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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mayo44" data-source="post: 498023">I'm arguing that you don't know either way.  And how do you know they could have gotten him in the 5th or 6th round?  What information from general managers around the NFL do you possess that qualifies you to make that claim?  For all you know, the Seahawks might have been looking to pick him at #123.  I'm sure if Ted thought he could get him later, then he would have drafted him later.  Most likely, he had knowledge that some teams that were coming up soon were fairly high on him and he pulled the trigger because there is something very specific about Tretter that he liked. I'm not sure you're aware of this or not, but NFL general managers don't get their scouting information from the Walter Football website, or Bleacher Report, or NFLDraftGuru.com, or DraftTek.com.  And they certainly don't get it from idiots like Mel Kiper either. You can spend hundreds of hours scouring every mock draft on the Internet and memorizing every scouting report on cbssports.com, but in the end, you still don't know half of what the guys who actually do the drafting know.</blockquote>

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