Quote:I'd be cool with the idea if our GM had any bargaining skill whatsoever. 

 

At this rate we could trade away all of our players and only wind up with a mass of 5th through 7th rounders. :angry:

 

Other teams have fire sales, like the Marlins in baseball and usually actually get a solid return that they then use for the rebuild....Caldwell gets pennies on the dollar for legit assets like Monroe. 

 

smh....

 

I'm going to repeat this until someone gets it.   The asset we traded was Monroe for 12 games.   Games we were not going to win anyway.   All the Ravens got for those draft picks was a 12 game contract.   Suppose we don't trade Monroe?   We're in the same position at the end of the year, except that we don't have those draft picks.   THAT WOULD BE REALLY STUPID.     Monroe signs with another team and you would be complaining about how we didn't trade him when we could have.  And guess what?   If we like him so much, we can still sign him at the end of the year!   BECAUSE HE'S A FREE AGENT!   Then we have him, PLUS the draft picks. 

 

So, don't trade him, and you have nothing.   Trade him, and you have some draft picks.   What is wrong with that?

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