[keg in kc]

I am in general far more in favor of trading down than I am in trading up. I don't think it's worth it from the standpoint of the team giving up the picks to move, and that's been in past years. (I'm talking in terms of big jumps up; if we're talking 3-4 picks that's something else). I think this year may end up being the most expensive ever in terms of moving up, into top-5 territory, and I don't think a move from our position is very likely or worth what it will take. I don't know how much I agree or disagree with Pioli in general, but I do not believe that any one player, even a franchise quarterback, is worth the number of other players that I think it will take this year.

As far as the possibility of trading down, fine, stay put and draft a quarterback there. I have no problem with that. I think you're going to have to pick in the first two picks to get the Luck/Griffin, and I don't think we have what it takes to get there or that should spend it if we did. I do think it would be worth it to pick a second tier quarterback, whoever that might be. Let's say we get this year's equivalent of Mark Sanchez at the spot he should have been taken, that is to say somewhere between 10 and 25. Or trade down and take the next one later in the round, whoever this year's equivalent of Josh Freeman is. That's still a player with a fair chance of developing into the quarterback that you want, certainly (IMO...) a better alternative than trading for the next Matt Cassel or hoping that a low round pick blossoms into the next Tom Brady.

All that said, I doubt we go QB...