Question for you old-timers, re: Don Coryell

[Houdini]

Originally posted by Harry
... Most of those injuries were to defenisve players and secondary was especially hard hit. The Skins looking to dump payroll offered Ken Houston to the Cards for a draft pick. Bidwill turned down the deal refusing to spend the money....

That's interesting. I wonder if the trading deadline was later in the season back then in the 70s if Coryell wanted Houston after the Cardinal players were injured? Ron Wolf was saying the other day that the NFL should do more to allow for more trades, such as pushing the trading deadline back more.

The NFL trading deadline already passed, and some were saying the NFL should make the trading deadline later like November or December. That way if a team is heading for the playoffs but has an injured player, they could trade for a replacement from a team that won't make the playoffs. Or if a team was a player away from possibly making the super Bowl, they could trade for one from a team that won't make it. Kind of like what baseball does. Football can't really do that because they have their trading deadline so early in the season which is kind of stupid because most teams aren't sure yet if they'll still be a good, mostly healthy team by the time the playoffs start which should make a trade to get over the hump.

I think that would help the good teams for the playoffs, and the bad teams could probably get more draft picks for players to help improve their team for rebuilding. The salary cap kind of makes trades hard to make though too nowadays compared to the 70s, but I still think they should move the trading deadline.

Sorry, off the topic. The Ken Houston reference got me going.