Would you trade for either Rivers or Brees?

I think I'd do the #6 straight up for Rivers too. The problem is money. He'd need a new deal which won't be cheap, we've committed $39m to Revis and need to sign Mo. Can't see how Revis, Rivers and Mo could all be on the team together for the next 3 years.

I'm going to assume that the only way those guys get traded is on draft day. The question really should be:

If Mariota is at 6 when we pick what would you do when faced with these options:

A: Draft Mariota

B: Trade #6 for Rivers and #17 overall 

C: Trade #6 for Brees and #13 overall 

D: Trade #6 for Browns #12 & #19

E: Draft another player

*First thing.  At this stage in their career Rivers and Brees are not worth a #6 pick overall so I would be really against any trade like that.  Both teams would be trying to move up to get their QB of the future so that's worth a lot more then just Brees or Rivers, their 1st round pick would have to be included.  Now if they were just dealing them prior to the draft I would give a 2nd at the most.  Yes you're getting a top 10 QB but you're getting him in the twilight of his career and both of them will need their contracts re-worked and be paid a lot of money.*

I would take Rivers and the 17th overall pick. 3 years younger than Brees coming off a better year than Brees and since it's the last year of his deal we can work out an extension pretty easily without off-setting much money to get him under the cap. Base salary is about $4.25 million less than Brees for 2015 but I'm assuming that would drop anyway with an extension and turning some of that base salary into a signing bonus.

At #17 the Jets would have options at pass rusher and taking a tackle at this spot wouldn't be a reach and would help out the team and their new QB. What do you guys think?

We could free up about another $15 - $16MM cap space to fit in a franchise QB:

According to overthecap.com:

$4MM by restructuring Mangold
$3MM by restructurint Decker
$3.2MM by cutting Fitzpatrick -- won't be needed anymore
$3.5MM by cutting Pace (2) & Babin (1.5) (assumes we get an edge rusher in the draft)
$2.5MM by cutting Walls and either Allen/Jarrett (Walls become expendable with all of the CBs we signed and  Allen/Jarrett due to Gilchrist signing.

There are other back end of the roster guys who could get cut for $500K to $600K each that could save another $2 - $3MM if necessary.  I don't see any way to get there without the restructures of Mangold and Decker which will impact the cap in future years.  2016 would be really tight -- Breno and Marshall would almost certainly be cap casualties (Breno is probably a cap casualty anyway unless he elevates his level of play from last season).  Means we would probably have to draft a T and possibly a WR this year to have cheap replacements for them on the roster for 2016.  Not sure where all of this would leave the possibility of an extension/re-signing for Mo.

Bottom line is it could be done, but it would not be easy.  I think it is all a moot point anyway.  Everything I have read about Rivers is that he is a west coast guy and does not want to leave SD -- not sure he would be willing to sign an extension here.  Brees may be more of a possibility, but a longshot as well and how much do you want to give up in trade and cap casualties for a 36 year old QB.

I am not sure why, but it does not come up as an option for Brick on OTC -- not sure if it is a mistake in the site or if there is a feature in his contract that prevents it. 

Yup, he was until Revis.   Based on his contract, he probably has two years left with us.  One of the reasons I would like to see us pick a tackle relatively early in the draft this year.  Would like to have some depth so we can cut Breno if necessary this year and Brick is not getting any younger.  And we have pretty much ignored the position in the draft for years.  Only depth behind Brick and Breno is Brent Qvale -- a udfa out of Nebraska from last year.