Branden Albert trade won’t happen unless he lowers his price
 

Branden Albert trade won’t happen unless he lowers his price
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 21, 2013, 6:46 PM EDT
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The much-discussed potential trade of Branden Albert from the Chiefs to the Dolphins doesn’t appear likely at the price Albert is currently seeking.

Although the Chiefs and Dolphins can probably agree on compensation — the Dolphins sending a second-round pick to Kansas City — the hangup is that Albert wants the kind of money that the Dolphins aren’t willing to spend. Specifically, according to Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports, Albert wants between $8 million and $9 million a year on a long-term deal.

In other words, Albert is looking for the same kind of contract that left tackle Jake Long got from the Rams — the very contract the Dolphins wouldn’t give Long, which is why he left Miami for St. Louis.

If the Dolphins weren’t willing to pay Long that kind of money, it’s hard to see why they’d be willing to give up a second-round draft pick for the privilege of paying Albert that kind of money. So the Dolphins may need to look elsewhere for a left tackle. And Albert may have to settle for playing this season for the Chiefs, making $9.8 million, and hitting free agency next year.

And this is new news? Hasnt every person out there said the Dolphins want Albert.

:facepalm:

Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 4m

As I said on TA: I do hear #Dolphins are interested in #Chiefs OT Branden Albert. Big question: Will #Chiefs take No. 54, 2nd 2nd rounder?

If and when this happens, y'all remember I called it, right? :)

So it'll be Fisher at #1, and we'll get a 2nd back and take Nassib/Barkley/Manuel/Dysert/whomever Andy likes.

Uh-Oh

Unless it's for this year's second round pick (one of them), no.

:shake:

That's going to free up a shitton of cap. Better get a couple more OL pieces.

They have two second rounders so I'd imagine it'll be the higher of the two (#42).

Yes. Seeing how Dorsey was raped in the Alex Smith trade.

It's a fire sale to give up Albert for a 2nd. However, if we're going to draft a tackle anyway we don't have much leverage.

So in essence, we will have traded Albert and some pick next year for Alex Smith.

****.

Hell we trade Albert. We draft Fisher and sign Andre Smith. That would be huge.

Ugh better be the higher 2nd rounder.

Several of us predicted this.

Hope we get something good out of the deal. If we can land anything better than just a 2nd rounder...

Andre Smith?

Yeah, no. Not unless he wants to play for $3 million a season. There's no way I'd trust that lazy piece of shit with a big contract.

It's gonna be Joeklelelelel or Fisher now at 1, but who do you think we get in the second if this goes through?

Nostradumbass

So, Ian Rapoport just said on NFLN one of the two trade possibilities he is keeping his eye on is Brandon Albert to the Dolphins.

The questions is? Would the Chiefs be willing to take the Dolphins second pick in the 2nd round #22, 54th overall? The Dolphins first pick in the second round is #10, 42nd overall.

The #10 spot would be 8 picks from where we would have originally picked before the Smith trade.

Heres what we do. We trade Albert and get the higher of the Dolphins pick. We draft Fisher (Not a fan of a T at #1) sign Andre Smith to play RT and than draft a Barkley or Manuel in the second.

Yeah, Dorsey/Reid shouldn't be allowed to trade anymore after this. Getting fleeced twice when you have a 2-14 team is ****ing unacceptable.

Pretty much. The more things change the more they stay the same.

this gif never fails LMAO

****ing terrible trade. God I hope this is just a smoke screen.

I think I overuse it, but in reality it is not used enough.

For Albert? JFC they should at least give up the first 2nd rounder.

I am thinking we should get thier first 2nd rounder this year and a second next year.


Am I over-stating Albert's value?

Im hoping too but everyone is reporting it. Im just waiting for it to read..

@Jay Glazer the KC Chiefs trade Branden Albert to the Miami Dolphins for the 54th pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Heresy and truth in one sentence. Congrats!

We better get that top 50 pick. Albert is worth that much.

Well, we traded the #1 and a little more for Alex Smith.


**** me.

It isn't.

Is Albert not worth both 2nd rounders they have?? Last I checked the Dolphins are desperate for a LT. We could still draft Fisher, which leaves the Dolphins even more ****ed. That would drive the value of Albert up, so why not just do that on draft day, then see what the Dolphins will give up?

Apparently Dorsey is a reerun though.

Writing has been on the wall for a while.

I was also told today that the Chiefs were the ones that told Albert to stay away and that he would have reported if they hadn't said that.

I'd be shocked if they took Joeckel though. Fisher is the lineman in the Reid style. He wants guys who are big and who can maul and that's Fisher.

It's not Joeckel and it's not Albert.

