The 2010 off season has brought about the trades of not one, but three of the NFL's star wide receivers: Brandon Marshall, Anquan Boldin, and former Super Bowl XLIIV MVP Santonio Holmes. The decade's trade market kicked offwith the Baltimore Ravens' acquisition of Boldin, the New York Jets' acquisition of Holmes, and the Miami Dolphins' acquisition of Marshall. Boldin was dealt for third and fourth round draft picks. Holmes went for a fifth round draft pick. Marshall moved on for a pair of second round picks. That off season saw similarly gifted wide receivers traded for a pair of first round picks each. One of these blockbuster trades saw disgruntled New York Jets' wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson set sail for Tampa Bay while scoring fat loot in the process.

Keyshawn's ProblemThe new millennium began with a bang. During the 2000 off season, despite his book: "Just Give [url=http://www.officialpatriotsonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-TOM-BRADY-JERSEY.html]... Me the Damn Ball!", Johnson wanted more than the damn ball; he wanted money and deference to his talent. All he had done in his first four years was lead the Jets in receiving three times, haul in 31 touchdowns, go to the Pro Bowl twice, and propel his team to the 1998 AFC Championship game. This wasn't enough for new head coach Al Groh and new owner Woody Johnson.

Johnson's complaints with the team were twofold. First, he believed Groh treated him like a player with something more to prove rather than the established superstar Johnson believed himself to be. Worse, Groh lacked the ego placating powers of former head coach Bill Parcells, who had resigned his coaching position following the 1999 season.

Second, the Jets had refused to renegotiate Johnson's contract, which had two years left on it at $2.4 million a year. The team [url=http://www.officialpatriotsonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-JULIAN-EDELMAN-JERSEY.... Edelman Jersey had informed Johnson that their policy was not to renegotiate until a player had a year or less left on his contract. Johnson wasn't buying it, viewing the response as another slap in the face.

Unhappy with team management and his contract, Johnson wanted out, and the Jets wanted him out. A complete wide receiver on the field, Johnson had become a complete distraction off of it.

The Jets' SolutionThe Jets were looking to rebuild and didn't want to deal with their discontented star receiver. Enter the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers were on the lookout for a bona fide receiving threat. Head coach Tony Dungy and General Manager Rich McKay had tried to remedy the team's inadequacy at wide receiver for years, but had been unsuccessful in the draft and in free agency. The Buccaneers had draft picks to burn and management felt that the addition of a premier wide receiver could bolster their anemic offense to provide the final piece to the Buccaneers' Super Bowl puzzle.

The teams put two and two together, and a deal was struck April 12, just days before the 2000 NFL Draft. Johnson was shipped to Tampa Bay for two first round picks in the 2000 NFL Draft. He had little to complain about, landing a 6 year, $56 million contract that made him the highest paid receiver in the NFL. However, he didn't pass up the opportunity to lob some verbal darts at his former team: according to the dollar value of Keyshawn's new contract, Groh and owner Woody Johnson had just mishandled the NFL's best receiver.

How the Jets and Buccaneers FaredThe Jets used the two picks from the Buccaneers to select defensive end John Abraham and tight end Anthony Becht. Both were Jets' starters for several years and contributed to playoff appearances in 2001, 2002, and 2004. However, the Jets would not return to the AFC Championship game until new head coach Rex Ryan spearheaded a rebuilding effort that landed them a spot in 2009's title game. By this time Abraham and Becht had moved to other teams.

On the other hand, the Buccaneers did attain Super Bowl glory with Johnson, but it took them three years after the trade to do so, and it's questionable that it was Johnson that carried them forward. Though Johnson led the team in receiving in 2000 and 2001, the playoffs brought the same disappointing results that had plagued the team before his arrival. After juggling offensive coordinators for several seasons, Dungy was fired and replaced by offensive minded head coach Jon Gruden in 2002. Gruden proved to be the missing piece to their Super Bowl puzzle, but the Buccaneers had to surrender two first round picks and two second round picks: more than they'd given up to acquire Johnson. The loss of so many draft picks over the course of the decade had a deleterious effect on the Buccaneers roster; following the Super Bowl XVII victory, the Buccaneers were largely absent from the postseason scene, with only two playoff appearances in the seven years following their Super Bowl victory.

Ironically, the marriage between Johnson and the Buccaneers lasted the same number of seasons as Johnson's affair with the Jets. In the season following Super Bowl XVII, the player nicknamed "Me [url=http://www.officialpatriotsonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-DOMINIQUE-EASLEY-JERSE... shawn" was declared inactive for the last six games of the Buccaneers' 2003 season, ostensibly due to disagreement with Gruden. Johnson was then traded to the Dallas Cowboys for fellow receiver Joey Galloway in 2004. This reunited Johnson with the man who drafted him to the Jets in the first place: Bill Parcells. Galloway had been the other receiver traded for two first round draft picks during the 2000 off season.

Johnson proceeded to play two more seasons with the Cowboys and one more with [url=http://www.officialpatriotsonlineprostore.com/WOMENS-JULIAN-EDELMAN-JERSEY.... Edelman Limited Jersey the Carolina Panthers before retiring to become an analyst for ESPN in 2006