just read this in the daily news...
just read this in the daily news...
the problem is that both az & cleveland are basing their asking price on what dallas paid (they were robbed) for roy williams last year...
think a #1 & a #3 is a fair price...
i just posted this in the nfl forum about the sanchez situation...
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=364878
think it's going to be a wild draft this year...
April 23, 2009
No deal: Giants don't expect to land Edwards
The Braylon Edwards deal, which many people around the NFL believed was all-but done, now appears to be all-but dead.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the Giants no longer see any hope of acquiring the Cleveland receiver and are moving forward with their plans to take a receiver early in the NFL draft. The sticking point still appears to be GM Jerry Reese?s refusal to part with the Giants? first-round pick and the Browns? refusal to take anything less.
It?s pretty much been that way since Reese and Browns GM George Kokinis first talked about Edwards in February, but until very recently there was at least some optimism inside the Giants? organization that one of the two sides would blink. Reese has no plans to blink, the source said, and the Giants are now convinced that Kokinis won?t either.
So, barring a late drop in the Browns? asking price - or a dramatic change of heart by Reese ? the Giants will head into Day 1 of the draft focused on getting a receiver to help out a corps thinned by the losses of Plaxico Burress and Amani Toomer. Several sources have said they almost certainly will take a receiver in Round 1, though there?s at least a small chance they?ll draft a linebacker, depending on how the first 28 picks break.
The Giants also have an interest in moving up in the first round, according to several team sources. With two second-round picks, two third-round picks and 10 picks overall, they certainly have the ammunition to do it, although given their position in the draft it?s not likely they?d be able to get inside the Top 15.