. I can buy ten thousand bytes with the contract that Roy Williams got.

I wish we could exchange what they. I don't even remember being that happy when I got my first bike. It raises eyebrows when a franchise gives up its best receiving player, sort of. Dion did it for the Cowboys and Charles Haley did it for the Cowboys. They thought Roy Williams would do that for the Cowboys in his era and lead them to a Super Bowl. He put it on top. It's not often that you leave Detroit and things get worse in the trade. For Roy Williams, giving up all that and paying him that money was the biggest mistake Jerry Jones had made in ten games after our sixth trade.

Roy Williams averaged less than 20 yards receiving a game in two and a half years in Dallas, surpassed one hundred yards receiving only twice in the Andy earned while maintaining because the miles often come when he is heard and has the game of his career against the Kansas City Chiefs, then Roy Williams never gets his job back and that's the end of the Roy Williams era in Dallas was a short-lived Tom and Jerry cartoon, trade number five of the season, John Hagel to the Packers. John Hado was an AFL quarterback who put up very good numbers for that era under Sid Gillman, they aired him out.

John Hagel is the guy you always see on Lance Alworth's highlight reels, Dolma's deep ball was 21, which was such a cool quarterback number. He went to the Rams in the early 70's and in 1973 he had a very good season, the Rams won the NFC. West Hayden was a big reason. Why was it that when we got to the mid-70s, when Bart Starr finished playing in the early 70s, the Packers were left without a roster of quarterbacks that included names like Hunter Scott, Jerry Taggi, Jim Delgado and Jack Concannon? Head coach Dan Devine was desperate to acquire a legitimate quarterback this was Dan Devine at the end of his rope.

I am going to be fired. I'm going to go to camp. I'll get this zig any day now. Then what do I do? I don't have a quarterback. Can I get a quarterback, where can I get a quarterback? Oh yeah there's John Adel, he was good 12 years ago and would ever give up a million picks for a 34 year old quarterback. You don't normally pay for 35 year old quarterbacks with five draft picks, it's just a little expensive, you know, if you go to the supermarket and you know the cantaloupe costs 399, they probably won't pay you 120 dollars for it and for the man most responsible for damn Devine was without a doubt a seed of the climax and if I have a statue After Lombardi, that is a question I have, what was common at that time was to exchangedraft picks because there were coaches who believed draft picks were almost worthless, teams that did this routinely ended up at the bottom of the standings and very often it was because they were bringing in a 30 something quarterback to play a game for which they were best suited 10 years ago.

He did, as you can imagine, it's a disaster, it lasts a season and a half and Green Bay and he went to Dan Devine. The terrain is terrible for the next ten years and he gets the golden parachute from it. Notre Dame number four on the season. He switches the leash from Marshawn to Seattle. Marshawn Lynch in Buffalo is one of the most interesting. He just didn't want to be in Buffalo. He had a lot of good football why would you trade Marshawn Lynch. That was a trade that had to happen because they already had Marshawn Lynch.

They had Fred Jackson, who was coming off a thousand-yard season, and then they drafted CJ Spiller, who was 24 years old. He had been in professional baseball, had already had a thousand-yard season, and you knew he was going to be great somewhere. Buffalo received a fourth- and fifth-round pick from Seattle and Lynch packed his bags for the Emerald City. For whatever reason, there are times when a team's hometown player just had this perfect intersection. Marshawn Lynch became the heartbeat of Seattle when you walked into that locker room and talked to every player on any of those teams that They were seeing the same thing Marshawn Lynch drives his bus, he is the beating heart of the team, he is the one who gave us the toughness that we have and we only go as far as he takes us, it is one of the great

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in NFL history because The Seattle Seahawks built the championship team basically around Marshawn Lynch and his identity on offense, giving up a fourth and a fifth.

For a guy who was basically the centerpiece of his team for several years, it's rare for a player to change the culture of a franchise that much and not specifically, especially if you're not a quarterback, that doesn't happen a lot. going to Seattle was the best thing Marshawn Lynch did because this is where his wonderful character blossoms and then he has that great historic run, probably the most memorable playoff touchdown run in history, the Beast quake that was the only thing he did . for the Seahawks it would have already been a lopsided trade, it was an incredible trade by the Seahawks, the tickets are not so much a steal, I mean it's a grand slam in three consecutive at-bats, it was one of those deals, look at it and when it happens, you just kind of shrug your shoulders a little bit and think, okay, maybe the Korean Summer Season trade Mike Haynes makes the Raiders, or the Raiders had to be throwing a party after the trade was consummated, just win, oh, by the way, you're going to Let's say you're going to have Mike Haynes here and Lester Hayes there, we're just going to have to block the corners, which was an iconic trade for them in their history in 1983.

The Pro Bowl quarterback, Mike Haynes, was holding off the Raiders, pounced but it was almost too late. so the exchange of hands was not filed before the deadline, so it ended up in court, a big surprise. Raiders NFL and Cortana, who was a guest who loved the Raiders in the '80s. Many of his big stories involve Court. I'm from Los Angeles and so on. I had the opportunity to go home and play in front of my family and friends, the city I grew up in, the Raiders won their day on the field and added a future hall of fame if you are looking for an idea to play that is not I, of course, by size would be Mike Haynes.

Mike could have been a pro at wide receiver, but that's how good he lets you go to sleep and think you're going to get away, but the next day you know coming back is upon you. He was still in the Prime of him and would have several more Pro Bowl seasons after this first day. I saw it in El Segundo. You came in. I said you know Mike and we can do this, but you'd be dreading that plan for the Raider. We're going to the Super Bowl in the '80s The Raiders were prophets Payne's future quarterback partner predicted the trade eight months before it happened Lester's first pro ball I guess that's where we first met and he told me: " You're going to be a Raider." I've talked to Stars and he's predicted that you'll wear silver and black and sure enough, later that year I'm a writer.

