re: Trade Proposed - Take or Say No? UPDATE: League Vetoed Trade

I posted this on our league message boards in rebuttal to the reason I was given (the other guy in the trade is named Joey):

One person posted "I thought it was a viable trade."

so I posted this.

All it takes is 4 people to say no. 5 people said no. It's all good and I'm not mad at anyone, but I will offer my reasoning as to why I thought it was fair:

My main reasoning for fairness is that Wilson is in a committee RB wise and has the fumbles (his coach benched him almost all of last year because of 1 fumble) while McFadden as injury prone as he is, is the focus of his offense, however bad it may be. There is risk involved in both players. I don't agree with people calling it unfair because we basically both agreed to transfer the risks from one team to another here. Wilson has a ceiling that is much lower than McFadden's because he is not the focal point of his team's offense and is not near as talented. McFadden, when healthy, has as much potential as anyone in the league, but his floor is much lower.

I downgraded at TE and DEF in the trade (both top 5 rated at their position) while Joey upgraded substantially in those areas. He had Mike Wallace to start at his WR#2 spot so he justified losing the injury prone Amendola in the deal as well while I needed a WR2 pretty badly. Lance Moore is a fine backup for bye weeks or injuries. The DEF, WR and TE are what sealed the deal for both of us.

I took on a much worse DEF in GB and much worse TE in Fred Davis to get access to Amendola and Wilson while Joey took those players to justify giving away Amendola and taking the chance on McFadden.

I understand the other side of the argument, but I saw this as a fair trade.






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