(05-05-2023, 10:49 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(05-05-2023, 08:29 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: But if you accept their explanation, then you also have to accept that they lost nothing as a result, because they still took the player they had targeted all along.  It's like if someone hands me $10, and I intend to use it at the bar, but the bar is closed, have I failed?  Or have I gained $10?  

All this bull [BLEEP] about a "failed strategy" implies that they actually risked something, and lost something as a result, when actually, if you accept their explanation, they risked nothing and lost nothing, but gained extra picks for free.

Dude.

They tried to gather more picks in an attempt to use those picks to move back up in the later rounds. Then, no one would trade with them and they were stuck with the picks.

Their initial strategy didn’t work and they had to use more picks in this draft than they intended to.

I know they did not manage to use the extra picks to move up, but to call the whole transaction a failure, when they got the player they would have picked anyway, and got 3 extra picks without losing anything, is way overstating it.  Like I said before, if someone hands me $10, and I intend to use it at the bar, but the bar is closed, have I failed?  Or have I gained $10?

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