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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I've never quite understood the logic of saying that a 2nd-round pick this year is equivalent to a 1st-round pick next year. Draft picks aren't like money; there's no inflation to dwindle a player's value. Other than the risk that the NFL will shut down, it's merely a decision between immediate gratification and delayed gratification.
I recognize that in 2008 it's nicer to have a player on the field right now, but from a big-picture perspective the goal is to put the best players on the field over a specific time period. In 2018, it will be nicer to have another guy on the field then.
Ask the Redskins and the Chargers if it really helped them when Bobby Beathard would acquire 2nd-round picks on draft day by trading his next year's 1st-round picks. I don't think it was a good idea.
Put another way, how many of you would trade our 1st round pick in 2016 for a 7th-round pick next week? I would hope that no one would.
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I have never understood it either. I think they got a good value for JA, but in no way did we get the value of 2 first rounders. Could those two third round choices be packaged to move up to a #1? No, you can not get someone to do that. You can read all you want in to a chart, the bottom line is will teams give you that value? The answer quite clearly is no...well, unless maybe you get Cerrano and Snyder of the Redskins on the line. No telling what dumb and dumber might do.