Spitfires send their brand new wide reciever Mario Manningham packing after being with the team for less than 24 hours.The Halifax Spitfires trade WR Mario Manningham and QB Chad Henne to the Minnesota Fighting Farmers for QB Anthony Morelli and a 7th round pick in the 2006 BTFFL draft.
The Spitfires are in disarray and are unloading their players for draft picks in the hours before the trade deadline. The trade leaves the Farmers with 19 players on their roster...an announcement on the player that is being cut is expected shortly. The Spitfires, on the other hand, are a player short on their 18 player roster, and are expected to pick up a reciever in the next 24 hours.
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I'm trying to figure out who won this ... I think the Spitfires will regret giving up on Manningham so soon. The Farmers address a need at QB as well but I'm surprised that they give up Morelli -- a player they thought so highly of that they drafted him this season.
I guess I was just thinking about my draft strategy for next year last night, and I figured that I wouldn't want to keep anyone. SO I wanted to maximize my number of draft picks early next year. That's kind of what I was thinking. Maybe Manningham will be an obvious keeper for Shawn by draft time, but I'm not convinced of that. And id he's not I can still get him and I still have the extra pick. Plus, I didn't want to keep Henne at all, so I thought I might as well get a young prospect instead.
First 3 picks in the 2006 draft (at least), 2 picks in the 7th, and 2 picks in the 9th. i'm pretty happy about that set up. Now I just need some young phenoms to show up for me.
Not keeping Derrick Williams?
Well...I'll probably just draft him again with my flurry of picks before anyone else can make a selection at all.
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