Help Me Get A Trade For A Qb

What could the Detroit Lions get in return if they traded Matthew Stafford?

This is wild speculation, but I'd say that the Lions could get at least one 1st round pick and one 2nd round pick for Matthew Stafford.  For evidence I point to the trade which brought Alex Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs.  That trade was for two 2nd round picks.  Stafford is a better quarterback than Alex Smith, but he has also had an up-and-down career.  Some people fear that Stafford's best years are behind him.  That is probably not the case, but that is the reason I am unsure if someone would pay two 1st round picks for him.As to which teams would be interested?  Well, basically any team in search of a franchise quarterback.  The Rams.  The 49ers.  The Jets.  The Bills.  The Redskins.  The Browns.  The Texans.  The Eagles (it's uncertain if Sam Bradford will return in 2016).  The Broncos (it's uncertain if Peyton Manning will return in 2016).  If one team were to break the bank, it would be the Redskins, who might offer two or even three 1st round picks for Stafford.  I don't see it happening, though, because the Lions are unlikely to trade Stafford away.

In my 1QB 12 team PPR league, should I trade Andre Johnson for a QB (Newton, Romo) + WR (Colston, M Evans, James Jones, Fitz) of my choice? (My team as it stands is: Stafford, Lynch, Hillman, Andre Johnson, Golden Tate, Gronk, Andre Holmes, Alex Smith, Delanie Walker, Khiry Robinson, R Helu Jr, and Allen Robinson.)

Yes, absolutely. Do this now before the offer is rescinded.If I were you, I would take Russell Wilson and Marques Colston but this is neither here nor there. The best part about this is you get pawn off Andre Johnson (Hopkins will continue to see the red zone looks in my opinion).This trade would still be a "trade NOW" even if it was Wilson for Johnson, straight up.

How is the trade of Brock Osweiler a good trade for the Browns?

They might trade the 2nd round pick and then some for Garoppolo, an inexperienced quarterback the Superbowl champions claim to want to take over for their aging franchise quarterback, but can be had if another team is willing to overpay. This should sound familiar, since it is exactly the same position Osweiler was in last year. The Texans were able to undo most of the damage by trading with an even stupider team, something the Browns can't do in 2018 with Garoppolo since there isn't a stupider team in the NFL.If the Garoppolo trade doesn’t happen, they paid $16,000,000 to turn an early 6th round into a late 2nd, essentially moving up only 2 rounds for an amount of money that buys a free agent far better than almost any player drafted this late. Of course, Sashi claimed to be able to draft 1st round talent in the 7th round, and if the Browns draft that much better, it could work. History however shows the Browns drafting worse than the other 31 teams.If the Browns were smart, they could keep Osweiler as a bridge quarterback, so a prospective franchise quarterback gets a chance to develop before being thrown into a game looking like a deer in headlights, either getting injured or losing the chance to start again because they weren't Aaron Rogers their first game. Or they could even give Osweiler a chance to compete.After the first few games a playoff contender will inevitably see their starting QB injured, and realize Osweiler is the best of the available replacements. That would be the time to unload him for more than he's worth. Instead, the Browns are talking down Osweiler’s, making sure that anyone who might trade for him before he's needed doesn't want him, and letting them know they can just wait for him to be cut if they still do.

Why do companies choose to trade on OTC QX, QB or Pink? What are their advantages over the over-the-counter market for the investor and the company?

The cost of being listed on a major exchange versus the “Pink Sheets” as they’re called, i.e. OTC, because the stocks were once printed on pink paper for distribution to brokers.Markets equal liquidity, more or less, or daily trading volume, with arbitrarily speaking, more liquidity on the major exchanges.Prestige: being listed on a major exchange carries more than being on the Pink Sheets.But mostly, it’s about the money.There’s another factor you won’t hear much about, and that is that a lot of small companies that go public are really, really small, like two people working out of a garage. They went public in the hopes of getting enough revenue to make their startup a going concern, for example, but just can’t turn their idea into a saleable product. The Pink Sheets have a lot of these kinds of companies. A lot.Then there’s folks who actually have a product, but realize that it won’t go far, like, for instance, they’ve developed some software that allows for video telephone. Never mind that you can pull products for free off the web. They know that, but they’re hoping folks who buy their stock don’t. So, the go public, and suck every last nickel out of the company in salaries, and “my sister runs a cleaning company and we hire her to clean our vast warehouse (their garage) and pay her $5,000/mo to do so, and my mother does our bookkeeping, and my dad is an engineering consultant, and well, you get the picture. For the obvious reason that what they’ve really done is fleece the public in the IPO, and now are in the process of draining the company. But no worry. They’ll be back again to create another gravy train. It happens. A lot. Naturally, these companies prefer the Pink Sheets because the regulation is far more lax (and the opportunities for fleecing the public are much greater).All of which is why investors who are serious about their investments avoid penny stocks and stocks that are not listed on the NYSE, old AMEX (whatever it’s called now, but rolled up into the NYSE) or the NASDAQ. All the rest are just sucker’s markets.