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Sure, why not?  You wouldn't trade in the first place if you didn't think you were getting the better deal.  So why wouldn't you want to saddle a Division rival with the bad end of a deal?  The right trade could set your rival back for years.

 

Of course the risk and reward are greatly magnified, because you're going to face that team twice a year.  That's 8x more often than you face an NFC team and roughly 6x more often than you face a non-Division AFC team.  The consequences of messing up a trade will reverberate for years.  We are still smarting from taking Gabbert over Watt.  Not only was Gabbert a very bad pick, but Watt continues to hammer us 2x a year. 

 

If Tennessee wants Tunsil at #5 and Dave is pretty sure his guy will be there at #15, I would do it.  Tunsil is high-risk to me, and I trust Dave to get good value with the picks he gains.  If Tunsil busts and Dave adds 2 or 3 good players with those picks, it's win-win-win. 

Who the fans think the team should draft and who they have high on their draft boards are usually different, so while many are screaming for Myles Jack the red flag from their own doctors might have him more of a 3rd round pick for all we know.  The same was probably true with the character & off field problems that apparently surround LT Tunsil that allowed him to fall to the 13th spot.


 

This is why not: The Titans know they would be letting their division rival get a better player. Of course they don't want that. There is one pick higher than theirs, so we can trade with the Browns.

One of my pet peeves with former Lions GM Martin Mayhew is he made 3 trades with the Vikings over the years.  All were trades in which the Lions traded up.   In the first trade,  the Vikings ended up with DE Everson Griffen in the upper part of Round 4 in the 2010 Draft.  Griffen developed into one of the best all around DEs in the NFL.    In 2012,  the Vikings acquired a 2013 4th Round pick from the Lions that gave them a chip to trade up with the Patriots into the late 1st Round.  The player they took was Cordarrelle Patterson.   Though he hasn't panned out as a WR,  he's a differential Kickoff Returner.   These are not the type of players you want to face twice a season.   It would take an extraordinary circumstance for me to feel comfortable with an intradivisional trade involving my favorite team.