Think of it as jumping into a cold ocean . The longer you stay at knee level water , the more you ' re going to shake and the colder the water feel . Then eventually when you finally muster up the courage , you jump in head first and feel a sense of relief it ' s cold but you can handle it . Take another quick jump and by the second dive you ' re smiling and looking at all the other retards with their arms crossed and standing knee deep . So grab a partner , slap hands and the moment you guys grab onto each other you ' ll be in sweet serenity . <| sep |> Ok , I ' m making the same points to multiple people here so I ' ll just link commentsThe trade was about this season and not wasting a year with a talented team and studly D , we still had AD remember ? Our HOF RB was 31 and we should have just wasted perhaps his last year of greatness and maybe in purple ? Our Defense is talented and showed it ' s on the verge of greatness last season and so is this team . We had the win against a back to back SB Sea team . . Practically all of our studly D is coming back . We have just as much of a shot at the Super Bowl next year as we did this year . Just piss away the whole season because that midlateish 1 st was guaranteed a HOF player , right ? Why bother try to make a SB run when you ' re giving up a HOF player , right ? Not at all . My opinion is that , at the moment , the value we received for that was not good enough to justify the estimated value we gave up . That ' s an opinion and I fully understand if you disagree with it . When we were 50 looking like an actual SB contender and everyone was praising us were you then saying this trade was dumb ? Ironically , I cautioned people to cool their jets about the trade 5 weeks ago . And I ' m not calling it dumb at all . I ' m calling it a gamble , and debating whether a gamble needed to be made . And you ' re bringing up Dallas , why ? Daks just fall from the sky , and their # 4 overall pick is relevant how ? We weren ' t going to be that bad even with Hill or a scrapheap vet . I ' m not talking about Dak at all . Now as to thisNot relevant and why would the Eagles have cut and not instead traded him next season ? Yep , for sure we ' d just get Sam next season because it ' s just that easy . Not how it works , again , no way the just cut him and not trade . Nobody was trading for Bradford without restructuring , as his cap hit of $ 17 million was big enough to create problems for all potential teams . Not to mention that he was already released by the team when his last contract expired , and it took 2 months of negotiations for him to come back to even sign that deal . It ' s not at all a stretch to think he would be released after this year . It was actually seen as the most likely scenario . It would take a team really desperate to win now to trade for Bradford , and that ' s what happened .