what would it take to trade Tom Brady?

[ZeTurd]

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No u [censored] retard the pats wouldn't even think about trading brady for manning wtf are u thinking

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Lol,

Belichick, if he had the final word, would drop Brady in a heartbeat if offered a straight trade.

The real question is what it would take for the Colts to accept a Brady-Manning trade. I would think, in addition to Brady, they would require 1st to 6th draft picks, Stallworth, Welker, and half of the pats D for it to do the trick. Maybe.

[punkass]

I think this is a rare time where there is no price.

[Dids]

"a well placed shot to the knee"

[youtalkfunny]

This is the most asinine topic ever.

This place has turned into "Cheers", and Cliff just asked Norm to come up with a wild scenario where the best team the NFL has ever seen would voluntarily break themselves up.

Why give up just Brady? Why not throw in Moss, Bruschi, Seymour, and Samuel while you're at it? That way, you can be swimming in #1 picks!

[vhawk01]

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This is the most asinine topic ever.

This place has turned into "Cheers", and Cliff just asked Norm to come up with a wild scenario where the best team the NFL has ever seen would voluntarily break themselves up.

Why give up just Brady? Why not throw in Moss, Bruschi, Seymour, and Samuel while you're at it? That way, you can be swimming in #1 picks!


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You don't think they would trade Moss for ANYTHING?

Come on now, Manning>Brady, and Bellichick has demonstrated time and time again that he doesn't care about loyalty, he doesn't care about anything except having the best guys. If this trade were offered I guarantee you Bellichick would be the loudest voice campaigning for them to take it.

They probably still wouldn't. But it would be very, very interesting.

[gusmahler]

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This place has turned into "Cheers", and Cliff just asked Norm to come up with a wild scenario where the best team the NFL has ever seen would voluntarily break themselves up.


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The greatest hockey player of all time (Gretzky, just after winning his 4th Stanley Cup), the greatest baseball player of all-time (Bonds or Ruth, take your pick), and the greatest center of all-time (Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, take your pick), were all traded during their primes. Why is it so far fetched that the Pats would trade Brady?

[Dudd]

Football teams just don't trade stars, especially star quarterbacks. When was the last time a top 10 NFL quarterback was traded in his prime?

[youtalkfunny]

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This place has turned into "Cheers", and Cliff just asked Norm to come up with a wild scenario where the best team the NFL has ever seen would voluntarily break themselves up.


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The greatest hockey player of all time (Gretzky, just after winning his 4th Stanley Cup), the greatest baseball player of all-time (Bonds or Ruth, take your pick), and the greatest center of all-time (Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, take your pick), were all traded during their primes. Why is it so far fetched that the Pats would trade Brady?

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Gretzky: traded because player requested trade--that, and the team was in financial ruin.

Bonds: given up by small-market team who couldn't hope to afford him.

Ruth: we all know the story. He wasn't "traded", he was liquidated, for non-baseball reasons, by an owner who didn't give a damn about baseball.

I don't follow the NBA, so I've got to rely on Wiki for these:

Chamberlain: "In the following season, the Warriors ran into financial trouble. At the 1965 All-Star break, Chamberlain was traded...to the Philadelphia 76ers..."

"After that (1967-68) season, coach Alex Hannum left the Sixers to coach the Oakland Oaks in the newly-founded ABA. Chamberlain then asked for a trade, and Sixers general manager Jack Ramsay traded him for Darrall Imhoff, Archie Clark and Jerry Chambers. The motivation for this move remain in dispute. According to sports writer Roland Lazenby, a journalist close to the Los Angeles Lakers, Sixers owner Irv Kosloff broke a promise to hand over Chamberlain part of the franchise, infuriating the superstar,[11] but according to Dr. Jack Ramsay, who was the Sixers general manager then, Chamberlain also threatened to jump to the ABA after Hannum left, and forced the trade himself."

Abdul-Jabbar: "Although Abdul-Jabbar always spoke well of Milwaukee and its fans, after a few seasons he said that being in the Midwest did not fit his cultural needs and requested a trade to either New York or Los Angeles in October, 1974."

Shaq: "O'Neal made comments indicating that he felt the team's decisions were centered around a desire to appease Bryant, to the exclusion of all other concerns, and O'Neal promptly demanded a trade."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_abdul-jabbar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_o%27neal

To sum up: The answer to "What would it take to trade Tom Brady?" would be one or more of the following:

A. Team struggles financially, and cannot afford to keep him.
B. Team doesn't care about winning championships.
C. Brady goes Prima Donna, gets terribly unhappy and demands a trade.
D. Brady marries smoking-hot actress, requests trade to Los Angeles.

Well, I guess one of those isn't completely out of the question.

[Toro]

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This is the most asinine topic ever.

This place has turned into "Cheers", and Cliff just asked Norm to come up with a wild scenario where the best team the NFL has ever seen would voluntarily break themselves up.

Why give up just Brady? Why not throw in Moss, Bruschi, Seymour, and Samuel while you're at it? That way, you can be swimming in #1 picks!


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It is, but there is a story that over drinks Yawkey and Ruppert after drinking together all night had agreed upon swapping Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. When they sobered up in the morning the deal was cancelled. That deal btw would have been A+ for the Yankees since DiMaggio who was injury prone played only a couple more years.

[GBP04]

I'm not sure Brady is quite at the point yet where he is untradeable (though he is damn close). Take a guy like Jordan in his prime (say... '93) and I don't think there is anyway you can trade him. I think Bulls fans would have been mad if they got 15 top 3 picks for the next 5 years for him.