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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 433603" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The one thing we don’t have to worry about IMO is Thompson reaching for a position of need. If there are three players who would upgrade the Packers at ROLB, DE or at DB and there’s a significantly higher rated player not at a position of need available, I hope and think the accommodation Thompson will make is attempting to trade down so he picks up another pick while still able to get one of the players at positions of greater need. My guess is that’s what happened in the 2008 draft. They liked Jordy Nelson but probably thought he’d still be on the board past pick #30. So they traded #30 for picks #36 and #113, second and fourth rounders. And of course picked Jordy at #36. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Even Thompson’s mentor Ron Wolf made mistakes reaching for positions of need. Although it’s difficult to know for sure since none of us know what the Packers’ board looked like when picks were made, but I’d be amazed if the top rated player in each of the first three rounds of the 1999 draft were CBs. Yet that’s what the Packers took and only the third rounder worked out. It looks to me like Thompson learned that lesson. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 433603, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]The one thing we don’t have to worry about IMO is Thompson reaching for a position of need. If there are three players who would upgrade the Packers at ROLB, DE or at DB and there’s a significantly higher rated player not at a position of need available, I hope and think the accommodation Thompson will make is attempting to trade down so he picks up another pick while still able to get one of the players at positions of greater need. My guess is that’s what happened in the 2008 draft. They liked Jordy Nelson but probably thought he’d still be on the board past pick #30. So they traded #30 for picks #36 and #113, second and fourth rounders. And of course picked Jordy at #36. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Even Thompson’s mentor Ron Wolf made mistakes reaching for positions of need. Although it’s difficult to know for sure since none of us know what the Packers’ board looked like when picks were made, but I’d be amazed if the top rated player in each of the first three rounds of the 1999 draft were CBs. Yet that’s what the Packers took and only the third rounder worked out. It looks to me like Thompson learned that lesson. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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