I'll say it for the 5,000th time since it just doesn't get into anyone's hard head but the post I responded to said the Patriots would have to beat the Bears offer.
And I said why would the Giants require that when the Patriots draft higher? It would be colossally stupid for the Giants to insist on more. Don't they prefer to pick at 15 rather than 20? Why would the Patriots have to BEAT the Bears offer?
We can argue all day about equivalents here--the latter round picks are all fodder, heck the Patriots just traded two away to move up 8 spots in the 2nd round. Who cares? But the real question is a 2nd rounder this year versus a 1st next year. For many teams trading a pick that will grab you a player a year from now diminishes the value of the pick. It absolutely makes sense. You get one year's less use of the player.
But look what happens when you dropped to 20 from 15. You gave up a chance at Parsons, Verah-Tucker and Slater. Bonafide first rounders. Instead, you ended up with Kadarius Toney, a player that half the league had as a 2nd rounder. So congratulations, in your bid to secure a first rounder next year, you ended up with a guy many thought was a 2nd rounder this year. In other words, if that's what the Giants were thinking, they blew it, because there were absolutely no doubts about players like Parsons and Slater.