The hypothetical Jared Allen/rookies poll

[Chief_in_Commander]

Originally Posted by the Talking Can

you still don't understand what we're doing....

these picks are important beyond the players chosen, these picks gave us the confidence/luxury of drafting for value and not reaching...

the only goal is to build a complete team that can compete for a Superbowl...if we do that then the trade was a success regardless of what you think of any individual player....

this kind of score keeping is just latent True Fan anxiety...

exactly, our draft outlook was completley effected by the ja trade. Us just drafting good players and not reaching for anybody is what made it a good draft. There was absolutely no reason to pay ja the kinda money minnesota did and we got 3 players for someone who was leaving next year anyway........win win