CBS Sports ranked Russell Wilson to Broncos as second worst trade all time
March 6, 2024
As well as the Oilers trading us Largent at #6. We make the list twice for being on the lopsided winning side of two of the worst trades of all time!
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The worst trade has to be Denver using a pick on a coach that then released their QB while keeping $85M in cap money.
Spares us from the jimmy graham trade and jamal adams trade! Man did those two not pan out 🤕
Worst for Denver. The trade would be the second best in NFL history in the eyes of Seattle.
I don’t much like judging trades in hindsight because Shit Happens.
Judged just based on what we know at the time it wasn’t a terrible trade; you’re giving up a haul of picks for a guy who was perceived as a top-five QB. The Jamal Adams trade was significantly worse.
Shocked that the Watson trade is so low.
That’s just like, your opinion, man
Does that make our end of it the Best Trade of All Time ?
Deshaun Watson trade looking bad rn
It’s Geno’s stellar play that makes the trade so outrageously one-sided. Without Geno, we would’ve been tanking. The dead money is pretty bad. A team not owned by Walmart and coached by a d-bag like Payton would’ve made Russ work.
When it went down, we were trading a potential HOF QB for a bunch of draft picks and potentially solid players. The 2023 picks were assumed to be worse, because Denver was supposed to be good. Drew ended up unable to win the starting job and is a FA. Fant was solid but underused and a FA. Harris was cut. Only 3 of the draft picks we received have been productive so far, with the Hall pick looking terrible.
The Jamal trade is what set the roster back significantly that basically forced us (along with Russ’ contract demands) to trade Russ. If we still had the Jamal picks, we would be in a better place roster- and cap-space wise. We were lucky to get what we got from Denver. Yes Russ declined, but Hackett and Payton did nothing to help from day one. And the attempt to bench Russ midseason ahead of cutting him was some low-class shit.
If we didn’t have Geno, who was already on the roster, we’d likely be a 4th place team the last two years.
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The worst trade has to be Denver using a pick on a coach that then released their QB while keeping $85M in cap money.
Spares us from the jimmy graham trade and jamal adams trade! Man did those two not pan out 🤕
Worst for Denver. The trade would be the second best in NFL history in the eyes of Seattle.
I don’t much like judging trades in hindsight because Shit Happens.
Judged just based on what we know at the time it wasn’t a terrible trade; you’re giving up a haul of picks for a guy who was perceived as a top-five QB. The Jamal Adams trade was significantly worse.
Shocked that the Watson trade is so low.
That’s just like, your opinion, man
Does that make our end of it the Best Trade of All Time ?
Deshaun Watson trade looking bad rn
It’s Geno’s stellar play that makes the trade so outrageously one-sided. Without Geno, we would’ve been tanking. The dead money is pretty bad. A team not owned by Walmart and coached by a d-bag like Payton would’ve made Russ work.
When it went down, we were trading a potential HOF QB for a bunch of draft picks and potentially solid players. The 2023 picks were assumed to be worse, because Denver was supposed to be good. Drew ended up unable to win the starting job and is a FA. Fant was solid but underused and a FA. Harris was cut. Only 3 of the draft picks we received have been productive so far, with the Hall pick looking terrible.
The Jamal trade is what set the roster back significantly that basically forced us (along with Russ’ contract demands) to trade Russ. If we still had the Jamal picks, we would be in a better place roster- and cap-space wise. We were lucky to get what we got from Denver. Yes Russ declined, but Hackett and Payton did nothing to help from day one. And the attempt to bench Russ midseason ahead of cutting him was some low-class shit.
If we didn’t have Geno, who was already on the roster, we’d likely be a 4th place team the last two years.
How is Jamal not in there