Next Tuesday after 4p.m. ET, all the reporting, rumors and speculation about the 2024 NFL Trade Deadline will be over. What the Detroit Lions do, if anything, is unclear even if seems like they absolutely should acquire an edge rusher.
It's fair to assume cost, both directly in a trade and residual contract cost, will be two primary drivers of the Lions' interest in trading for any player. Overall "fit", scheme and culture-wise, are equally important.
All of that necessarily narrows the list of realistic options the Lions could trade for. And there's a chance they don't make a trade for an edge rusher at all.
On Friday's edition of ESPN's "Get Up", former NFL general manager Mike Tannenbaum went off the rails with a trade proposal under the premise of "Who Says No?"
"The Detroit Lions are gonna acquire Myles Garrett for three first-round picks, Jahmyr Gibbs and a second-round pick....and the Detroit Lions are gonna win the Super Bowl...
Tanenbaum got the expected reaction from his fellow panelists. Ryan Clark got up from his chair, Bart Scott checked the former GM's coffee cup for signs of something he shouldn't be drinking in the morning and Dan Graziano suggested some Detroit landmarks as part of the proposal.
Then Tanenbaum went even further too far.
"Jahmyr Gibbs is a good player, but he's replaceable."
Scott (after coming back to the table) and Clark dismissed Tanenbaum's proposal with sheer logic, pointing to Za'Darius Smith as a more viable trade target than Myles Garrett and Gibbs as a core piece of the Lions' offense you don't trade under any circumstance.
Mike Tannenbaum goes off the rails with ridiculous Lions' trade proposal
When you offer a ridiculous trade proposal like Tanenbaum just did, people will find receipts of your work in the draft as Jets' general manager.
It's not even that the idea of the Lions trading for Garrett is totally outlandish. It's incredibly unlikely, if not taken off the table as a possibility, but there might be an aggressive offer the Browns would entertain. Two first-round picks might be a viable line for the Lions, if they have or have had any interest in Garrett.
But Tannenbaum lost any hint of logic there might be in matching the reigning Defensive Player of the Year to the Lions by going to three first-round picks and including Gibbs in his wild proposal.