I said, do you remember you're going? You can't beat destiny. It's meant for you to be here. He was. able to step in and play at a high level immediately the price was a first and second round pick the result was possibly the best quarterback duo in NFL history when the Raiders got my sticks they said oh my gosh, I got it we have it all. him on the other side Lester, you can forget about anyone when Hannes hooked up with Lester Hayes on the farm, you know a great cornerback tandem and not many teams like to face the Raiders in that era, are you going to put those guys in the boundaries?

Don't go off the line of scrimmage, that was fun theater, fun theater, watching those guys play, their destiny was completed in January, three months after the trade, the Raiders were champions. Think the 83 Redskins are like the 98 Vikings or the 2007 Patriots. with Brady Welker and the loss and the Raiders completely shut them down and it was because their trading corners cannot be underrated. I don't know if the Raiders won that Super Bowl without my number two case of the season, coaching Eric Dickerson to Indianapolis. I don't think when they rank the Dickerson Trigg they're not looking at what happens next, they're talking about the shock value of the moment that's easy to forget now, but hit the first five years with the Rams, people acted like they were going to do it .

He challenges Jim Brown as the greatest running back of all time. He sets the single-season rushing mark. Everyone thinks Dickerson will be the best ever and seeing him get traded makes him available. I think that's what surprised everyone. Eric Dickerson was different. type of running back the NFL had seen, the entire team, not just the offense, revolved around Eric Dickerson, every Eric Dickerson was about the money. I asked their labs to pay me the same salary now paid to successful brokers as soon as Vice President John Shaw agreed to extend my contract for three years. I would join the Rams in training camp.

He was a phenomenal and dedicated player, but the most important thing was the money. I'm happy to play with Dickerson. On his way to the Hall of Fame, Dickerson just wants to be paid more money and the Rams are tired of hearing all his grapes, so the Colts need to take a dip in Indianapolis, this is what Ron Meyer and that franchise felt What they needed. to get attention, Eric Dick hasn't told me that they wouldn't try to send him to Siberia. Well they could, they couldn't, so they found Indianapolis, which was an NFL signing at the time, it was Siberia and it consisted of three. teams and ten players remains one of the biggest trades in NFL history one of the most successful trades in NFL history there were ten components Eric Dickerson Cornelius Bennett and a group of other players the Indianapolis Colts need to get on map number one number two, they had two big fans in a basketball town in a basketball state, any reason to believe this football team was more than just a fly-by-night operation run on very little money, enter Eric Dickerson, the Colts became relevant and Dickerson became the face. of the franchise and at first it seems brilliant for the Colts Eric Dickerson and things change for the cult franchise Eric Dickerson gave them national credibility immediately that trade is huge for this city because it put us on the NFL map Eric Dickerson did what he was traded to do it in Indianapolis he ran a thousand yards the year they got him he ran for over 1,600 yards the next year and people need to remember the Monday night Halloween game of 1988 and the Russian crosshairs fried 157 159 yards four touchdowns and played one series in the third quarter there are a lot of players who were great players in two different cities who were Hall of Fame caliber players in two different cities the number one in the season traded Herschel Walker to the Viking we were able to make this deal said one owner is a major train robbery yeah I don't even think there is a debate here on what has to be the best trade Herschel Walker trades have to be number one he is a dynasty creator easy pick for number one.

I don't think there is another contender. I remember the time when I think a lot of people thought the Cowboys were crazy for doing this, while the Cowboys might be on their way to the toilet, it has to be number one because even today, almost 30 years later, people still say the Herschel . The Walker Train will remind you of the Herschel Walker Train. You don't want it to be the Herschel Walker trade. The Herschel Walker trade is a cautionary tale. It's a lesson to learn. It's a campfire story among general managers across sports. The Dallas Cowboys show it to everyone.

After that, the value of charts now everyone treasures their charts because no one wants to have Herschel Walker's reverse trade. It was terrible in Minnesota. He was a terrible player in Minnesota. It was a terrible adjustment. His talents were not transferred in any way. What the Vikings were doing is not only horrible from the Vikings' point of view because they traded away all these pieces that helped them get to an NFC championship game just two years earlier, not only that Herschel Walker in his first two plays as Viking looked like he was the God said they had changed so it was called off, but everyone says, oh my God, and then his next play he touches the ball here comes Herschel on second and five and then from there on Go ahead, it was nothing, it came to a good place, this is an outstanding outstanding exchange regarding the future of the Cowboys everyone loves Herschel Walker one of the great athletes of our lifetime but to get what they amounted to 11 or 12 lengths and some of them number one picks in exchange for Walker Dallas will receive a number one draft man plus six conditional draft picks over the next three years, including two first-round picks, three second-round picks and one third-round pick, a talent incredible for those 92 93 95 world champion Dallas Cowboys that he recovered and was able to turn around. them for conditional picks and it was a myth, it was during Woodsen, yes, the problem is that the Vikings are bad for that, they build a dynasty on the other side of the ledger and there has never been a trade so clear and so clean. in terms of building one franchise and sinking the other, here's this trade that equals three Super Bowls for the Cowboys, you can never say that in NFL history outside of this net trade changed NFL history, no doubt , because the Dallas Cowboys are one of the great dynasties. of all time and it just doesn't happen without that trade without all the draft picks they got