Browns trade Suggs to the Jets for CB Strait

[hunt]

it's probably posted somewhere else but the jets traded for kevan barlow...they gave up an undisclosed draft pick to sf.

[mussa]

maybe we should make a trade...instead of picking up the free agent scraps...

[Dillen]

maybe we should make a trade...instead of picking up the free agent scraps...

If the Eagles made a trade for a RB it would most likely be for other team's scraps..

[PhillyPhanInDC]

PFT.com:

POSTED 12:05 p.m. EDT, August 21, 2006

SPECULATION MOUNTS THAT JETS INTENTIONALLY FLUNKED SUGGS

In the wake of the trade that sent running back Kevan Barlow to the Jets from the 49ers, there is growing speculation in league circles that the Jets knew that Barlow was available before deciding that Browns running back Lee Suggs was not able to pass a Jets-imposed physical.

The Jets acquired Suggs last week in a trade with the Browns, but Suggs failed the physical due apparently to a knee injury that Suggs had suffered in college -- and that had not prevented him from practicing with or playing for the Browns.

The speculation (and we emphasize that it is only speculation) is that the Niners offered up Barlow after word broke of the Suggs trade, that the Jets then nixed the Suggs trade by finding that he had flunked his physical, and then that the Niners and the Jets opted to wait a few days before doing the deal, in order to defuse any suspicions regarding whether there was any winking and/or nodding going on between the 49ers and the Jets before the Suggs deal went down the tubes.

Meanwhile, one league source has offered up an opinion regarding our story from earlier on Monday as to the Jets' emphasis on character guys and the decision to acquire Barlow:  "If they were that concerned about high character and people, this trade that they just made really goes against that thought process."  The source added that Barlow's reputation in league circles is far from stellar, and that he's not regarded as a high-character guy.

Also, to the extent that the Jets are being perceived as doing things the "Patriots way," there are other deviations.  The team's decision to circulate a depth chart with the players listed in alphabetical order is something that not even the facts-frugal Bill Belichick has ever tried to get away with.

That sucks for Suggs. He got his value shtein all over. I would take Suggs over Davis at this point. Davis is a 32, and microfracture surgery is nasty shtein.

[Philly_Crew]

PFT.com:

POSTED 12:05 p.m. EDT, August 21, 2006

SPECULATION MOUNTS THAT JETS INTENTIONALLY FLUNKED SUGGS

In the wake of the trade that sent running back Kevan Barlow to the Jets from the 49ers, there is growing speculation in league circles that the Jets knew that Barlow was available before deciding that Browns running back Lee Suggs was not able to pass a Jets-imposed physical.

The Jets acquired Suggs last week in a trade with the Browns, but Suggs failed the physical due apparently to a knee injury that Suggs had suffered in college -- and that had not prevented him from practicing with or playing for the Browns.

The speculation (and we emphasize that it is only speculation) is that the Niners offered up Barlow after word broke of the Suggs trade, that the Jets then nixed the Suggs trade by finding that he had flunked his physical, and then that the Niners and the Jets opted to wait a few days before doing the deal, in order to defuse any suspicions regarding whether there was any winking and/or nodding going on between the 49ers and the Jets before the Suggs deal went down the tubes.

Meanwhile, one league source has offered up an opinion regarding our story from earlier on Monday as to the Jets' emphasis on character guys and the decision to acquire Barlow:  "If they were that concerned about high character and people, this trade that they just made really goes against that thought process."  The source added that Barlow's reputation in league circles is far from stellar, and that he's not regarded as a high-character guy.

Also, to the extent that the Jets are being perceived as doing things the "Patriots way," there are other deviations.  The team's decision to circulate a depth chart with the players listed in alphabetical order is something that not even the facts-frugal Bill Belichick has ever tried to get away with.

That sucks for Suggs. He got his value shtein all over. I would take Suggs over Davis at this point. Davis is a 32, and microfracture surgery is nasty shtein.

I agree.  When healthy Suggs is a really good back.  Perhaps he and Westy can take turns on the NFL Injury Report and between the two of them give the Eagles a running game.