(01-06-2019, 02:18 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(01-06-2019, 12:26 PM)Bullseye Wrote: If you are going to make the deal before draft day, I agree completely with this take.  That's what happened to the Raiders a few years back, when they moved up to get Pace (at least that's what the speculation was at the time)http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/ap...-in-draft/ , only to have the Rams deal up over them to get Orlando Pace, IIRC.  https://cover7.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/...nfl-draft/

However, you may not be able to trade all the way up to one. Maybe the Cards ask for an exorbitant price for trading out of 1. Maybe the Cards have their eyes firmly on Bosa and do not want to deal out of that spot.  Be prepared to trade all the way up to the top spot?  Absolutely.  But I would add be prepared to trade up to 2, 3, 4, etc.

By the way, the considerations to deal up in both of those scenarios were not prohibitive.  Of course, there was no stud QB at the top of that draft.  Perhaps if there was something in between those deals and the Colts-Jets deal last year, it might be palatable for me.

A few years back?  Lol, that was over 20 years ago