GG Posted April 25, 2005 Author Posted April 25, 2005 GG's post is good, but I would only add taht there is another gauge of value than "market value" and that is what Henry can do on the football field. As someone above said, Henry is worth more to the Bills than to anyone else bidding right now. 317418[/snapback] It is assumed in discussion about market value that since a trade didn't happen, Henry is worth more to the Bills than what other teams were willing to offer. Now we're hearing that TD may not even have been offered a fourth rounder (perhaps he got an offer of a 4th, but was holding out for 4th, with conditional 3rd in '06 based on performance).
Mark VI Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 Anyone who's ever been used car shopping knows to look up the car's blue book value in trying to gauge the market price. Invariably, when you actually get to the dealers' lots, you find a wide disparity between blue book value and market value (the value that the dealer will buy the car from you or will sell the car to you) Folks, you have just witnessed our own version of blue book in the failed Travis Henry trade. Henry's blue book value, as a multiple 1,300 yard rusher and Pro-Bowler was anywhere between a low first rounder and a second rounder. Henry's real market value was around a 4th-5th round, based on his known downsides. Donahoe had to bridge the two and strike a deal that would net the Bills something closer to blue book. The side chair prognosticators who are railing on TD for not pulling the trigger are living in a fantasy world, where it's not their money on the line. The reality is that both Henry and Shelton are damaged goods, with only real interest coming from Arizona & Buffalo. You would figure that if Jonas Jennings was able to get a $10 mil + signing bonus, a quality left tackle earning $3mil/year would jump off a team's trade board in a heartbeat. Oddly, only Bills remained in contention for Shelton's services and only offering Henry, for whom there was little quality demand in an off-season filled with RB moves. One also has to wonder why the only other reported interest in Shelton came from Chicago, who needed to replace Mike Gandy who signed with..... You can draw your own conclusion if Chicago didn't think that Shelton was a worthy enough successor to Gandy to trade draft picks. Then we ask why didn't TD just trade one malcontent for another? My guess is that there is no guarantee that Shelton will make the starting roster, and paying $3mil to a backup is a tall order for TD. That's why he would have rather traded Henry for Philly's 3rd rounder (if that trade was available to him) So there you have it. The market has spoken. Henry is worth bubkus. But he's a steal in your blue book. 317252[/snapback] I'd trade him for a blue book..one filled with naked girls.
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