Someone correct me if I am wrong. If Monroe played the rest of the season here we would have gotten a compensatory pick in the 2015 draft. At best it would have been a third round pick, after all other selections in the third round. The general rule is that  a draft pick  in this year is worth a round higher than a draft pick in the next year. Given this, We got the equivalent of a 2015 3rd and 4th for Monroe versus at best a 2015 3rd. And that is even if the Ravens repeat as SuperBowl winners. Every spot they drop in win/loss rankings is gravy.  
Personally, I think Monroe wasn't playing that well, but am not sure how much of it was compensating for poor guard play. I am pretty sure the staff  thinks Joeckel is the long term answer at left tackle.  They were not willing to pay Monroe big bucks to slide to right, and I doubt Monroe would have gone for it. So Monroe walks after this year. Given the above analysis, how is the deal we got worse than letting him walk?
Talking about what someone else paid for a running back is akin to talking about what Mike Ditka might have given us. I am not talking about the entire universe of potential trades, just what we got versus what we would have gotten had we not resigned him after the season. Thoughts?

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