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Yeh, I'm so crazy that in the past six drafts there's been one trade involving top five teams. You can speculate all you want about tempting some team to jump up for chump change, but the current trend says teams don't like spending that much on Jamarcus Russel pipe dreams. Further, what owner is going to sign off on that kind of financial commitment if there is a chance of no football in 2011? I may be crazy, and some of those owners are willing to take business gambles, but I don't see them taking your bet.This is crazy talk, the reason there are never trades is because the GMs picking at the top are dolts. If they want to trade down they hold out for max value ( & never get it).
Was this a top five pick? Then it's an apples & oranges diversion. However, as long as you're on this tangent, please link me to reports from all 31 other teams showing where they had Tyson Alualu stacked on their boards, I'd like proof that nobody else was considering him before #24 - Mel Kiper & Co. are not proof.Look at Jax this year, they said they didn't get good enough offers to trade down yet Denver traded down twice from #11 to #24 picking up a 4th rounder & 2 3rds. Jax could of had their guy @24 for less money + picked up 3 other valuable picks, instead they did what most idiotic GMs do & held out for chart value.
Um, my math may be a bit rusty, but per the generic trade value chart floating around the intraweb, the difference between #7 and #10 is 200 points. Per 2008 NFL Draft Trades - NFL - ESPNI guarantee you BB would never get stuck with a high pick if he didn't want it.
Look at the Mayo pick for example, he didn't want to pay #7 $ so traded back to #10 for very little. ( swapped a 5th for a 3rd )
NE gives #7 (1500) + #164 (25.8) = 1525.81, New England traded its first- (No.7) and fifth-round (No. 164) picks to New Orleans for the Saints' first- (No. 10) and third-round (No. 78) picks. New Orleans selected Sedrick Ellis, dt, Southern California and (No. 164). New England selected Jerod Mayo, lb, Tennessee and (No. 78).
NO gives #10 (1300) + #78 (200) = 1500
So if I have this right, NE sweetened the pot by adding 1.72% of the suggested trade value in order to get NO to take the player they wanted and spend 70.77% more in guaranteed money (alone)?
Jerod Mayo
Sedrick Ellis