primetime
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The Raiders picked a goddamn running back with the Mack pick last year. He's a fine running back but he's still just a running back, and this year it's basically a swap of a high 1st for a mid 2nd. The Bears are stuck in hell because they evaluated Trubisky as better than Mahomes or Watson, not because of that trade. They'd be damn good, a Super Bowl favorite perhaps, if they had Mahomes, and they could've gotten him without needing to trade up like nincompoops... hell, they could have traded down.
Draft pick trades don't mean much. Consider the cost to move up one spot to take Trubisky, a headscratcher back then. For the Niners, it turned into Solomon Thomas, Reuben Foster, and Dante Pettis. None of those players were any good. Then again, neither is Trubisky. At least with Mack, it's a known quantity who is extremely good. The list of players I'd give up two 1sts for is pretty small, but Mack would be on it. (Mahomes, Donald, Watt, Mack, Gilmore, Watson, Miller, Julio, Hopkins, Michael Thomas, Wagner, Kuechly, Lawrence, Ramsey - that's probably it, and the linebackers are questionable.)
Draft pick trades don't mean much. Consider the cost to move up one spot to take Trubisky, a headscratcher back then. For the Niners, it turned into Solomon Thomas, Reuben Foster, and Dante Pettis. None of those players were any good. Then again, neither is Trubisky. At least with Mack, it's a known quantity who is extremely good. The list of players I'd give up two 1sts for is pretty small, but Mack would be on it. (Mahomes, Donald, Watt, Mack, Gilmore, Watson, Miller, Julio, Hopkins, Michael Thomas, Wagner, Kuechly, Lawrence, Ramsey - that's probably it, and the linebackers are questionable.)