(03-19-2018, 10:52 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-19-2018, 10:05 AM)Bullseye Wrote: Precisely.  If you correctly evaluate talent, the value takes care of itself.

The problem in this discussion and those like it is that value is way too often determined by whether you traded down to get your guy or not, absent other considerations.

If you spend your time chasing value instead of talent, you end up like Cleveland, who traded their way out of Wentz, Conklin, and Watson.

Another problem of trading down is how many of these rookies will actually make the roster? There are not many spots available right now so if the Jags get 8-9 rookies in the draft, how many will you really have to cut?

That's a problem for this team now, though you could argue it still worked for the 1986 49ers and more recently, the Patriots.

I just think those nitpicking over Caldwell's failure to trade back are losing sight of the big picture. 

This team is, as a general rule, more talented than those that have traded back and gotten huge draft pick windfalls in recent years, and it shows in terms of how far the Jaguars have advanced as opposed to these other teams.

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