(05-02-2022, 11:34 AM)Upper Wrote: (05-02-2022, 09:10 AM)Mikey Wrote: So now we're sad that we didn't draft older guys that are likely middling talent?
The horrors.
Next year we have some extra tools to do exactly what we did this year - find talent at the top that we want and move to where they fit. How is that so awful? You'd rather a few practice squad/special teams contributors over the chance to move up and get a potential starter at a position of need?
This is such a short-sighted hill to die upon.
I very much like the process of trading day 3 picks to move up in future drafts, but we should have gotten a significantly better pick than we did. That's all. Also, pretty sure I never said I was dying on this hill.
(05-02-2022, 09:14 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Not to mention next year's draft is just a better draft in general
Next year's draft is always better than this years draft. Story old as time. Without actually having a clue about how the players post 100 will be, what we do know is that this draft had 400 extra players that are not in a normal draft because of covid. The odds that next years draft has better players in the 135-140 pick range, which is likely where our pick will be, are slim.
So your stance is that the 400 extra players returned to school in spite of their prospect as an NFL player to do their alma maters proud? I'd venture that most of them were likely looking at bottom-of-the-barrel picks last year and hoped to elevate their status this season. Additionally, if the pool were 400 players deeper, my guess would be that the prime value would be trading out of this darft for future picks, and using UDFA to find the diamonds that escaped 260-odd picks over the weekend.
The funny thing about value charts are that like most every other item of value, the value is defined by whoever is involved in the exchange - a stock certificate, a football card, a draft pick - there are plenty of resources that project value based on prior exchanges, but in the end, if you want to sell and the only acceptable offer is below what the exchanges suggest, you're left to either hold on to your possession or be satisfied to carry out the exchange at the agreed price. The value of a better pick you're seeking probably wasn't a reality. Personally, I feel we got better value in taking the future pick that was offered than had we stood pat and took some bubble players this year.
Do we stay at 135-140 to take a guy with the pick? Maybe. Will they be great? Maybe not. Do we use the pick to trade up? Maybe. Could we have traded up next year without this extra pick? Probably. I don't have answers, but I like that we have more options. Value chart be damned.
