Quote:After a hard fought 10 games, we have finally worked our way to the top of the draft board. It was hard, but I knew we could do it. Can Dave and Gus pull off the ultimate bluff? I mean, the ultimate bluff?

 

Put BB in position to have a dreadful game Sunday and pull him for Hamneck Henne the rest of the way. Put out the rumor that they just don't see BB as the QB of this franchise and that we are interested in Mariota with the 1st pick. The only way we will be able to trade out of the 1st pick is if we are a threat to take Mariota. Otherwise, we are stuck reaching for a DE who isn't worthy of the 1st pick.

 

Come on Dave and Gus. Make us proud. Getting multiple high picks AND Blackmon back will put this rebuild into warp speed.

 

Ok, dream over.

 

For some reason, I don't think we're going to have to bluff to get somebody interested in our pick with Mariota/Hundley there.

 

Here is the current list of teams that I think would be considering a trade up for a QB if they fell in love with a guy:

 

Bills, Jets, Texans, Titans, Chiefs, Eagles, Redskins, Bucs, and Rams.  

 

That's a lot of teams who could potentially be interested in trading up.  The Bills and Redskins don't really have picks to move up though, so they'd have to pull something completely out of left field to make it work.

 

Edit - Throw in Cincy and Atlanta to teams maybe willing to trade up depending on the QB.  I would consider those two teams to be borderline QB seeking teams.

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