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I never quite understand why people get so excited over trades like this. Ultimately the "crime" depends on what the players available at #29 end up being, versus the players taken with the picks the pats got from the Vikings. It's a two dimes and a nickel for a quarter type trade basically. If the pats hit on their picks, and the guys available at #29 prove to be busts, great. If the Vikings, or a player the Pats had interest in at #29 end up being pro-bowlers, and the Pats trio of picks end up as Chad Jackson, Darius Butler, and Brock Williams redux, then who's guilty of theft? It certainly wouldn't be the Patriots. Some teams trade quantity for quality, and have no regrets.
Personally, I like the deal simply because of the context of this draft. There's as good a shot of hitting on a player on Day 2, as there is late on Day 1. It's why lots of guys projected to go yesterday are still on the board. Plus, teams are going to be gobbling up QB's and reaching for OL I think, which could push a Robert Woods into Patriots territory. Honeybadger at #59 maybe? The bottom line is we won't know who won the deal, or committed a "crime", until a few years from now.
Personally, I like the deal simply because of the context of this draft. There's as good a shot of hitting on a player on Day 2, as there is late on Day 1. It's why lots of guys projected to go yesterday are still on the board. Plus, teams are going to be gobbling up QB's and reaching for OL I think, which could push a Robert Woods into Patriots territory. Honeybadger at #59 maybe? The bottom line is we won't know who won the deal, or committed a "crime", until a few years from now.