05-17-2023, 06:01 PM
(05-17-2023, 05:34 PM)Eraserhead Wrote: One of the Jags beat writers already verified through his sources that they didn't approach the Bengals about a trade for Jonah until the day before the draft, and AFTER they found out about Robinson,, so your story doesn't make any sense.
Kelsey was right about "prior" to the draft because it was the DAY before. Anyone saying it was the month before is making stuff up.
He had info about Jags/Bengals talks on Williams well before the draft. I even looked at it in more detail after he let me know. I even posted, in numerous threads, that the NFL teade value chart had us swapping firsts + our 3rd for one their 4ths had exactly equal value.
Have not been in the weeds on the whole ins and outs of his comments on all of the Jonah saga. But can confirm he had good info on the talks with Jax. Plus, realize that JAX may not want to come clean about looking for replacements for guys they ended up keeping. You can lose players like that.
I will say, despite knowing this, I was dubious a trade would get done. Much more so than Soonerspace. Not impossible, but unlikely. I mean, if Jax wanted a tackle, why not just pick one at #24,? It's way cheaper. Maybe their guy gets picked, or they have more value at another spot, so still need one. Could have happened. But then, we had a guy fall to us at #28, we didn't need to move up.
He wasn't alone in thinking/wanting Jonah to get moved.
