Trade Ivory to the Lions?

saintsfan · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:39 am Post subject: Trade Ivory to the Lions?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/28/report-lions-trying-to-trade-for-running-back/

navysaintsfan · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:10 am Post subject:

I would certainly take that! Can't go wrong with additional DLine depth, plus Ivory has had a nasty case of fumblitis all offseason according to everyone on the Saints staff. Keep Cadet and get something for Ivory while he still has value.
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SaintsBeast · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 524

Drew Brees and Chris Ivory for all of their draft picks next year, plus Stafford, Megatron, Suh, and Avril.

In reality, though, i think giving them Ivory and a mid-round pick or maybe even our 2nd for Stephen Tulloch would be fair.
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saintsfan · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:34 am Post subject:

tylerdouglass · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 14168 Location: Bellingham, WA

jcvoodoo · Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 251 Location: Germany

Sounds like a good trade to me. The Lions have a pretty good OLine and Ivory would have a legitimate chance to start until Best gets back (if/when that happens). Win-win for both teams.
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Harper41 · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 11689

If we trade Chris Ivory we'll likely get a 6th-7th round pick for him.
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tylerdouglass · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 14168 Location: Bellingham, WA

wow_junky · Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Posts: 204

I don't think it is worth trading Ivory, the way I see it we have 2 types of running back:

the pass catching nifty back (Sproles, Cadet and Thomas)
and
the standard hard running back (Ingram, Ivory)

to get the best out of the first 3 we need the last 2 to give us the extra dimension to our offence, and if Ingram goes down injured again I don't think I'd want to see Cadet, Thomas or Sproles grinding out yards the same way Ingram and Ivory need to.

For the 2012 season Cadet is the least valuable in my opinion, but going forward he is an ideal replacement for Thomas or Sproles so we need to keep him.

Honalulufan20 · Joined: 25 Jan 2009 Posts: 2639

Stephen Tulloch is arguably the most valuable player on our defense, so trading him for Ivory and a 2nd would be a terrible decision for us.

Even trading Jackson for Ivory seems like a bad deal for us considering Avrils contract situation.

A 6th or 7th or even possibly as high as a 5th is more likely and probably most desirable for us and also more likely.

However, we aren't really looking for a power back that can gain tough yards, we have that in Leshoure and to some extent, Kevin Smith. What we really need is somebody who can fill Jahvid Bests role of being a home run hitter who is also a capable receiver out of the backfield. I havent seen very much o the saints preseason games (other than the first half of the HOF game) so I don't know which players on your roster could do that. If Cadet is that type of homerun hitter, than I think he would be the most likely runner that we trade for, and I could probably see him getting a similar value that Ivory would.
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lifeinthaboot · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 1993

Loins are one of the few teams I wouldn't trade him to in the NFC. We're just making their offense more complete, and that is something I don't think we would want to deal with if we face them.
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