FanPost

Did we really give up too much for RW2?

Consider this the opposite of the O'Reilly Factor. This is the Spin Zone. I'm going to spin this like the homer I am, because I don't think we got fleeced at all.

First of all, name one receiver coming out in next year's draft, that would have been available when we picked (anywhere between 20 and 32, hopefully 32 lol) that would be better than Roy? Roy will be better than ANY receiver, no matter how good they are, for at least 3 years. With very, very, very rare exceptions, WR is the most volatile position to pick early in the draft. They usually take awhile to develop, if they do at all.

I really think we would have gone WR in the first round next year. So I consider Roy to be that WR. So we are upgraded from anything we would have gotten in the first round.

I'll skip now to the 6th round pick. It wasn't even ours. Through the risk Jerry took, and the careful negotiations that he had with the Adam Jones trade, we got that pick back just yesterday when Adam was suspended. I still think he comes back this year, so we gain a troubled, but talented CB, and a 5th round pick, for our 4th round pick last year and the 6th round pick we sent to Detroit.

The 3rd round pick now. We traded our 3rd round pick in this trade. We still have the Browns' 3rd round pick, which will be higher than ours obviously. We traded last year's 3rd round pick for what ended up, through 2 other trades, Detroit's 4th rounder in 2009 and Cleveland's 3rd rounder in 2009.

So in the Spin Zone, the trades net us the following:

Trade 2009 1st round pick, 2008 3rd round pick, 2008 4th round pick, and 2009 6th round pick for:

Roy Williams, Cleveland's 2009 3rd round pick, Detroit's 2009 4th round pick, Tennessee's 2009 5th round pick, Adam Jones, and Detroit's 2009 7th round pick.

And to make things even better, while I'm on the subject of the trades...follow this train ride....

We trade Anthony Fasano and Akin Ayokdele for the Dolphins 4th round pick. We trade that pick to Oakland for their 4th round pick and their 7th round pick. We then trade Oakland's 4th round pick to Cleveland for their 4th round pick and their 5th round pick. With Cleveland's 4th round pick we select Tashard Choice.

We then trade Cleveland's 5th round pick and Oakland's 7th round pick for Jacksonville's 5th round pick. With that, we select Orlando Scandrick.

So we trade Anthony Fasano and Akin Ayodele for Tashard Choice and Orlando Scandrick.

Jerry Jones is my hero.

Another user-created commentary provided by a BTB reader.