Dolphins In Draft-Day Trade Talks With Dallas?

Hat tip to commenter JerryD for this nugget in yesterday's comments. PFT reports:

"ESPN's Chris Mortensen suggested during a special edition of Sunday NFL Countdown that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is eyeing the possibility of swinging a trade with the Dolphins for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2008 draft. Such a deal would allow the 'Boys to bag running back Darren McFadden, who played college football at Jones' alma mater of Arkansas."

According to Mortensen, any deal would have to include Cowboys RB Marion Barber:

"To make it happen, the Cowboys would have to work out a sign-and-trade deal before Barber gets a chance to ink an offer sheet that would force the Cowboys to match the terms or let him go in exchange for compensation. Thus, the safest bet for the 'Boys would be to tender Barber at the highest possible level, which would force any team that signs him to give up a first-round pick and a third-round pick. Those extra picks then could be used to sweeten the pot for the top spot in the draft."

Dallas now holds the 22nd and 28th overall picks in the draft. The thinking is, Dallas would give up Barber and those two picks for Miami's No. 1 overall. We know this because Jimmy Johnson's draft chart tells us so. It's like a magic 8 ball.

So the Dolphins would then hold two first round picks and the rights to Marion Barber. And some are suggesting that the framework for a trade is already in place, given that Jerry Jones has allowed Bill Parcells to scavenge pretty much his entire front office personnel and coaching staff, leaving him with nothing but Wade Phillps and Joe Simpson to run shit down there. It could be that Jones is keeping quiet as part of the potential deal.

I like the idea of a trade like that. Marion Barber helped me win my fantasy league this year, so clearly I'm qualified to say the man is a very good running back. Put him in the backfield with a healthy Ronnie Brown (or even a Ricky Williams or a Lorenzo Booker) and that backfield tandem might very well be the tits of the AFC (translation: tits are good). Add the two first rounders and the two second rounders we already have, and we're in prime position to nab four quality players in the first two rounds. Not too shabby. Will this trade happen? Eh, probably not.

But it's the kind of thing Parcells is capable of pulling off. So there's always hope. The NFL is his world and he likes to play the Conquering General.

I like to play Star Trek. I dress up in my Jean-Luc Picard outfit and walk around town barking out orders at total strangers, "Number One, you have the Bridge. I have to take a Number Two."

Comments

[vman]

So we would get Barber and The Picks? That would be cool.

Anyway it won't happen because we just hired the Anti-christ as an offensive assistant. See my last post under weekender.

It' become a big joke up here...
http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/
This was Dwebb's take over the weekend
"They're on a mission from god"

Fuck me....

[miamiboi84]

well just like everything else it's only a rumor and I refuse to believe in this one (because its so good) until more reports are released about this trade

Quote:"JAKE LONG OR TRADE!"

[DtmHeat]

If this trade went down, it would also mean that Ronnie Brown may not be recovering well from surgery and we need Barber as a security blanket.
I'm with VMAN: Jake Long or Trade!.0

[Gersom]

Tits are always good in my book. Hell, if the team starts winning, I'll even be happy to look at "man-boobs". The trade would be great. Dude, I think you may be right about it possibly being already in the works. Jones has been too quiet and too nice about his staff leaving for Miami.

[finfan1]

I would LOVE this trade. But it's waaay too early, which probably means it ain't happening. I hope at least the teams are in talks. If Jones wants McFadden as badly as everyone is saying he does, then other teams that want him also might jump in on the talks. Which would be very good for us. I guess we'll see.

[Coral Gables Dave]

For argument's sake, say this trade does go down. That leaves us with a logjam at running back. But it does give us leverage to swing more trades for more picks for anyone interested in maybe Ricky or even Lo-Book.

[Charlie]

Rumor mongering is awesome! But to me this thing sounds more complicated than trying to split the atom. And when things like this leak this early, it usually means it isn't true. Still...one can hope, right? Because damn if that doesn't sound like a great deal to me. Come on Tuna! Make it happen!

GO PHINS!

[Brian]

I like the idea where they trade Barber to someone else and then transfer one or more of those picks to us.

If the deal does involve Barber, then either him or Brown need to be traded. I understand you need more than one good running back, but we have that already.

And I actually could see this going through. For one because of the way Jones has left us pillage their staff .And secondly because McFadden is from Arkansas, like Jones, and Jerry Jones does what he wants. If he wants McFadden this will happen.

[Brian]

More on Chad Johnson to the Fins on PFT.

[finfan1]

I think a Ocho Cinco trade would be harder to pull off than the trade with Dallas. Johnson would have to make a stink about it in Cincy and then the teams would have to work something out, which won't be easy given that the Bengals will probably ask for A LOT in return. I guess it depends how bad Bill wants CJ-- if the feelings are mutual. So far the only one talking is Johnson.

[JerryD]

No doubt trading the pick will be a long running soap opera short on facts & long on rumor. The possibilities are endless, the probabilities small.

I say its doubtful as its a LOTTA VALUE, ya gotta be horny for said $30mil player.

Too me, someone in the Top 5 picks could easier swap up with their high-value pick.

Barber issue is that he will be a free agent, & replaced by McFadden. Dallas is short on trade-moolah with 2 low 1st rounds ... so they want to cash Barber's value toward the #1. If us, we'd just have to trade an RB for other value.

Heck, we need everything, so any scenario including the pick is good for us. Gonna sit back & enjoy the show.

Go Phins!! Cheers, JerryD