This is some more stupid crap. The sig I made for you fits you perfectly. Do you just try to be wrong constantly? Seriously. Ehinger won the starting guard position as a rookie. He needed to bulk up, but still showed enough to win the job immediately and you think he won't be on the team next year?? That is beyond dumb.

"Moneyball" doesn't and can't exist in the NFL.

What Podesta and Sashi Brown are doing is the wave of the now.

Jon Robinson, the Titans GM, is doing the same exact thing: Stockpiling picks to use as ammo for the draft's most talented players each year, then move those picks forward if your "guy" isn't available at the slot.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised it took this long for "tanking" and trading picks to hit the NFL, but then again, it's run by a bunch of old farts.

Ehinger was a clear upgrade over what we had at the time.

Erving is a guy who's upside is far more than that of Ehinger (should he actually stay healthy and stay at G) and we gave up nothing for him.

At worst we added depth to an area of our squad that had almost none (O line.)

It's a smart deal and our Doogie Howser GM is looking pretty good right now...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Terms: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lions?src=hash">#Lions</a> trade guard Laken Tomlinson to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/49ers?src=hash">#49ers</a> for a 5th rounder in 2019, sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo">@MikeGarafolo</a> and me.</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/903291582828380160">August 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Is it me....or is there just a huge amount of trades happening this season? Maybe because the cut down has been changed now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tomlinson trade to the 49ers makes 12 deals this month, the most trades in the month of August in the last decade</p>&mdash; Evan Kaplan (@EpKap) <a href="https://twitter.com/EpKap/status/903293842140655616">August 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I think you're right about the trades. I think the single cut down has forced many GMs into hedging their bets on who would be available on waivers.

ROFLsilly me

NFL GM's are simply realizing that late round picks have far less value and far less of a chance to make the 53, than former 1st round players that have higher ceilings but haven't found early success.

A "change of scenery" is often needed for these types of guys.

And teams that lose tend to get higher picks that tend to play for teams that lose that tend to change coaching staffs and then players aren't a fit.

Only one cut down day as well, guys are flipping picks for guys they want instead of chancing wavers

How many first round busts turn it around elsewhere?

I know these guys didn't... Brandon Weeden, Jonathan Cooper, Jason Smith, A.J. Jenkins, Jonathan Baldwin, Aaron Maybin, Josh Freeman, Amobi Okoye, Brady Quinn, Jarvis Moss, Vince Young, Matt Leinart, etc.

The change in the cut down process is probably responsible for some of these trades. There's a possibility for a crazy amount of waver wire activity on Saturday, with something like a thousand players being released, and I think teams are making trades ahead of the deadline this year that may not have happened in the past.

BINGO !!!

As competitive as Veach has been you wonder how many players on other teams he is still salivating for to pick up that will probably be cut.