(12-02-2018, 08:39 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote:

(12-02-2018, 07:05 PM)Upper Wrote: I'll never bash anyone who feels like you, but I'll also never bash anyone who realizes we just went from what would have been 3rd or 4th pick in the draft to 9th. That could easily cost us a franchise changing QB. There are multiple angles to look at it.

No matter where we pick, the Jaguars can always move up by trading away picks. See what the Jets did with Sanchez or what the Chiefs did with Mahommes. The list goes on.

You always play to win the game. You can always move up. You can’t always move down though.

But that's the thing...teams can't always move up to get the guy they want.

In the great 1983 draft, the Chargers offered the Colts their three (3) first round draft picks that year for the chance to draft John Elway and the Colts turned them down.

Fifteen years later, the Colts were not willing to move out of that top spot in the 1998 draft.  Peyton Manning was the QB.

Neither Tampa nor Tennessee were willing to trade down in 2015 off the top two spots despite both teams getting offers for those picks.

Now of the teams looking as if they will pick ahead of us in the draft order, many of them chose QBs this past draft, and some will probably be willing to trade down to accumulate picks to get players around their young signal callers to help them as Tennessee did in 2016.

But are you willing to pay the price?  Over the years I've been on this board, Jaguars fans have never wanted to deal up.

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(12-02-2018, 09:13 PM)krauley Wrote: Brady was selected with pick #199, a compensatory pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.

Do you really want to formulate your team's draft strategy around every other team mis-evaluating your guy for 5-6 rounds before you land him?  Brady is by far the exception, not the rule.

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(12-02-2018, 10:29 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(12-02-2018, 09:13 PM)krauley Wrote: Brady was selected with pick #199, a compensatory pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.

Bad example. He was a once in a lifetime QB.

Exactly.

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