Eagles and Bills: Major Trade

[KillerKat]

Bills gonna Bill

[Bozarden]

Kiko had a great 4 game stretch to begin his career followed up by a full season out with an acl tear and all of a sudden he is the second coming of kuechly??

People are acting Like mccoy is as old as deangelo. He is less than two years older than kiko! as if he wouldnt have been hit if he had played longer in College. Mccoy averaged more rushes in College than the nfl so there goes the mileage argument...

bills get a 27 year old superstar and wins this Trade, regardless of cap implications.

[Harris Aballah]

I'm sorry, but unless someone's got a video of McCoy beating his under age gf with a wooden switch in an elevator? I cannot see how this trade even gets brought up.

[Panthers8969]

Heard they were going to release McCoy and just went around seeing what teams would offer them for him.

[OneBadCat]

I think it's a smart move for the Eagles. RB's don't last that long and you don't want to throw more money at him when you could just as easily trade him and address a need. Then fill his role with cheaper options. 

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

Awesome article here:  http://grantland.com/the-triangle/lesean-mccoy-kiko-alonso-trade-philadelphia-eagles-buffalo-bills/

 

Breaks down the pros and cons for each side.

 

Eagles are left with scary amounts of cap room.  

[Mol3m4n]

McCoy may be 26, but he's already been worked harder than any back in the league. That just doesn't at good with me. Backs that haven't had as big of a work load as McCoy take a steep drop in their performance after they hit 28 anyways. It will be interesting to see how long he lasts.

[O-Ther]

People keep saying it's easy to find top RBs but they can't name 5 super star RBs in the league. That's because there are only 3 of them. McCoy, Peterson, and Lynch.

 

And, you forgot to include Keuchly in that list. lol

 

Luke is a step above that list, that's why I didn't include him.

 

Edit: Luke and Patrick Willis are the only middle/inside LBs I see as the elite top shelf players The guys I mentioned are a step below them

[Mr. Scot]

Josina Anderson of ESPN reports McCoy is not happy with this trade (link)

 

"He’s a Pennsylvania kid. He’s never played football outside of Pennsylvania—high school, college, pro. So of course he's not happy. Sounds like it’s pretty final to me unless LeSean is refusing to go to Buffalo."

On whether the source believes McCoy will make a trade to Buffalo difficult, in light of McCoy’s initial reaction to the news:

"It'll be interesting to see how this process plays itself out because he's an interesting individual. In your mind, when you think of Buffalo you think of cold and losing games. It’s not like it’s the Philadelphia market where you’re always on t.v. and you’re playing for like the division title or that type of thing…It was unexpected. I'll tell you that much.”

The source on how McCoy is feeling at the moment:

Honestly, he's frustrated...It's alright. It's the league. I told him that. I guess he just never experienced that, but he was like 'why me.'"

The source said he thinks McCoy is "not going to make it easy, that's for sure."

[SgtJoo]

[Mr. Scot]

 

Checked his comments.  He got a note from Quentin Tarantino saying he should tone down his foul language

[London Loves Luke]

The people that are saying the Eagles lost out simply don't understand value. The Eagles received a Linebacker and close to $10m free cap.

 

They could sign Forsett/Spiller and a WR in free agency and EASILY pass McCoy's production for the next few years with that $10m. Plus they get an exciting young LB. 

[osd22]

Could turn out well for the Eagles the more that I think about it

 

This. Kiko looked incredible before his injury, seems like the Eagles made a good deal...

[Johnny Rockets]

The people that are saying the Eagles lost out simply don't understand value. The Eagles received a Linebacker and close to $10m free cap.

 

They could sign Forsett/Spiller and a WR in free agency and EASILY pass McCoy's production for the next few years with that $10m. Plus they get an exciting young LB. 

 

 

As mentioned in the Grantland article that was posted - it's about positional value.  Lot's you can do with almost $50M in cap space plus this year's draft class is filled with RB talent.