It was a fantastic trade for the Lions. Here's why:
1. Roy is a free agent at the end of the year, and has expressed that he wants to leave.
2. To keep him we would have to franchise him, paying him like a top 5 receiver, when he is not that.
3. We have Calvin Johnson, when you draft a receiver at #2, your kind of committed to him, so now we would have to sign both of them, and would be spending like 40% of our cap on 2 players at the same posistion.
4. While it's true that Roy was one of our very goo talents, he happens to be one of the very few talents we have, so more draft picksis the only way to get talent at other much needed posistions.
5. Moss was traded for a 4th round pick.
6. I think we are now the only team with 2 first round picks, and with the first 2cd round pick, that means we could theoretically get 3 of the top 35 players in the draft.
7. And most importantly, this makes our GM spot more appealing to canidates because now they have the opportunity to come in and basically add 8-10 players of their choosing immediately to our team.
