NY Reporter Says With "100% Certainty" If Mariota Falls To #6 The Jets Will Trade The Pick To The Eagles
METRO – If Marcus Mariota is available at No. 6 in next month’s NFL Draft, he likely will be taken. But a league source said the Jets, in desperate need for a quarterback, won’t be selecting the former Oregon QB there and that the Eagles and Jets would make a trade if the scenario plays out. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a highly-placed league source termed a potential marriage between Mariota, the Heisman and Maxwell Award winner after a stunning 2014 season, and the Jets as “highly unlikely.”
“Philadelphia would make that move and pay that price. We’re talking multiple picks and a player,” the source said. “The Jets would be open to moving the pick and the Eagles have internally prepared to move up in the draft. There are contingencies in place and they know that Marcus is that perfect fit.”
Of course, Mariota played under now Eagles head coach Chip Kelly before Kelly left for the NFL in 2013. Given his obvious familiarity with the Eagles’ offense, Mariota would walk into Philadelphia as the likely starting quarterback of the Eagles come Week 1.
The source said with “100 percent certainty” that if Mariota is available at No. 6 it will be the Eagles, and not the Jets, who will be picking at that spot.
This is going to be an excruciating 2 months.
Would this be a good move? Absolutely. The Saints gave up two first round selections, basically the rest of their picks that same draft and a 3rd round pick the following year. If the Eagles traded two 1st rounders and a second along with Nick Foles then it’s an amazing deal. Instead of an arm and a leg you surrender some picks and a hefty hammer. However, this is yet ANOTHER sketchy report from people with “sources”. “100% certainty” my dick. No source says that unless they’re trying to get into some pants.
Yesterday, Mikey Missanelli (who degraded blogs last week for slinging mud) read aloud an email “from someone with sources” who claimed the Eagles are working out a deal to send Foles, picks 1, 2, 3 this year, picks 1, 2, 3 next year and selections 1 and 2 in 2017 to Tampa Bay for the #1 pick overall and Mike Evans. Now, I would jump on that bitch solely because Mike Evans is a certified BEAST. If he’s not top 5 in the league not then he will be this year. But, again, that’s just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. Let the smut blogs of the world worry about that, mainstream media.
The draft can’t come soon enough.