Parcells willing to trade the 1st overall pick…now THERE’S a surprise!
Lots of chatter around the football world today about Bill Parcells willingness to trade the Dolphins 1st overall pick in the upcoming NFL draft:
”Any team that has won one game, or hopefully two games this year, needs a volume of players,” Parcells said. “But getting someone to be interested in that No. 1 pick is not as simple as just saying, ‘OK, we’re going to trade the pick.’“First, you need to have someone who wants it … I would consider anything.”
As is often the case with these kinds of stories, Parcells carefully crafted comments have been misconstrued by interested parties. A lot of Dolphins fans (including many on our message boards) have interpreted this to mean Parcells IS GOING TO trade the 1st pick. Yet, that’s not at all what he’s saying here.
ANY negotiator worth his weight is going to leave as many options open for as long as he can. Less than 12 hours into the job of running football operations for a 1-14 team, it would’ve been absolutely laughable had Parcells NOT kept the door open for trading the pick. If he has any hope of recouping real value for the pick, he has to convince some other GM that it’s not going to come cheaply.
Whether the Dolphins will trade the pick or not, neither Bill Parcells, Wayne Huizenga or anyone else in the world has come close to making that decision yet. Let’s hear Bill come out and say this at the end of March; THEN it will be a newsworthy story.
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