Chiefs are trading six-time Pro-Bowl WR Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins for five draft picks: a 2022 1st-round pick (No. 29), a 2nd-round pick (No. 50) and a 4th-round pick, as well as 4th- and 6th-round picks in the 2023 draft, sources tell ESPN.
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
At TE O'Shaugnessy, then Chessun, Conley and D'AT. Not counting Da'Ron Brown or other 7th round / UDFA guys that aren't coming to mind when it feels like only Pringle managed to contribute.
So late round flyer guys. Jehu Chesson and Cornell Powell etc
Conley (3rd round iirc) turned into a solid contributor who was able to parlay that into what is thus far a 7 year NFL career.
Originally Posted by staylor26:
Now THAT is perspective.
Also, it got them a SB win.
Yup.
As they say, 'flags fly forever'.
Someone in baseball a few years back said "the least valuable commodity in the sport right now is the present..."
They're absolutely right. Because once a deal gets made, suddenly everything you did WITH that person goes out the window. Which led to silly decisions whereby teams never considered what you could accomplish with a guy and how long that can reverberate. The Braves could've dealt Freeman at the deadline - they didn't. You think they give a shit? Flags fly forever fellas and they'd lose him as a FA 100 times out of 100 to secure that WS.
"We made a commitment to him! Tyreek should have taken less to stay!!!"
Dafuq? The hell you say - Tyreek Hill signed a 3 year deal in September of '19 and our commitment to him led to 3 straight AFC Championships, 2 Hunt trophy's and a Lombardi.
That tab is paid, y'all. Dudes contributions here were FAR in excess of what we paid him. And by paying him, we also managed to extend our team control over him to the point we could then deal him.
That commitment has been satisfied over and over again. We're WELL ahead of the game with Tyreek Hill, even had we taken him in the top 10 of the draft.
"Don't cry because it's over - smile because it happened..."
The 'Fuck Tyreek' crowd can sodomize themselves with a cactus. That shit is just stupid. [Reply]
3 hours later and this still fucking sucks. I am still of the belief you don't trade your core trio HOF players in their prime. I would have gladly traded Chris Jones to pay Hill and not thought a second about it. [Reply]
The worst part about this isn't that we traded Tyreek - it's all of the circumstances surrounding the trade, especially the timing. Tyreek has been underpaid for years and this obviously built up a lot of resentment. After it was clear he was out of legal trouble, veach should have re-done his contract to make him a top 5-10 paid WR. He let multiple years go by without fixing the injustice of Tyreek getting severely underpaid. Also, if you're going to trade him this off-season, that shit needed to be done before free agency so we could have signed a decent replacement 1 wr like Robinson and also get some decent dline free agents. Veach alienated a rare talent by letting him go underpaid for years and then screwed the team with this last minute desperation trade. Terrible timing and planning. [Reply]
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
It’s kind of crazy.
The Chiefs took a chance on a 5th round pick with a guy who had off the field concerns.
They then get insane production for that player for several years then flip him for 5 picks, including a first and second.
Lord only knows what those 5 picks will lead to.
Talk about getting some ****ing value out of a 5th.
Think about it that way. It’ll make you feel better.
This is honestly 100% the way we should be looking at it. We got him for a 5th rounder, had him for 6 years and paid him next to nothing to go to 6 Pro Bowls and win a Super Bowl. Now we dealt him for 5 draft picks and gained 20 million in cap space.
When you take the emotions out of it and look at pure value and the long term picture, this was absolutely a home run scenario. Something you dream of doing on Madden.
