Denver Bags Dwayne Robertson

[HoosierCat]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true

Jets trade Robertson in return for a conditional pick next year.

[Thurmanation]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true

Jets trade Robertson in return for a conditional pick next year.

The bengals should have given them there 3rd for him this year, how come no one was informed of him being on the block?

[HoosierCat]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true

Jets trade Robertson in return for a conditional pick next year.

The bengals should have given them there 3rd for him this year, how come no one was informed of him being on the block?

They did. They were going to trade a 4th and 6th for him a few weeks back, before he failed a physical. Still, rumor was they were keeping an eye on him and might make a run once he was released.

[HoosierCat]

I would like to correct my thread subtitle.

The Broncos did not get Robertson for "basically" nothing.

It appears the got him for ABSOLUTELY nothing.

Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said at his pre-draft press conference today that Robertson's knee did not pass the physical taken by team doctors. The Broncos acquired the defensive tackle from the New York Jets, anyway, in exchange for essentially nothing.

"He would have flunked our test over the last four years," Shanahan said. "But he's played over the last four years. The last two years, he's played 77 percent of the time. So we were willing to take the risk."

If Robertson plays in less than 65 percent of the defensive plays in 2008, the Broncos will not have to give the Jets a 2009 draft pick. The Jets will get up to a third-round pick in the unlikely event Robertson is on the field for more than 65 percent of the plays.

The Broncos use an eight-man rotation up front so it's unlikely any defensive lineman, much less Robertson, will play two-thirds of the snaps. Elvis Dumervil was the only Broncos lineman who played 70 percent of the defensive snaps last season, but that was partly because of injuries to two other defensive ends, Ebenezer Ekuban and Jarvis Moss.

Wow. Just wow.

[COB]

The Bengals doctors described his knee as bone on bone. I guess if he's willing to take the needle before every game, he could do something. But damn, at what point do you just say, enough's enough?