best practices

it seems like next time i want a bunch of trades to go through, i should head off for a few days. coming back from a work trip, i found that not one but two trades had gone through just as i'd proposed them. in a couple of leagues, i am building off what will hopefully be a breakout jay cutler year by trading other pieces in search of the right opportunities. i already knew i'd pulled off dallas clark/santana moss for jamal lewis and a player soon to be dropped (crumpler), but i was shocked to discover that my romo/hines ward for brees/stephen jackson trade went through. when you've got jay cutler and romo and then you switch to jay cutler and brees, you have nothing to complain about. ward i thought was expendable because i also have bowe and chambers. i am no chambers fan, but really there's a good chance we've seen the best of ward this year (he's been amazing) and i will gamble on trading a mid-round pick for a guy everyone took in round 1. i have 3 starting running backs on my bench in that league now - kevin smith, matt forte, and ernest graham. i might actually sit sjax this wk, but i'm pretty happy with that situation for now. incidentally, i have kevin smith as my third rb in at least 3 leagues, and it looks like i made the wrong call each time i took him instead of forte. oh well.