Detroit Lions Actually Considering Trading Calvin Johnson? WTF?

You have to love this time of year for football rumors and news. Now that the draft is done it is going to be all about speculation on who is going to be better, who is could be traded where, and who each team needs to pick up in free agency. More often than not the rumors are crap, but since we have a few more months before the preseason starts we have nothing else to listen to.

That's pretty much the only reason why rumors about the Detroit Lions trading Calvin Johnson are being talked about.

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The rumor came from a recent broadcast of The Dan Patrick Show:

Per @DpShow, #Lions may consider shopping WR Calvin Johnson; A $16M net cap loss in 2014, but just $416,000 in 2015 http://t.co/YVD3RxSosA
— Spotrac (@spotrac) May 12, 2014

From a salary cap standpoint the time to pull the trigger would be next year if the team was going to do it--but there is no way that they can be serious about putting Megatron on the block. Yes, he is not getting any younger (29 in September), but there is no reason to think his production is going to decrease.

He's only hauled in 302 passes for more than 5000 yards and 33 touchdowns the last three seasons. That's all.

To be fair, I could see a few scenarios where trading the best wide receiver in the game would make sense (or at least not be a surprise):

1. Matt Millen is put back in charge of the team.
2. Mathew Stafford is traded away and Tim Tebow made the starting quarterback (love you Tim, but you have a hard time hitting the broad side of a barn man).
3. Johnson is mistaken for the real Megatron by the Autobots and killed.
4. He is kidnapped by someone obsessed with the movie Misery and has both legs broken and his ankles shattered by sledgehammers.
5. The team decides to reinvent the wishbone offense and run the ball 90 percent of the time.
6. Team president Tom Lewand gets in over his head with the Mob and has to sell him.
7. The world goes f---ing nuts.
8. Scientists figure out how to clone him and the team signs his clones to minimum salaries.

So yeah, with those scenarios in mind I suppose it is possible.

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