Good Morning everyone.  First let me say that I am cautiously observant of the new regime.  I neither have faith or distrust I am just objectively waiting to see how things pan out.  I don't have a bone to pick either way I am just making observations as they come along. 

 

 

From the pages i have read there is no official word on the compensation for the above and entitled trade so i leave out that caveat but if the reports are true that we are talking about 2-3 third day selections in this years upcoming draft i am severely disappointed in that return.  Eugene Monroe is a top half of the league LT (premium position) in the prime of his career (26 years old.)  That screams multiple second day picks if not a late first all things being equal.

 

I fully understand the fact that the team probably wasn't looking to resign him.  At the same time with my baseline understanding of the compensatory pick system leads me to believe that his signing bonus alone for a player at his position and his age would have garnered a late 2015 3rd Rd. pick, not to mention that there would have probably been at least one or two teams interested if we tried to franchise and trade him. 

 

I understand that we are building for the future.  I understand that its cool to think to yourself that we will probably have about 12 draft picks next year (7 base, one from trade Mike Thomas, 2 Compensatory picks (possibly third rounders because cox got paid and D-Smith is balling) and the picks from this trade) but that doesn't mean anything if those picks are concentraed on the third day of the draft.  I think that it would have been more in line with that train of thought to ask for a 2 + 3 in 2015 to still maintain the value of the player.  That's how the pats got a 1st for richard Seymour at the end of his career. 

 

I think that it probably hurt the Monroe's Draft stock that the entire O-line probably looks bad on tape.  So when he was on the phone with the premier exec of our generation im sure that ozzie pointed out the fact that Right now Monroe wasn't playing at the highest level and what was probably moderate to high interest in Monroe as a trade consideration at the beginning of the season from other potential suitors probably wained and its most likely that ozzie was the last person on the phone.  I understand that, but at the same time i think that we drastically undervalued a key asset.  In totality there is about 1 chance in 25 that we will ever find a player of Monroe caliber on the third day of the draft and from their perspective there's about a 1 in 25 chance that the late round picks they ever gave up would have a player like Monroe Left on the board so I think that It's hard to argue that the Ravens fleeced us for Monroe...  But hey it could be worse.  They could have fleeced us for Derrick Harvey LOL...  hey wait...  Can we just stop calling these people?

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