How did Miami get 2 first round picks and a second for Laremy Tunsil?

[Scott1988]

Houston got ripped off big time

[VTCrunkler]

Fleeced. 

[Scott1988]

[quotemokc]

Houstan were desperate for OL help

[jamesmasen]

Is this real? WOW! I'd fire my front office immediately 

[FalconsIn2012]

5 minutes ago, jamesmasen said:

Is this real? WOW! I'd fire my front office immediately 

Or fire TD for not offering Jake

[Scott1988]

8 minutes ago, jamesmasen said:

Is this real? WOW! I'd fire my front office immediately 

that's part of the problem; they don't really have a front office

[408Falcon]

4 minutes ago, FalconsIn2012 said:

Or fire TD for not offering Jake

Exactly! We shoulda been on those phones!

[OrthoPTSD]

Kuddos Miami front office?

[ya_boi_j]

17 minutes ago, quotemokc said:

Houstan were desperate for OL help

That and Tunsil was regarded as one off the best in the league at the time. Hindsight always finds a way to show its face

[FalconFanSince1969]

6 minutes ago, FalconsIn2012 said:

Or fire TD for not offering Jake

So eat a ton of dead money, meaning we have to cut half the team, and also create a gaping hole @ LT and get Matt more killed.....why?

[MoFalconsFan56]

3 minutes ago, FalconFanSince1969 said:

So eat a ton of dead money, meaning we have to cut half the team, and also create a gaping hole @ LT and get Matt more killed.....why?

Because great LT’s grow on trees duh 

[RING OF HONOR]

In and out just like a robbery...

[FalconsIn2012]

16 minutes ago, FalconFanSince1969 said:

So eat a ton of dead money, meaning we have to cut half the team, and also create a gaping hole @ LT and get Matt more killed.....why?

You can trade much of that with the player

Trading Dead Money & The NFL Expiring Contract

Dead money has historically served as an impediment to the consummation of player-related trades in the NFL, but recent trends in contract structuring have opened up the possibility for the opposite outcome to take place: dead money as a driver of player-related trades. The new, and increasingly common, contract structures employed by NFL teams allow for dead money to be assigned to any team, whereas traditional contract structures rendered dead money “stuck” with the team which had originally signed the player. As a result, much dead money is now “tradable,” allowing for NBA-style transactions in which one team provides compensation to another team in return for taking on cap-clogging contracts.

 

[FalconFanSince1969]

11 minutes ago, FalconsIn2012 said:

You can trade much of that with the player

Trading Dead Money & The NFL Expiring Contract

Dead money has historically served as an impediment to the consummation of player-related trades in the NFL, but recent trends in contract structuring have opened up the possibility for the opposite outcome to take place: dead money as a driver of player-related trades. The new, and increasingly common, contract structures employed by NFL teams allow for dead money to be assigned to any team, whereas traditional contract structures rendered dead money “stuck” with the team which had originally signed the player. As a result, much dead money is now “tradable,” allowing for NBA-style transactions in which one team provides compensation to another team in return for taking on cap-clogging contracts.

 

Mathews contract isn't one of those. Also the gigantic hole @ LT you just created?

 

TD would have literally just thrown his job away.

[FalconsIn2012]

18 minutes ago, FalconFanSince1969 said:

Mathews contract isn't one of those. Also the gigantic hole @ LT you just created?

 

TD would have literally just thrown his job away.

You wouldn’t have traded him for two first round picks and a second?

[FalconFanSince1969]

1 minute ago, FalconsIn2012 said:

You wouldn’t have traded him for two first round picks and a second?

MAYBE before we signed him to that contract and not in the middle of the season. We wouldn't have even been able to accept the trade without cutting like 12+ mil in other members of the team first as we would have been over the cap. 100% unrealistic scenario.