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Titolo: (NFL) These five trades are real deals

These five trades are real deals
By Adam Schefter
Denver Post Sports Writer
Sunday, October 21, 2001 - The NFL's trade deadline, sports' most boring
trade deadline, is Tuesday at 2 p.m.. Big deal - of which you can be assured
there won't be any.
Chances of a blockbuster going through are about as great as the Redskins
turning around their season and making some kind of spirited Super Bowl
charge.
Most teams do not offer fair market value. Just as many cannot absorb the
signing bonuses that would be accelerated against their salary caps if a
trade were made. Others are leery about strengthening a division or
conference foe.
And so Tuesday will come and go, and rosters essentially will look the same
then as they do today. Big deal. But here's another idea. Since no one else
in the NFL cares to, let's make a deal.
Five of them, in fact.
- Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith to the Baltimore Ravens for a
2002 first-round draft pick - The Ravens should have dealt their first-round
pick to Denver in the spring for Mike Anderson. To make up for it and to
enforce the Ravens' run to repeat, they should deal their first-round pick
to Dallas for Smith. Smith is 32, but he is running hard and strong. He ran
for more than 100 yards Monday night against Washington and is the NFC's
fifth-leading rusher. And the Cowboys don't even need him any longer.
Cowboys fullback Troy Hambrick is running harder and faster than Smith.
- Washington Redskins defensive end Bruce Smith to the Oakland Raiders for a
second-round draft pick - The Raiders have lost pass-rushing specialist
Trace Armstrong to a season-ending Achilles injury. But they still have the
chance to acquire a player who could be as formidable as Armstrong. Smith
is, by far, the most logical option. He could be yet another ideal Raider.
Older, slower, but still highly effective. And all it would cost Oakland is
a second-round pick. The Redskins would take almost anything for a
disgruntled player entering the twilight of his career. Smith cannot help
the Redskins this season; a 2002 second-round draft choice would be far more
valuable.
- Detroit Lions wide receiver Germane Crowell to the Denver Broncos for a
second-round draft pick - No matter how they've tried, the Broncos have been
unable to uncover dependable wide receivers besides Rod Smith and Ed
McCaffrey. But Crowell is proven. In fact, he is a player the Broncos
considered drafting in 1998, before the Lions snatched him in the second
round. In the Lions' past two games, Crowell has 14 catches for 190 yards.
The Broncos use that type of production right about now - assuming, of
course, Crowell can remember to get out of bounds in Denver.
- Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green to the New Orleans Saints for
a third-round draft pick - Redskins coach Marty Schottenheimer lost his
team - and all the games that have followed - when he dressed down the
ultra-respected Green during training camp. Not one Redskin who saw it
approved. The 41-year-old Green deserves to go out with one more run of
glory, not shame. And the Saints desperately could use Green to complement
cornerbacks Kevin Mathis and Fred Thomas, and to battle the St. Louis Rams
for the NFC West title.
- Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to Dallas for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones - A
trade akin to the Broncos dealing nose tackle Ted Gregory to New Orleans for
Saints nose tackle Shawn Knight - a swap of first-round busts. Only in this
deal, fans of Washington and Dallas should get future considerations.
Every one of these trades has certain elements that make a whole lot of
sense. But when it comes to trades, the league has stopped making any.

- Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to Dallas for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
ROTFL!!!! :-)))
--
Charlie Brown (a.k.a. Ciccio) ;-)
Dolfan #1 "in the salun"
G O   D O L P H I N S ! ! !
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"Any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment
to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has
worked his heart out in a good cause and lies
exausted on the field of battle, victorious."
Vince Lombardi
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 >- Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to Dallas for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
Eh no... Jerry ce lo teniamo... c'ha vent'anni di piu'... schiatta prima...
;-)
Aik