(04-30-2022, 02:50 PM)ShivanWurm Wrote: so from 13 picks to 7.

That's not such a bad thing tbh.

I doubt 13 rookies would make the team. And now we have an extra 4th rounder next year. Sure, it'll be closer to a 5th round pick. But that's more ammo to move up if we want to next year. And we used some of those picks to move back into Round 1 for the best LB in the draft. We can fault the picks that are made, but it's not bad to trade up. Even if we're trading up into next year with this year's picks. It's the opposite of what Gene Smith would do. Gene would've traded next year's second for a third round this year. While we traded a 5th round this year (and packaged something else) for what will presumably be a late 4th rounder next year, but still a 4th rounder. And who knows. Tom Brady gets injured and can't play anymore, and that 4th rounder could be picked pretty early.

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