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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 440588" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">From this trade value chart (I used the one linked below only because it’s dated 2012 – if someone has a better one I’d be interested in seeing it) that trade would only get them up to about pick #187 in the 6th round. In fact the chart doesn’t even list a value for pick #235, I assigned it two points which is probably optimistic. </span></span></p><p><a href="http://drafttek.com/tradechart.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">http://drafttek.com/tradechart.html</span></span></u></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I made the same argument you’re making before last year’s draft. I reasoned that a Super Bowl winning and deep team didn’t need quantity, just quality so I expected Thompson to trade up and continue the trend of picking fewer and fewer picks each draft (9 to 8 to 7 from 2008 to 2010). So of course Thompson trades down three times in the last draft, picks 10 players and signs 15 UDFA! Don’t get me wrong, I can certainly see Thompson trading up this draft and even execute a more dramatic trade-up than you’re suggesting. But just like those who posted Thompson would not sign a UFA this off season (a reasonable idea based upon history), I am gaining humility in attempting to predict what Thompson will do. BTW, I view Thompson's unpredictability as a good thing.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">And as I’ve posted before, I really don’t think Thompson knows for sure whether he’ll trade up, down, or stay put until he sees how the draft is actually playing out. I do think they look at talent tiers in the draft and that has a lot to do with trading picks. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 440588, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]From this trade value chart (I used the one linked below only because it’s dated 2012 – if someone has a better one I’d be interested in seeing it) that trade would only get them up to about pick #187 in the 6th round. In fact the chart doesn’t even list a value for pick #235, I assigned it two points which is probably optimistic. [/FONT][/COLOR] [URL='http://drafttek.com/tradechart.html'][U][COLOR=#800080][FONT=Tahoma]http://drafttek.com/tradechart.html[/FONT][/COLOR][/U][/URL] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I made the same argument you’re making before last year’s draft. I reasoned that a Super Bowl winning and deep team didn’t need quantity, just quality so I expected Thompson to trade up and continue the trend of picking fewer and fewer picks each draft (9 to 8 to 7 from 2008 to 2010). So of course Thompson trades down three times in the last draft, picks 10 players and signs 15 UDFA! Don’t get me wrong, I can certainly see Thompson trading up this draft and even execute a more dramatic trade-up than you’re suggesting. But just like those who posted Thompson would not sign a UFA this off season (a reasonable idea based upon history), I am gaining humility in attempting to predict what Thompson will do. BTW, I view Thompson's unpredictability as a good thing.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]And as I’ve posted before, I really don’t think Thompson knows for sure whether he’ll trade up, down, or stay put until he sees how the draft is actually playing out. I do think they look at talent tiers in the draft and that has a lot to do with trading picks. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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