Cousin, I have thought about Fitzgerald before I read your post as I am sure many have. Great idea and you know there will be those who torch you. So what. I got torched for suggesting Moss before that Raiders trade and I got "it will never happen, you're an idiot, he's all done" about two years prior. Regardless if you think if it was good or bad now, I never enjoyed watching another Pats WR with maybe the exception of Troy Brown (tie).
The concept would be hard for the Cardinals F.O. to swallow. But....if we were to play this out on what could or could not be done (remember all you anal big shot posters, this is done for fun and speculation) I might throw in a block buster because we know the Cards need a shake up and the Pats had that done this week already.
You know that the Pats F.O. and the "smarter than thou, Kool ade drinking posters" on this forum will swear that Tate is Jerry Rice and Price is the new Lynn Swan. In actuality Chad Jackson made a few plays in year one and then we got?......Chad Jackson. BB and his FO do not have a great track record drafting WR , hence Moss, Welker, Stallworth etc. OK Branch was decent in the beginning but turned out to be a greedy little so and so (and you guys want hims back with one leg?).
We have problems that Bill has now created at WR (YES IT WAS A MISTAKE), corner rushers and OLB. I still see a glaring problem in the secondary. We will take our lumps at CB but I see Safety issues that won't help those kids. I am sorry, Merriweather is not smart, Sanders is regressed from an already less than stellar starter role and yet there is a glimmer of hope out of Chung if he got some help.
The Cards are rebuilding when they lost Warner and cut the non effective Leinart. They need a QB desperately and the 2011 Draft has some better talent than the last few years. But after that the need some new blood as well. One rookie QB addition is not enough. They need a core of kids to build on in 2011.You are right the Bidwells are cheap. Kids make more sense.
Let's play this little experiment out. We need Safety help. Experience and skill are not Merriweather and Sanders. We need a WR. We have many Draft choices and the success rate is 17% in that venture so perhaps two will be impact of our first eight picks in 2011. I do not trust Draft choices. We have had two decent draft classes in the last seven years. Not great odds. Some of our best Teams were constructed of Trades, F.A. and other teams discards (UDFA).Also (see 2009 Saints please). Draft choices are important but not the only or best way to be successful.
I would like to see us get Fitzgerald who is trapped in AZ without much hope in the immediate future. The other guy I think could backbone this defense ala Rodney Harrison, is 30 year old Safety Adrian Wilson (about when we got Rodney). He is a 220 LB big Safety that BB likes because the can move him up. He is very smart and still very quick. He already has a sack and two interceptions He understands the position. His contract has just been redone but it is manageable.
Here is the package that I (that means that is my thought) would like to see.
Mankins (Wisenhunt prefers pounding the ball as when he was with the Steelers and Faneaca is about done and will be 34 next year), Merriweather and our 1st rounder of 2011 for Fitzgerald and Wilson. They get two Pro Bowlers who are young former first rounders and we get two Pro Bowlers who can help our Team now because our Defense has no leader really and TB would have a perfect WR Team guy for the grand finale of his career. The Fitzgerald money will free up the Cards to sign Mankins. Mankins is on the left coast where he wants to be. His anal pore agent might be ok with this deal.
We have already said that Fitzgerald fits the Pats mold. Wilson fills the Rodney void and would be a great mentor to Chung. I'd rather ship Sanders but we would not get anyone to sniff at him and some here would cry more tears if he left than Moss.
I know Fitzgerald is the face of their franchise but they need this change as much as we could use those two. They are the two players that could make a difference in 2010 and beyond. They could use another CB. How about Wilhite or Wheatley as the "throw in".
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