Lions: Please trade R. Williams!!!

lol jbw I listed Arizona right after the Colts.

Yes the Lions still have a lot of holes to fill at RT, RB, DE, MLB, and SLB. (They are done in the secondary I think.) The only way they should even consider trading Roy Williams is for a Hershel Walker type deal. Roy is a game changing type player who the Lions don't and shouldn't want to give up if they ever want a winning season. Any deal from Dallas would have to include both first round picks plus more.

On your side not. I like Brohm more than I like Stanton at QB, but I think the Lions drafting Brohm is a no-go. I think they are planning on Stanton as the Lions QB of the future unless he gets severly injured or falls flat on his face. After investing a 2nd round pick in him they need to give him the opportunity. The Lions won't be drafting any QBs this year. I just hope they surround whoever plays QB with some talent.

First off, I agree that trading Roy is not a good idea...but...

For those of you saying that we can slap the franchise tag on him next year, there are 2 things to consider.

1) The owners are very unhappy with the current CBA and the incredible rise of the salary cap. It's very likely that they will vote to negate it come November.

2) The results of said negation will have a dramatic affect on how the team does business next year. There are 2 likely results. A new CBA will come about, with more rein in on how much of league gross revenue goes into the salary cap. Such a move will drastically eat into that 27 million in cap room the Lions have coming up. If a new CBA is NOT agreed on, then 2009 will be an uncapped year. As far as how that affects Roy Williams, he will be stuck a Lion in that case because the eligibility for free agency goes from 4 years to 6 years, and he will have only played 5.

I believe there are very few players in the NFL that are untouchable when it comes to a trade. The majority are QBs and a couple of RBs. After that, you are just talking about price. Fullboat I believe most would agree that you can trade him but for what? Speculation at non-proven talent? Roy is a great player and has proven that he deserve a long term contract which he will be given an opportunity to sign with Detroit before becoming a FA and I believe he will sign because he has never expressed a wanting to be off the team.

I believe if you started moving him to other teams outside of Dallas you might find some support but only if you include players and possibly draft picks. Take Oakland for instance, I would give Roy to them for MLB Morrison and DE/DT Kelley and a 3rd, yeah unrealistic but we would need a lot. You can't trade your best player for a possibility at a good player and that is for teams that have proven that they can draft.

On the other hand we can play CJ, Furrey, and Mcdonald and be pretty OK at WR and fill in other holes on this team. We would need something special to make that happen though or confirmation that he will not sign again with us.

Oh and there are not 2 high paid Pro-Bowl WRs who play together? Rice and Clark, Irvin and Harper, Monk and Sanders, McCaffrey and Smith, Harrison and Wayne and there are plenty more all getting to at least 1 Pro Bowl and getting a Championship.

tpaulus,

Oops. You're right. I went back and looked at my sources, and it was 2010. I could have sworn they all said 2009.  I guess I should have taken my own advice and checked my facts before posting...lol.