TRADE DOWN

[Essex Johnson]

(01-19-2021, 07:08 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: They just traded back a couple years ago when they took Price. It ended disastrously. The guy they were targeting (Ragnow) is now a Pro Bowler and one of the best young centers in the league, and Price is not even a starter.

I get that extra picks are fun to talk about in draft threads, but people act like there are automatically numerous good offers out there no matter how the board falls. Which is not really true.

If some team wants one of the QB’s and makes us a Godfather offer then jump on it. But I don’t want them to just take anything for the sake of an extra pick. The opportunity to grab a top 5 high end talent doesn’t come around that much (hopefully we’re done picking this high). And those guys can be franchise changing. We do not make the playoffs 5 years straight without AJ Green for example. If they had traded that pick and ended up with some just ok players (or worse some busts) it would have been terrible. I’m glad they stayed put and took a player that would go to 7 straight Pro Bowls.

Actually they added Gleen in that trade back, at the time it was praised as an excellent move, getting a top tier tackle and still in position to get one of the top 2 centers in the draft. We act like the center debate was clear then it was not at the time but Ragnow and Price were highly considered lineman, at that time Price was considered one of the top 5 best lineman in OSU history.