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The Case For Trading the Farm for Lawrence/Fields

TylerDurden

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As I've said elsewhere, this team was a legit playoff team with competent QB play this year.  8 of our 10 losses were at the hands of bad QB'ing on the final drive with a chance to tie or win.  

That being said, imagine we trade whatever it takes to move up for Lawrence or Fields...  now, I know we'd have to have a willing partner, but let's assume we do.  If you give up, say 3 first rounders - imagine we are a perennial contender every year moving forward with that franchise QB in place that we acquired with said picks; first round picks in the late 20s, or God willing at 32, isn't nearly as much of a loss as the blanket term "first round pick" would imply, especially when the most important position on your roster is secured.

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Just now, Mr. Scot said:

Did you watch Fields against Northwestern?

I'd need to see a very significant improvement over that game before I'd be willing to trade up for him.

Yeah, I haven't seen that game, but I've heard it was horrible.  In all honesty, I think its possible he falls from the Top 3, so this is really a discussion about trading up for Lawrence.

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Just now, Proudiddy said:

Yeah, I haven't seen that game, but I've heard it was horrible.  In all honesty, I think its possible he falls from the Top 3, so this is really a discussion about trading up for Lawrence.

I'd trade up for Wilson before I'd trade up for Fields.

But to be honest, I'm not sure I'd trade up.

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10 minutes ago, Proudiddy said:

As I've said elsewhere, this team was a legit playoff team with competent QB play this year.  8 of our 10 losses were at the hands of bad QB'ing on the final drive with a chance to tie or win.  

That being said, imagine we trade whatever it takes to move up for Lawrence or Fields...  now, I know we'd have to have a willing partner, but let's assume we do.  If you give up, say 3 first rounders - imagine we are a perennial contender every year moving forward with that franchise QB in place that we acquired with said picks; first round picks in the late 20s, or God willing at 32, isn't nearly as much of a loss as the blanket term "first round pick" would imply, especially when the most important position on your roster is secured.

We've been within a score in the vast majority of our losses.

A better QB helps, absolutely, but the team just isn't good enough from top to bottom. 

Maybe we scrape into the Playoffs with a good QB this year, but we'd be one and done when we got there. 

We're not in a position to trade the farm for a single player. We need an injection of talent on this roster BADLY. The 2020 Draft was just the first step - we need two more Drafts like that to be a consistently good team. 

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