(05-19-2023, 08:05 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(05-19-2023, 07:58 AM)Mikey Wrote: If I want a guy bad enough, I'll lie to your face to get what I want.

Sure I might have to repay the favor down the road to win back some trust, but I wouldn't rely on anything anyone says on darft night.

I also heard we were considering a trade for Jonah Williams. Could you imagine THAT stinkeroo of a deal?

The Giants and the Bills both kept their promises, and we did not trade for Jonah Williams.

So why be negative about things that did not happen?

And besides, if the Giants or the Bills had betrayed us, the whole league would've known about it, and who would trust them then?  So they weren't going to do that.

There's a big difference between "we evaluated our board, the deals offered and the likelihood that our guy would still be on the board, and that's why we made the deal" and "the gints pinky promised they weren't taking our guy so we were happy to get a late round pick to let them jump ahead of us"

Whether another GM pays you lip service or not, you're still taking on risk moving off the pick. The new team could just as easily trade the pick to someone else who did want the offensive player, for the right price. Technically, the team upheld their promise to us, right? 

If either team took an offensive player when we moved, we'd have looked the fools for allowing ourselves to get duped so easily. If we took offense to being lied to, I imagine the sentiment around the league would have been "well, duh!" or something a little more professional with the same dismissive ridicule attached.

I'm not decrying our moves. We gambled, and it worked out. But if we are seriously thinking that a rival team's word was security enough to mitigate the risk of moving, we are in fact fools.

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