(10-17-2021, 11:10 PM)wg171 Wrote: If KT is gone and no trade partner can be found who is your pick??

There are always trades to be had. We just make it abundantly clear to all 31 other teams, before the draft, that we are willing to listen to any and all offers. Personally, I could give a crap less about the NFL's trade value chart. If I don't see any single player worth staying at the pick I'm in, (which if the Bills win tonight, we'd be #2), then I'm trading out of that selection to the highest bidder, no matter if the NFL trade value chart says it's a good deal or not. If I see players of equal or better value later in the draft and I can add extra picks by trading down, it would be dumb to stay where I'm at and take a player that I don't believe in 100%. 

I'll give an example. In 2017 we had the #4 pick. I desperately wanted to trade down. I don't believe in ever taking a RB in round 1. A RB is only as good as his O-Line is at blocking. I saw absolutely no value what so ever at taking a RB with the #4 pick, especially given the state of the O-Line. The player I targeted was Ryan Ramczyk who was supposed to be selected much later in the first round. He ended up being taken #32 overall by the Saints. Conventional wisdom says if you trade down in round 1, you don't wanna trade down any further than a certain point in that round, but I say that's stupid. If I don't see any elite players in that draft, (which at the time I didn't) then who cares how far I trade down? By not allowing ourselves to trade down that far, we missed a great opportunity. We ended up selecting Fournette, who did nothing and Ramczyk ended up being a 3 time All-Pro NFL OT. 

Personally, I see Thibodeaux as the only elite, sure-fire player currently in this draft. If he's gone, I'd rather have multiple picks where I can draft several really good players, rather than to stay put and take one very good player that is of equal value to what I could find later in the draft. You try to get the best deal you can before the draft, but if the deals aren't coming, you wait until right before the draft and you make it abundantly clear that you have no parameters to any offer that is made. You're willing to consider any offer. If you do this, you will have other teams, (especially the QB needy teams) that will make offers. It may not be giant deals of the past where you get a kings ransom, but who cares? If the value isn't there for you, take the best offer. 

I also would not be opposed to flipping that pick for a veteran OT. For instance if there is the possibility that we could use the #2, #3 pick or whatever we end up with as part of a deal to land a young, gifted OT like Laremy Tunsil, I'd do that in a heartbeat. This team needs an influx of talent at multiple positions. I'm not gonna put any constraints on how we are able to improve this team. It just has to get done one way or another. I'm open to anything.

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