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Ive recently seen people say that the pats should trade down from their first pick or 1st second pick, for more picks in later rounds, due to either salary cap or just cause to stock more picks. Im sorry but i have to disagree. First off 2nd round pick money does not kill your cap and third with the recent trend of our drafts we dont need more players to hide on IR or cut. Basically the last few years has shown the pats have got virtually nothing from the later rounds. I would like to see them trade 1 pick for next year and use the other picks to move up in different rounds.
2008
Jerod Mayo - STUD
Terrence Wheatley-Playing ok until IR
Shawn Crable-IR (possibly fake IR to avoid cutting him)
Kevin O'Connell -?
Jonathan Wilhite -OK
Matthew Slater-Special Teamer
Bo Ruud -IR
2007
Brandon Meriweather-Lead the team in INT's last year, will only get better
Kareem Brown-Cut
Clint Oldenburg-Cut
Justin Rogers-Cut
Mike Richardson-IR/IR Probably get Cut
Justise Hairston-Cut
Corey Hilliard-Cut
Oscar Lua-Cut
Mike Elgin-Cut
Laurence Maroney -Jury is Out, think he will breakout this year
Chad Jackson -Cut
David Thomas -Non Factor (dissapointed in him, thought he would be better)
Garrett Mills -Cut
Stephen Gostkowski -STUD
Ryan O'Callaghan -Backup
Jeremy Mincey -Cut
Dan Stevenson-Cut
Le Kevin Smith-Backup
Willie Andrews -Cut
It is not common for us to trade down to get extra late picks.
What we do is trade down to get more resources to later trade up (or into next year) with.
I can't remember many times where we traded a 2nd for a 3rd and 6th then used both.
BB uses the picks to get to the parts of the draft he wants to be in.
Usually he will trade down when the player(s) he wants will still be available later. Thereby he gets his player plus the other picks. He will trade up when he sees a run coming on players he has targetted, or more than expected are taken sooner than expected.
I don't think its correct to say that the plan would be to trade down just to get extra 6th and 7ths who will not make the team, thats never been the objective.