Trent Williams holding out for new deal

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

That's the thing, Bruce Allen is a total dumb ass stupid fool when it comes to working trades. His history proves that. If someone offers you have 1st you have to take it. Period.

In my opinion, Allen would be stupid if he did what you suggested and took the Patriots 1st rounder (likely to be pick 29-32) when he still had time to see if he can get a better offer. Allen's done a lot of dumb stuff during his tenure here, but the he is handling this is situation perfectly to maximize our leverage.

There's only a small handful of teams that are going to want TW in the first place. Holding out for more compensation or waiting for an injury to occur to me isn't the way to go. Most of the good teams or contending teams will either go w/ their backup ( see Eagles) or wait until next year and get someone in the draft who's young and on a rookie deal.

While, I think only a handful of teams would give up a 1st for Trent, I'd imagine half the league would be interested in Trent. He really is one of the best LTs in the league and its one of the most important positions in football. The price will only go UP if one of those teams has a good start to the season and loses a starting tackle. And its almost certain that one of them will. It happens every year. The longer we wait, the more money Trent loses and more likely he starts changing his tune about holding out.

I understand that we all want this situation to be over with, but this situation is not as urgent as people are wanting to make it out to be. Unless someone makes the team an incredible offer,