Kansas City is trading its first-round pick Thursday night, along with three other picks in the 2021 and 2022 drafts, to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl OT Orlando Brown and one pick in the 2021 draft and another in 2022, per sources.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Um no. It's a right tackle. And they just got another rookie contract for another 4 years.
They weren't going to be able to re-sign him. He wants to be a left tackle, told them to trade him if he wasn't going to play left tackle, and they didn't want to let him walk or sit out and get nothing for him.
How hard is that to understand?
They weren't "okay" trading him. They didn't WANT to trade him but they felt obliged to honor his wishes and also not throw the baby out with the bathwater in regards to their locker room.
Going from an all pro RT to a rookie RT you took at 31 wouldn't be a downgrade? I'd imagine it would be in the short term and likely long term as well.
Isn't everyone talking about RT being just as important as the LT? [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
He'd played RT his entire tenure there until this year. You think he's sitting out if they tell him he's the RT?
Yes, I do, which is why the Ravens traded him. The man wants to be a left tackle.
He's spent his lifetime with the Ravens, as his dad played for both the Browns and Ravens, who continued to coach and work with the Ravens until his untimely death. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Yes, I do, which is why the Ravens traded him. The man wants to be a left tackle.
He's spent his lifetime with the Ravens, as his dad played for both the Browns and Ravens, who continued to coach and work with the Ravens until his untimely death.
Why hadn't he sat out previously when asked to play RT? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
So yeah, the Ravens made the Chiefs better. Well the Chiefs made the Ravens better too. But no one wants to acknowledge that.
You're not thinking about this correctly.
The Chiefs are already better than the Ravens. The Chiefs biggest hole that would be holding them back for the next several years is LT. The Ravens went and gave the Chiefs a potential Pro Bowl LT of the future.
There is no position on the Ravens nearly as important to their team as LT is to the Chiefs. They're just not built that way. Yeah, they need more talent at WR, but they could have prime Jerry Rice and the improvement he would bestow upon the Ravens with Lamar at QB still isn't to the level that OBJ can elevate our offense.
Yes, those picks will make the Ravens better, but OBJ will make the Chiefs better-er. It's all relative. [Reply]
PFF was on 610 again bad-mouthing this trade. According to these "experts" Veach's way to build a team is not sustainable and we will be in BIG TROUBLE in 4- 5 years!!
Sorry guys, enjoy all the Super Bowls now, because in a half-decade or so- we will be devoid of talent and in Cap Hell!!
It is completely irresponsible to try to win now with one of the best O lines in the NFL to protect our QB. The super-secret insider data PROVES IT!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Halfcan:
PFF was on 610 again bad-mouthing this trade. According to these "experts" Veach's way to build a team is not sustainable and we will be in BIG TROUBLE in 4- 5 years!!
Sorry guys, enjoy all the Super Bowls now, because in a half-decade or so- we will be devoid of talent and in Cap Hell!!
It is completely irresponsible to try to win now with one of the best O lines in the NFL to protect our QB. The super-secret insider data PROVES IT!!
Every year the cap is supposed to keep the Chiefs from making moves and yet they continue to do so. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
Why hadn't he sat out previously when asked to play RT?
Because he was a young player trying to make a career? He got his chance at LT and proved he can be a very good LT. Why would he go back after that? [Reply]