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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OldSchool101" data-source="post: 1012060" data-attributes="member: 10086">[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.si.com/nfl/packers/news/gutekunst-explains-why-he-traded-rasul-douglas-to-bills[/URL]Interesting article. Kinda what I was thinking.1. That #88 draft slot is a player you expect to slide off your 2nd Round internal draft board. In this case Brian even took it a step further by saying his “top 50 board”2. Rasul would likely not be in our future past 2023 or 2024 best case as he’s nearing 30’s and at this point he’s holding back growth from Valentine. Also we fully expect to have Stokes back early 2024. That means we have Stokes and J’aire as CB1 CB2 and that puts overlap with Rasul (Champagne problems). If Valentine is who we think he is we have our CB3, but we need to get a good look at Valentine now. If he’s not, we can go plan B and draft our CB3 successor.3. We got an unexpected call, which is exactly what I thought. We were not shopping him, but a buyer fell in our lap. Brian said Rasuls’ comments did not provoke the trade. However imo they only helped justify it in Brian’s head also. I think Brian was actually allowing Rasul the chance to be on a Winning program sooner, which is exactly what Rasul just voiced a few days ago. Smart move there and sounded like a really tough call, but too good to pass up also.</blockquote>

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