(12-08-2024, 09:05 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(12-08-2024, 07:29 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: If we were #1 and the Raiders and Giants at #2 and #3 they aren't going to give up a stack of draft picks to move up one or two spots, especially when they know we wouldn't be going QB. Plus that's dependent on both teams falling in love with the same player and seeing no alternative. 

I remember we had the same discussions when we got the #1 pick we took Walker with and while none of us know what offers, if any, we're made, I'm sure if there was a stack of picks we would have taken them.

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Lol!! Love that the chaos of a Jags W has turned the chaos up to 11!!

The 2022 Draft (the Travon Walker draft) was an extremely unusual draft where the first quarterback wasn't taken until #20.  As such, there was little trade value.  However, that's an outlier.  With the exception of Walker, a quarterback has gone #1 overall in seven straight drafts.  In most years, a team will pay dearly to trade into the #1 spot.  

The Jaguars not needing a quarterback also means very little in terms of hurting trade value because the Jaguars can trade the pick.  The Giants will want to trade up to get ahead of the Raiders.  The Raiders would want to trade up in order to ensure the Jaguars don't trade with the Giants.  The Jaguars could also trade to a team in the #4 or lower spot and the Raiders/Giants know it.  

Caring about 2 or 3 wins is like caring about whether you get a 22 or 23 in blackjack.  Either way, you are going home a loser.

This ^^

I've seen the Detroit Lions comparison with the Jaguars, the one thing they did was trading their QB, get a few high picks (2 firsts and a 3rd), and a pretty decent QB in Goff (a #1 overall selection.)  Adding that much talent (assuming you can hit) injects cheap talent into your team.  If the Jags could have turned the #1 overall into 2-3 elite players that would have bolstered the roster on the cheap.

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