Giants Three-Way Trade Proposed In Remodeling Of New York Offense and Defense

The Giants should trade former Kayvon Thibodeaux and get Raiders tight end Michael Mayer. Anything else in this media proposal? Yeah. Lots of "anything else.''

We will say this about the guys who have assembled a media-proposed three-way trade involving the New York Giants: They have gotten complicatedly creative.

Unnecessarily so, but still ...

Here's the wild idea, in three bites ...

The Giants should trade former first-round pick Kayvon Thibodeaux will be with the team long term. OK. We've heard that one before.

And they get Raiders tight end Michael Mayer. Umm, OK, sure.

Anything else? Yeah. Lots of "anything else.''

Somewhere in this pile the Packers are the team that is getting Kayvon Thibodeaux. The Raiders are getting receiver Romeo Doubs. The Giants get Mayer and a whole mess of fourth-round picks are exchanged.

Fun stuff in the recent hypothetical trade at A to Z Sports ... but we have questions.

And they start with the core conceit about a "three-team trade.''

Why?

Why do the Giants want Mayer, as he's a Raiders backup who has accomplished nothing and who in New York would be Theo Johnson's backup?

Why are they giving away in Kayvon who can be part of this roster's greatest (only?) strength when teaming with Brian Burns and Abdul Carter?

And why get tangled up in a rare three-way instead of just calling the Raiders and bidding on Mayer?

A to Z suggests that the New York "getting a fourth-round pick'' is the sweetener here. So Thibodeaux is dumped in a defensive remodel for a backup tight end and Day 3 pick who isn't really good enough to remodel the offense? Wouldn't it be wiser to let Thibodeaux play out the season and then leave in free agency, thus netting the Giants a comp pick that might be at least a Day 3 pick?