randomk1

No to everything in here.


Ride it out to the end. None of these bums or picks are worth his value.

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IllegalContact

teams who do that tend to have 'dark ages' for a long period of time......you get while the getting is good......brady is likely gone in 2 years tops anyway....how would you NOT do this?

I'd dare to say that brady would not make the browns a playoff team, so next year's picks would be pretty good, too.....

the league is changing.......7 of the playoff QB's are on their rookie deals.......5 of them were rookies or 2nd year guys.

you transition when the opportunity best presents itself......holding on for life until the bitter end will result in a slow painful death and then a fandom that will get to stare at a corpse for a long while until there is a rebirth

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KontradictioN

If that's the case, then the team will ride into the ground. Brady may want to play until he's 40/41 years old. And, who knows? Maybe he'll be able to do it at a high level like Favre did in '09. But history says that this type of scenario is a rarity. There are quite a few instances where I'd have to think long and hard about a Brady trade. Five years ago, I would have agreed with you. Today? Not so much.

And yes, to the earlier poster. Manziel all the way. The kid is a stud.

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Italian Patriot

Great topic.

My answer: as a fan, NO!

If I were BB, NO!

Why? Because I'm not sold about the 2013 draft class.

Post this topic next year.
And my answer, maybe, will be YES.

Why? Clowney, Manziel and McCarron.

CheeseMonkeys

Brady has taken us deep into the playoffs many times and has won 3 superbowls with us.

We were 1 Drive away in 2008, 1 play away in 2012 from winning a SB. If not for shooting ourselves in the foot in 2013, we'd be in another SB.

Trade for another ace CB/S or WR and resign either Welker or Talib... have a decent draft and the superbowl is as good as ours next year. Hell, even if we don't aquire anyone and at least resign Talib and draft a WR I can see us right back in the big game barring any major injury setbacks.

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Sicilian

This whole hypothetical is based on Mallett being ready, and I'm not sure how anyone can assume that. Even BB, who sees him in practice everyday, can't know how that will translate to consistent real action, never mind any clutch situation in the playoffs. Those kinds of intangibles are really hard to forecast. You can be 100% sure that Mallett has all the physical and mental tools to be a great QB, and he may still collapse in the postseason, you just don't know.

Not to mention, after a trade like that, there's going to be IMMENSE pressure on the kid. "Hey, you're the heir apparent to one of the greatest of all time. They even traded HIM to make room for you. So don't make us look foolish for it." Not to mention new pressure on BB. If he makes that trade and never wins a championship again, people will always wonder if 2-3 more years with Brady would have given him #4.

It's a gamble, and one I don't think they need to take. Brady can still play at a high level for enough years that Mallett doesn't have to be the replacement. I'm guessing Brady's heir is in college right now, not in the NFL.

Coog548

Hershel Walker trade plus some more picks would get me thinking about it.

MoLewisrocks

You know what Belichick says about fools who deal in hypotheticals...

If Ian ever does get around to re-writing the posting rules here, attempting to slip trade Brady threads into this forum through the hypothetical back door should be a ban worthy offense.

chasa

no, simply because any draft picks we recieve turn from pretty good first rounders, to pretty bad first rounders simply because brady will lead whatever team he is on to the playoffs.

Also this years draft is pretty weak.

Give it one more year, if brady doesnt get that 4th ring, i think at 36 its time to at least explore trades involving first rounders.

borg

Can Cleveland throw in a WR that doesn't get tackled by his own shadow?

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