(03-06-2018, 12:36 PM)Deacon Wrote:

(03-06-2018, 12:23 PM)Bullseye Wrote: That caught my attention too, and I wondered about the trade back possibility, though I didn't quite interpret that as "only" expecting second round value.

As for the possibility of obtaining an early 2019 first round pick?  I'd feel a lot better about that possibility if we had Bobby Beathard in this draft. (1) He was notorious for doing that.  To me, the best chance of that happening, would be for one of the QBs to fall and a team get desperate. (2)

1. Well, the only option now is to get our own Bobby Beathard. This will be Caldwell's first time in this situation at the helm, but not Coughlin. Maybe he can provide some guidance for that although Coughlin always seemed to me to be more of a "trade up" guy than trade back.

2. I'm not so sure that's the only way though. I read somewhere about how Cleveland moved up from the early Second into the late first last year for a TE, Njoku. This makes me wonder if a player is sitting there that a team sees him as rounding out their roster, maybe that would be more enticing than a QB who fell. Again, I have no idea if this is true or not, it just makes me wonder.

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(03-06-2018, 12:22 PM)jagforlife85 Wrote: I think what he's saying is despite picking at the end of the second, third and fourth round etc..., they'll still be in position to draft a player who's talent warrants a high 2nd, 3rd, 4th round pick. This speaks to the depth of this draft, as Bullesye originally alluded to/

I get that, and I agree with that aspect. I probably could have done a better job of wording my response in that I am more interested in how flexible Caldwell is going to be with his draft selections than his impression of the depth of the draft.