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Does anyone remember reading this board when the 28th draft pick came up last year & a trade was announced that we had traded our 28th pick for S.F.'s '08 #1 & their '07 4th rounder??
90% of the people posting on this board were saying we just got ripped off, horrible trade etc etc.
Sure, I remember. Nobody minded trading away the 1st toward the future -- in fact, many of us predicted such a trade because the draft class was weak. The complaint was that the only sweetener was a 4th! That's extremely unusual, you usually get far more in that situation. It was taken as a sign that BB&SP really, really, really didn't like the 2007 draft class.
The subsequent trade of a 4th for Randy Moss was an absolute steal...but a separate trade. The subsequent torrent of injuries to the 2008 49ers are making the swap of #1s look more valuable than anyone could have imagined, but again that doesn't affect whether a 4th was a good enough sweetener.
This is like the Maroney/Addai thread yesterday: "Hey, looking back in hindsight after a series of unpredictable outcomes I've concluded that XX made stupid blundering decisions in the past!" It does't work that way. You make decisions based on the information at hand.
Besides, I still wish SF had given a 3rd rather than a 4th, don't you? Then it would have been our own 4th we traded for Moss and we would have taken LB Stewart Bradley with the 3rd (per Reiss) rather than Kareem Brown in the 4th.