Originally Posted by
paulwoods13
This forum and Twitter were full of "that trade sets the Argos back years." And look what happened. One year later -- the shortest possible span -- the team is champions and has lots of depth across the lineup, including young NATs. So clearly the trade did not set the Argos back any more than a few games, if that. (I'm well known to believe that going with Lefevour would not have been any better than going with Willy, but even if he did eke out a few more wins down the stretch, does anyone think we would have won anything of consequence in 2016 if that trade had not been made? It would sure be a stretch for all those who dump on Milanovich to suggest we might not have "blown the season" if only we had kept Heath and stayed away from Willy.)
As for dumping the Big Three not curing cancer, maybe so. But the fact is, our locker room was the exact opposite of cancer-ridden in 2017, and IMO a big part of that is we didn't have those guys in it. Call it desperation or whatever you want to call it, but IMO it is impossible to make a valid case we would have been better off in 2016 or 2017 of they had not been cut.