I don't think they want to invest that amount
of draft capital into a second tier QB.
As Bills fans, we have recent experience with the difficulties of using high - end
draft capital on players with medical red flags.
You
spend draft capital like a # 5 pick like your job is on the line if they don't help you win the first 4 games of the season.
We will see
more draft capital used towards the defense this year due to the changing scheme.
The idea being to take players in the second round and have
enough draft capital to move up to get your guy w the next pick.
It was expected they'd draft one, pulling a move like this and giving up this
much draft capital looks like they are determined to get one of the top prospects.
No way we trade for him while giving up
high draft capital without having an agreement with him on a long term deal.
Importantly, I compared the 2018 draft with expected comp picks to to past
draft capital after draft day trades.
I just think we have
limited draft capital this year and might not want to use our only day 1 pick on a position where good value can be found in later rounds.
On draft weekend they should consider a trade down to attain
extra draft capital and still get him.
If you're suggesting it would be a bad use
of draft capital to be really good in the trenches, I can't follow that concern at all.
The Patriots held tight to the protocol that brought them five Super Bowl rings while earning additional
draft capital in the process.
But in the context of accumulating several WR2's, why spend 1st
round draft capital on someone you don't want / expect to be a WR1?
That means Buffalo might have to give up a huge amount of
draft capital if they want to go get a quarterback.
Not that I don't like Hurst but I'd rather get Gesicki in the mid rounds than spend
early draft capital Hurst.
Flip a 2nd rounder for Alex and we end up better off in
draft capital because of the compensation and get a QB upgrade at 17M / yr
Since Denver won't be making quite as big of a leap, there will be less
draft capital given up.
If after all we've done and traded away to
acquire draft capital, we watch Darnold land in Cleveland, Rosen in NYC and Mayfield in New England (as one example) and maybe have Lamar Jackson (or Josh Allen - who I do NOT like as a prospect, at all) go 11th ahead of us as we stay at pick 12...
We stripped cap space albatrosses, set ourselves up for massive cap in 2019,
accumulated draft capital, moved up in the draft, and made the playoffs while providing a visibly different football product than in prior years.
but we do have a lot picks in the range where you can get a decent TE, not to mention the second
most draft capital since TT took over — only 2006 does better 1.
Packaging all 5 picks runs them all the way up to # 3, and they don't even have to give up next
years draft capital to do it.
You tried with for examples to make your personal point in how teams overpay in
draft capital when trading up for QBs... and I refuted all 4 with facts showing the opposite.
History repeating itself would be great news for the Patriots, who, like in 2012, are coming off a Super Bowl loss but loaded
with draft capital.
If some
future draft capital had been spent for on a couple of positions to have pushed us past the Seahawks in that NFCCG, well, we'd have one more Lombardi on display in Santa Clara.
Moving up to get one of the top four quarterbacks in this year's draft would've cost
HUGE draft capital.
The young QB suddenly has an NFL caliber set of WR to pass to and they can
focus draft capital on things like trades / OL / Defense.
The Jaguars can't draft a quarterback to save their life, they hang on to the bad ones for years too long, they waste
draft capital reaching for guys like Derrick Harvey and Justin Blackmon, and then they mismanage their team, roster, scheme — EVERYTHING — as if it were 1995 again.
If your QB is Case Keenum on a two year deal, your picking at five and have
major draft capital in the deepest QB draft in the last five years and likely the next five years, and you pass or fail to move up.
It has always seemed to me that if you wanted an NFL - ready guard, you had to pay
big draft capital for them, but once you had them, it was a pretty safe buy.
Unfortunately for New York's other team, they've got a limited amount of
draft capital left after dealing with the Colts and have several roster holes to fill.
we're not looking for offensive starters in the draft other than possibly a G. all that
other draft capital should be spent to replenish the D.
Instead, both D.J. Moore and Da'Ron Payne were seen as good first - round options without having to trade
away draft capital.
For example, right now the Pats, who do have a need at QB, have
enough draft capital to get up to 9 by only trading their two # 1 picks.
If you have to develop a player for a couple of years, you shouldn't be spending
high draft capital on him, IMHO.
We don't necessarily have to
spend draft capital on a QB now either, and if we do get a rookie QB, they can develop.
Since we have several needs to address, I'd actually prefer a trade down a few spots and get
more draft capital for next year, since we'll be drafting last in the first round.
looking to waste your biggest asset (early
round draft capital) on a bench warmer and QB who cant make throws from the pocket.
After trading up to get Patrick Mahomes a year ago, the Chiefs entered 2018 without
much draft capital.