Bailey for Mankins: How to Make Patriots and Broncos Super Bowl Contenders

October 9, 2010   ·   Pete Williams   ·   Jump to comments

As Week 6 is approaching, trade rumors are heating up—and tradenicks like myself love to speculate.
The collapse of negotiations between Champ Bailey and the Denver Broncos made me think of the possible options of that breakdown.
Now I know that Bailey in many personifies the Broncos and that both he and McDaniels has expressed their hopes of Bailey staying in Denver.
But bear with me as I try to explain why a trade between the Broncos and Patriots for Bailey and Mankins to a certain extent would make some sense.
 
For Denver
Mankins would be the veteran player that could tie the Denver O-line together for many years to come. An O-line that needs an experienced leader and not least a player that would help getting the running game going in Denver.
In my book Denver needs to get a running game going if they have any aspirations of going to the playoffs. With a strong running game Denver would be a lot better team on third down and in the re...

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