Arizona Cardinals received Cliff Patton. The Cardinals…
Arizona Cardinals received Cliff Patton. The Cardinals received Cliff Patton and got a full season of immediate value. Patton started all 12 games for the club in 1951 and scored 34 points as a kicker, giving Arizona/St. Louis both lineup stability and special-teams production from the player acquired.
Arizona Cardinals Received
- player Cliff Patton
Philadelphia Eagles Received
- player John Goldsberry
Trade Analysis
The Exchange
On 1951-06-19, Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles completed a trade in which Arizona Cardinals received Cliff Patton, while Philadelphia Eagles received John Goldsberry. This review credits only value the acquiring team actually realized and traces later assets only when the downstream connection is supportable.
Arizona Cardinals Return
The Cardinals received Cliff Patton and got a full season of immediate value. Patton started all 12 games for the club in 1951 and scored 34 points as a kicker, giving Arizona/St. Louis both lineup stability and special-teams production from the player acquired.
Philadelphia Eagles Return
Philadelphia received John Goldsberry, but the available record does not show a comparable Eagles regular-season contribution after the swap. Goldsberry did not become a durable Philadelphia contributor, leaving the Eagles with much less realized value than Patton delivered to the Cardinals.
Value in Hindsight
The Cardinals received the only substantial documented post-trade production: 12 starts plus kicking points from Patton, while Philadelphia did not get comparable regular-season value from Goldsberry. Unidentified picks, cash amounts, or future consideration remain explicit rather than being converted into a guessed player or value. That keeps the comparison tied to documented outcomes instead of the apparent value of the names at the time of the trade.
Where the surviving record is incomplete, the evaluation stays deliberately conservative: documented games, starts, production, and traceable asset outcomes receive credit, while unsupported assumptions about hidden consideration or later careers do not.
Final Verdict
Arizona Cardinals Win. Arizona Cardinals earns a B+, while Philadelphia Eagles earns a D. The grades reflect the actual post-trade service, production, and traceable downstream value described above.