Yeah, like trading for Brett Favre, a guy who was a total joke in Atlanta...it was riskier than a team offering a 1 for Manziel this off season. Or...maybe, offering Reggie White the richest contract in the history of the league. Favre's career ends with zero rings if not for the huge FA splash Ron made with guys like White, Jones, Dotson, Rison, etc.
Oh, how I miss having a GM with the swagger and brashness of Ron Wolf. Org had a totally different feel back then that I prefer so much more to what we have now.
Originally Posted by: uffda udfa
In another thread several implored you to compare Ted Thompson to a real live actual GM. Buckeye [AKA Nostradomus, LOL] correctly predicted in his Quatrainuffda #784 that you would evade.
The hate demonstrated for Ted Thompson is 100% irrational. Objective support for this hate cannot be found by comparing Ted Thompson to his contemporaries, so Ted Thompson is nonsensically compare to a GM outside of the salary cap era. The Cap [began in '94] had minimal affect on Wolf's roster decisions and those minimal effects manifested no earlier than 98-99. Wolf built his team w/o constraints of the cap; bonus money of contracts signed before Dec. '93 was exempt from the Cap [And both Favre and White signed long contracts in 93]; in 94 Wolf had zero dead money to deal with and minimal amounts over the next few years; the cap went up 50% in first 5 years and doubled by 8th year [TT has never enjoyed Cap leaps anywhere near this amount]; Wolf didn't have to pay as much for FAs [there was more collusion and most agents were "trained" in this collusive environment and were just beginning to learn how to max deals for their clients; EG it would have been impossible for House to get 4.3% of a team's cap given his injury and playing history]; etc.
-Wolf would have NEVER traded a 1st round pick for Graham.
-Wolf would NEVER paid 6% of his cap for Graham.
-Wolf would have never traded a team leader and top 3 center; especially having terrible players as BUs and cause 2.2M in dead money for Graham.
But Schneider gave up all 3-if this isn't the dumbest trade in football history, it's in the top 10 and the other 9 send it Christmas cards.
Here's what having a degenerate gambling GM will do:
SEATTLE DEAD MONEY:
2014: 19.9M [Bryant, Clemons Farwell, Carpenter [reneg], Rice, Miller[reneg], Harvin]
2015: 10.9M [Harvin, Unger , Miller]
Ted Thompson dead money 2014-15: $5M.
If Schneider had to pay Wilson his worth; Seattle misses playoff in 2014, the purge is even greater in 2015 and he's run out of town by an angry mob carrying pitchforks and torches.
PS: There is no comparison between '92 Favre, who'd run through a brick wall for his team or any teammate and the self-entitled me first pissant 2014 Manzell...NONE!