I don't feel like we should be vetoing trades unless they are so obviously lopsided that its tanking or one side it
CLEARLY
being taken advantage of and I don't think either of those apply here. It goes without saying but alts shouldn't be trading. Hell, alts shouldn't be in our leagues. And I mean two accounts from the same person, not someone playing on an alt in lieu of their main.
For those not in L1 and want to know what the fuss is about...
Team A is trading Julian Edelman and Dalvin Cook to team B for Todd Gurley and DeAndre Hopkins.
Team A being Jahudo's Jaguars and Team B being Flash Gordan Baby who is Dom (i think)
My initial reaction was much like Panzers ("oh poor Jahudo.", he remarked)
Barring injury, Dalvin Cook is going to be a beast. Minnesota is going to feed him until he's stuffed. Trading a top 10 RB for a RB2 and a WR1 that had one big week and then two eh weeks doesn't make that much sense. Unless the Rams start using Gurley more and Hopkins returns to ball hog status this trade is in favor of Flash Gordon. But I think that's what Jahudo is doing here. He's trading his best player in hopes that Gurley and Hopkins rebound and that's exactly what a trade is for. I mean sure there's the risk that it blows up in his face and Gurley stays an RB2 and Watson throws the ball around so much that Hopkins never hogs the ball ever again but dems the breaks.
Just to look at the roster as a whole with the trade in mind:
Jaudo is going to have his 3 wide set be Cooks, Hopkins and M. Williams. And his backs are Conner and Gurley.
Flash Gordan will have Evens and Gordon. I'm not sure who he envisions as his third wide b/c he has Ross and Boyd and Edelman. So he might even start Boyd and just use Edelman as depth. At RB he'll have Cook and ???. OBV this week he's using Ekeler but once Gordon comes back I guess he plans on using White?
Now maybe, he should have listed Cook on the trade block so others could have an opportunity to trade for him and seen what the best offer he got but that seems more like a missed opportunity on Jahudo's part.
At the same time, props are in order for Dom for taking the initiative and landing a really good RB. Though I could see the argument that he's cannibalizing the roster of a bottom-feeding team.
I enjoy the discussion though.
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
edited c.s. lewis quote b/c limit