TRADE DOWN

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(01-19-2021, 07:22 PM)Synric Wrote: It was a smart move at the time because they needed a left tackle and a center. It didnt work out but that's hindsight.

If who they are specifically targeting isn't there I wouldnt mind them moving back a few spots to say a QB needy team that wants to spend big to move up.

My thoughts exactly. It depends who’s available when they pick. If there’s nobody that fills a need for them in their eyes, why not trade back? Or they could pick a guy a few to several picks before his value if they are extremely high on him.

The main thing I don’t want them to do is reach for a need. If it’s a guy they are really high on then sure. But if you’re somewhat high on the guy and want to take a chance on him to fill a need, it’s just dumb. And then of course hindsight is 20 20.

Price, IMO was a reach. Most had him as an early 2nd rounder pre draft. Ragnow was gone so they just went with their next rated player. They should have traded down again for more picks and then taken him. Maybe there weren’t any takers on a trade, it’s hard to say. But hindsight says they messed that one up big time—but not as much as reaching on Og instead of drafting Bud Dupree (who was the best player on the board). Again, letting Whit walk was the biggest tragedy, because it led to all of these mistakes. We could have had Devin White or someone else if we didn’t trade down with the Bills. If they had Whit in their plans for another 4 years, they wouldn’t have reached on Og as well. They wrongly assumed he wouldn’t last another 4 years. Facepalm.