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Something that's bugging me...
According to Don Banks and Holley & friends on WEEI, the likeliest scenario for the Pats is to trade with N.O. and draft Jerod Mayo at #10. Yet when the EEI folks were pressed on what the Pats would do if they can't trade down, they were stumped -- because Mayo was obviously out of the question that high, he wouldn't be good value.
Huh? You think an LB they'd leap on at 10 is unthinkable at 7...when the teams drafting 8 and 9 both need linebackers?
There's a similar story with Sedrick Ellis. Nobody thinks Atlanta could possibly take him #3 because of value, yet they're projecting teams trading up to #5 to get him!
It's one thing to take a guy top-5 who should be around a round later, or via a trade down to the 20s. But we're talking a couple of slots. "Not a good value" in that situation looks like a media/fan perception issue -- not something I'd expect BB or his longtime colleague Dimitroff to be driven by.
(This is not to say that I necessarily believe the Mayo rumors; just that I don't think 7 vs. 10 is such a huge difference.)
According to Don Banks and Holley & friends on WEEI, the likeliest scenario for the Pats is to trade with N.O. and draft Jerod Mayo at #10. Yet when the EEI folks were pressed on what the Pats would do if they can't trade down, they were stumped -- because Mayo was obviously out of the question that high, he wouldn't be good value.
Huh? You think an LB they'd leap on at 10 is unthinkable at 7...when the teams drafting 8 and 9 both need linebackers?
There's a similar story with Sedrick Ellis. Nobody thinks Atlanta could possibly take him #3 because of value, yet they're projecting teams trading up to #5 to get him!
It's one thing to take a guy top-5 who should be around a round later, or via a trade down to the 20s. But we're talking a couple of slots. "Not a good value" in that situation looks like a media/fan perception issue -- not something I'd expect BB or his longtime colleague Dimitroff to be driven by.
(This is not to say that I necessarily believe the Mayo rumors; just that I don't think 7 vs. 10 is such a huge difference.)