Lions Trade Roy Williams to Cowboys
Today the Detroit Lions traded former first round draft choice Roy Williams to the to the Dallas Cowboys right before the trade deadline. Roy is in his last year of his contract and has pretty much stated that he would not resign with the Lions. Sure, the Lions could have franchised him, but that would mean that he would be paid the average of the top five wide receivers in the league. If the Lions were to do that, would Roy be worth the money spent on him. I don't think so.Let's see what he does now that he is with a new team. Don't get me wrong, he is an exciting and still young player, but the Cowboys sure paid a lot for him. To get him, the Cowboys traded their first-round pick, third-round pick, and a sixth-round pick in the 2009 draft. The Cowboys also get the Lions seventh-round pick in addition to Williams.
There is a huge risk with obtaining Roy since he has a huge ego. He has the habit of flashing the first down sign even though the Lions are routinely getting killed. He also complains about not getting the ball enough and demands the ball even though he is the number two receiver on the Lions. On the Cowboys team, he is still is the number two receiver behind Terrell Owens. If things don't go well for the Cowboys they will not only have to contend with TO mouthing off but now also Roy.
If thing go well then, when TO is getting double teamed it will leave Roy with single coverage and a good quarterback getting him the ball. Only time will tell and at least for the next five years we will have plenty of time to see if it was a good or bad trade for the Cowboys.
For the Lions who are in total disarray again, this should attract a top flight General Manager to the franchise as they will have 5 of the top 100 draft picks in next years draft. This should be a quick way to infuse additional talent to a team lacking in so many areas.
Listen to what Roy said on a Dallas radio station after being traded to the Cowboys
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posted by Fe Man at 7:39 AM
2 Comments:
I liked Roy. Yes his antics were getting a bit much, but it was because the team stunk around him. He played with heart and was just trying to fire up the losers that surrounded him. Did he whine because he didn't get the ball enough, yes, but that's because he felt he could do better that the rest. Looking at the outcome, he was probably correct.
That all being said, Dallas greatly overpaid for him. They could have gotten him much cheaper at the end of the season. Will he help their team now? I don't know. I picked the Cowboys to win it all at the start, but with the injuries as of late, I don't know.
Will the draft picks help the Lions at all? If prior draft performance is the benchmark then no way in hell. The Lions could get every pick in the draft and they would still take the wrong players. Is it even possible to take 252 wide receivers and running backs?
Ask me about Lions, Tigers and Bears....?
Lions aren't they golden haired tiger like animals that freely roam the wild plains of Africa and of Bears, HOooooooo. Boy. in spring they often are found right in my very backyard clawing at my bird seed feeder and if you ask me about Cowboys, well, you guessed it...a joke comes to mind. [Wink]
A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The rough and tumble cowboy looks at the young man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with e-mail on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy.
He watches the young yuppie man select one of the animals and the cowboy looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not? You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government," says the cowboy.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows, this is a herd of sheep.
"Now give me back my dog."
[How timely is this joke eh? Soft laugh. Given the state of our economic mess...]
Oh and since I'm on the subject of cowboys and hats and Mesaba, if nobody has told you this lately, your hat, I think it's rather fine.
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