Albert turned the team off for a number of reasons 1 being his inability to be flexible for the good of the team, the other is his contract demands and the 3rd is they question how well he's going to hold up on a long term deal due to the various body transformations he has undergone.

If the Chiefs can get the 42, take it and clear 9 million off the books.

I know it's not popular around here, but Dorsey made the right move franchising and trading this guy since they really just don't think he fits.

Yes.

Package Albert, 1.1 for the Fins' 1st, 2nd and 5th this year and 1st and 3rd next year.

Likely hold up is KC wanting #42 and Miami wanting to only give up #54. I have a feeling this trade is going down regardless as in the end one will give in the day before or on draft day.

The sooner this happens, the sooner everyone can accept we're drafting Joeckel or Fisher

I've accepted it, but it still doesn't stop me from doing this:




"Sigh"

This is epic fail

That's sort where I am now.

Truth.

This organization has won 29 games in 6 years. The only way we're getting out of this mess is to draft EXTREMELY well over the next few years - but apparently it's a good idea to throw away draft picks on a 30 year old game manager QB and spend the only 1.1 in franchise history to replace a Top 8 LT.

Yeah, that makes this team better in the long run.

Only this organization can **** up the two most important and valuable draft picks they've ever had.

The burning man out of the window .gif doesn't even do this justice.

So Albert's been gone all along. Oh well.

so, the dolphins (who drafted a first round QB last year) are getting a starting left tackle (proven veteran) for a low 2nd

and we're getting a rookie starting tackle for the #1 pick in the draft, while spending a high second round pick (and more) on a QB who was a back up


and this isn't ****ing reeruned because why?

We all knew it to be true.

This makes sense. Gonna miss Albert. Thanks as always for the info.

nOOb is correct.

This off-season has been absolutely unacceptable. I don't know why I even give a shit about this franchise anymore. It is absolute bullshit that we, as fans, have been subjected to absolute shit since Trent Green's egg got scrambled and this is the kind of offseason we get from the "new boss." Same as the old boss, if you ask me.

****, while we're at it, let's trade Jamaal for a 3rd and draft his replacement with the R2 pick we get from Miami.

The smoke is just coming from that guy who's falling out the window.

Trade Houston for a fourth and draft his replacement with the third we get from Jamaal.

Wow this place has way too high an opinion of Branden Albert

I am going to wake up and find that we still have our early 2nd round pick.....


This is a ****ing nightmare.

**** it. God I hope Chase Daniel can ball. That's the only hope now.

We can win a Super Bowl with him at LT.

So it's really a bunch of ****ing bullshit that he's being traded so we can spend 1.1 on his replacement.

We're probably improving that position 15 percent, at best, down the road.

You can win a SB with just about anyone at LT.

But not with a slapdick at QB.

Reid said that it was Albert who is choosing to stay away.

**** Albert. I don't really care about him one way or another. The implications of trading him piss me off though.

No, it's replacing him with the #1 overall pick.

Are you hearing anything about them finding any takers to trade down? If we get a 2nd for Albert and can snag another 2nd or 3rd to move down and still get Fisher that would be the best case considering the whole ****ed up situation.

I still refuse to believe Dorsey is this stupid.

5.5 sacks allowed per year. 1 more than Joe Thomas.


But hey... when you can get rid of a player like that and then draft his replacement first overall, that's a move you just have to make.

The best thing about this is nothing.

He have up two 2nd round picks for Alex Smith. What's so hard to believe?

Might as well.

****, should probably trade Tamba. Dorsey/Reid could probably get a 4th for him and a 4th for Flowers as well.

You don't think he's valuable? Some teams are willing to spend a #1 pick for a good left tackle.

We're literally pissing away the #1 pick.

This is just indefensible.

Albert was a 1st round pick AND he is proven solid. Getting the 54 th for him would be horrible.

So we use the 15th pick to get a LT that will net us the 42nd pick, maybe when joeckel pans out we can trade him for the 27th pick and get a LT.

Soooo essentially it's 1.1, what amounts to basically another first rounder, and Albert for Smith, Joeckel/Fisher, and a lower 2nd rounder...

:facepalm:

I almost went he Hali route - but then I thought about it and decided they might just do that to unload his contract. So I went with Houston instead - which to me, is a more valid comparison because Hali is past his prime, where Houston is just entering his (like Albert.)

Eh, we're giving him away at a discount.

The team trading for him has to pay us AND pay him.

Alex Smith better be amazing, because his trade is what started all of this.

Sounds about right.

Yay.

Well if they really don't like geno, we don't have a lot holes so you take the BPA which according to almost everyone with credibility says is Joeckel or fisher

LMAO

Just thickening.