04-13-2016, 07:29 PM
(04-13-2016, 07:11 PM)Nately120 Wrote: The Palmer trade was an obvious no-brainer. He seemed 100% determined to never play for Mike Brown/Marvin Lewis again, so getting anything much less a king's ransom for him was amazing.
That's how I like looking at this question. He wasn't going to play and you made a huge haul. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't like looking at the players that were actually drafted but the value of the pick itself. Jones and Iloka were great finds, but drafting one of those types with the extra pick in the Zeitler trade makes that haul look better vs Thompson as a player. It also gets complex when you look at the Nelson deal, would the genius of that deal look the same if they didn't lock him into that sweet contract? When we look at CJ for Jones do we think find it amazing until we think of what they could have got from the Redskins a year prior? I don't like all the extra variables over what they landed at the time. The simplest answer is the Palmer trade gave the most, regardless of whoever they actually drafted. To me, trading for fair value and drafting correctly are two separate ideas.
