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Originally Posted by patteeu
I included Mitchell to be fair. He was a starter, but no one is going to mistake him for a star. Brandon Flowers was a 2nd rounder too, iirc, so it's clearly possible to get star-quality players in the second round. But the people wringing their hands over the compensation we gave up for Alex Smith aren't recognizing the miss rate on those picks.
The bottom line is that if Alex Smith pans out, the compensation was cheap. If he doesn't, he wouldn't have been worth even a single second day pick.
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I think my biggest beef is those picks could be used as ammo if we want to move up in the 1st next year for our QBOTF, more so than the players we lose at those picks.
We should have just offered up the 2nd this year and if they get a better offer just go get Kolb as a stop gap for a 5th. There is little difference between Kolb and Alice and Kolb knows Reids system.