Kevin O'Connel - A Pawn in the NFL Game (UPDATE AFTER JETS)

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Kevin O'Connell - welcome to New York! He's a Jet now. Detroit has already traded him.

The Lions are making full use out of their position as the team with first priority in the waiver process.

They surprisingly snagged quarterback Kevin O'Connell last week. And now they've traded him to a new team.

According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Lions have sent O'Connell to the Jets.

Compensation for O'Connell isn't known.

Coincidentally, the Jets host the Patriots -- who picked O'Connell in the third round of the 2008 draft and who surprisingly cut him -- on September 20.

The move shows that the Patriots could have (and arguably should have) tried to trade O'Connell in lieu of letting him walk, and this could fuel speculation that coach Bill Belichick was trying to slide O'Connell to former Pats V.P. of player personnel Scott Pioli, whose Chiefs were No. 3 on the waiver priority list. (But as a reader points out, that theory was undermined by the fact that the Chiefs didn't put in a waiver claim for O'Connell. Doh.)

NEW UPDATE

We mentioned earlier today the possibility that the Pats didn't try to trade quarterback Kevin O'Connell before cutting him because New England coach Bill Belichick wanted to slide the 2008 third-rounder through to the Chiefs, whose G.M. is former Patriots V.P. of player personnel Scott Pioli.

The fact that, you know, Pioli didn't submit a waiver claim for O'Connell sort of blew that theory to hell.

But the Broncos, coached by former Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, did make a claim for O'Connell. And even if Belichick wasn't trying to help McDaniels out, there's a belief that the trade of O'Connell from the Lions to the Jets might be a precursor to renewed trade talks between the Jets and the Broncos for receiver Brandon Marshall.

The notion has been floated by Mike Klis of the Denver Post. Though Klis points out that a source says the Broncos have no intention of trading Marshall, who rejoined the team today after a nine-day suspension for conduct detrimental to the team, the Jets seem to have even less of a need for O'Connell than the Lions did.

 

[gt2590]

Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

I wonder if O'Connell has any video-taping skills too...

 

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Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

I wonder if O'Connell has any video-taping skills too...

Wonder if the Jets got him for his inside knowledge on the Pats :twisted:

 

[KandKCards]

Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

I wonder if O'Connell has any video-taping skills too...

Wonder if the Jets got him for his inside knowledge on the Pats :twisted:

I'm sure that's why they got it. Too bad that theory never works, and O'Connell never learned the system anyway :lol:

 

[sffanmike25]

Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

O'Connell never learned the system anyway :lol:

:lol: :lol:

 

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Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

O'Connell never learned the system anyway :lol:

:lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

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Re: Kevin O'Connell Has a New Home (AFTER Detroit)

NEW UPDATE

We mentioned earlier today the possibility that the Pats didn't try to trade quarterback Kevin O'Connell before cutting him because New England coach Bill Belichick wanted to slide the 2008 third-rounder through to the Chiefs, whose G.M. is former Patriots V.P. of player personnel Scott Pioli.

The fact that, you know, Pioli didn't submit a waiver claim for O'Connell sort of blew that theory to hell.

But the Broncos, coached by former Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, did make a claim for O'Connell. And even if Belichick wasn't trying to help McDaniels out, there's a belief that the trade of O'Connell from the Lions to the Jets might be a precursor to renewed trade talks between the Jets and the Broncos for receiver Brandon Marshall.

The notion has been floated by Mike Klis of the Denver Post. Though Klis points out that a source says the Broncos have no intention of trading Marshall, who rejoined the team today after a nine-day suspension for conduct detrimental to the team, the Jets seem to have even less of a need for O'Connell than the Lions did.

 

[Daltonb1219]

You gotta kind of feel bad for the kid i mean he got cut then went to a team then traded an now might be traded again thats one hell of a week

 

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You gotta kind of feel bad for the kid i mean he got cut then went to a team then traded an now might be traded again thats one hell of a week

I just hope he didn't buy a plane ticket to New York yet :lol:

 

[Daltonb1219]

You gotta kind of feel bad for the kid i mean he got cut then went to a team then traded an now might be traded again thats one hell of a week

I just hope he didn't buy a plane ticket to New York yet :lol:

:lol:

 

[cgilmo]

players don't buy thier own tickets

 

[gt2590]

The Skins did the same thing this week by picking up Giants' reject Andre Woodson. Hmm... and who does Washington play week 1?

Coughlin even admitted they were a little worried about this. I'll guess we'll wait and see if Woodson sticks around past week 2...