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Since this was a constant theme of sport radio leading up to this week -- the Pats and their propensity for trading down instead of keeping picks or trading up -- I thought I'd revisit a 2009 Draft Day trade, courtesy the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/sports/football/26draft.html?_r=1&ref=football
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In a trade with the Cleveland Browns, the Jets gave up three players who were probably going to be spare parts, the 17th pick over all and their second-round pick this year to move up to the fifth spot to take Southern California quarterback Mark Sanchez. It’s debatable whether the new Browns coach, Eric Mangini, hurt the Jets again — or finally helped them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/sports/football/26draft.html?_r=1&ref=football
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For two years in a row, the Jets have made the daring decision to get a franchise quarterback, although Sanchez, part of the biggest draft-day trade in the team’s history, will cause delight or despair for far longer than last year’s Brett Favre dalliance did.
Sanchez was part of a quarterback class considered one of the weakest in years, but he was one of the three quarterbacks selected in the first round. Matthew Stafford was selected first over all by Detroit, and Josh Freeman was chosen by Tampa Bay with the 17th pick.