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BTW, Freedom, is was good dealing with you. You drive a hard bargain. You never backed down from what you wanted, then slyly threw in the Chambers request at the end. Very good trading, I'd say. I really thought I'd get you with Gonzalez/Cotchery, Chambers and a 1st.
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Okay, from my perspective I have known you wanted him since right after I drafted him (
http://www.predsff.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12234) and you called him a “WEAPON”. Since you appreciated his talent and had the local TN thing going on as well I was pretty clear that you wanted him on your team. At the same time, I really liked him and really did not want to trade him (not really driving a hard bargain so much as I could not make myself pull the trigger).
Couple that with Reggie Brown being injured and not practicing and Brandon Marshall looking at a 2-3 game suspension I felt I could use another WR#3 (at least in FF terms) who was not too horribly overpriced. Also, with McGahee having the surgery it seemed like having Rice (who while I think Johnson is special I still think could put up equal FF numbers to Johnson each year) was not too big of a drop off. Finally getting your 2009 first rounder I could not keep saying no.
I think both players have the ability to be quality contributors and I do think Johnson is the better than Rice but not that much better when all the other pieces of the deal are considered.