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Packers 1st round selection, #12 overall: Rashan Gary, DE
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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 879374"><p>Who was Gutekunst's "best player available" at the original pick, #30? In the 4th. round? We'll never know and we shouldn't care because Gutekunst sure didn't. Who was the best player available at #35 in a trade down if NE had traded up to #25 and taken Love? Forget Dillon at #62 as the "best player available"; what about in the high 40's / low 50's packaging #62 with the extra pick from the trade down from #30 along with the 4th. rounder spent on Love?</p><p></p><p>For a guy we are led to believe is the QB of the future, why trade up to #26 and not #25 or #24 or higher? Not the BPA at #25 or #24, but the QB of the future at #26? That does not sound plausible. The asking price of a 4th. rounder to move where he did was cheap; the asking price to to get to #25 or #24 may have been a little too expensive. Now you're talking about risking losing the "best player available" and the "QB of the future" for somewhat better compensation? Gutekunst knew he was reaching for Love. I seriously doubt that player was the "best available" at that spot but he reckoned he reached high enough where nobody else would go. It's "lucky" he was right that Belichick was not as "smart" as him. Or how about SF taking him as a backup at #25? If history is any indication the 49er's could go 4-12 or worse with Beathard at QB if Garoppolo blows a knee in camp. SF was dumb enough to roll the dice on a healthy QB and add a receiving weapon while de-rostering the RB group. Good thing they're "stoopid", but I digress.</p><p></p><p>This BPA nonsense could get more traction under Thompson because he rarely messed with trading picks. If he was picking at #30, that's where he picked and he waited for the board to fall out. Once you see a GM moving around the board the BPA argument seriously erodes.</p><p></p><p>The fact of the matter is unless you see some generational player, which Love and Dillon certainly are not, needs factor heavily into the equation, plain and simple. Need, projection and cost go into the pot, get stirred around, and out comes a pick, or a trade. And since only fans and media don't look past this season's horizon, while GMs look further out as the Love pick attests, the need associated with Dillon is clear: he's the guy that's supposed to prevent having to pay Jones big money. Of course, it might not turn out that way but that's the deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 879374"] Who was Gutekunst's "best player available" at the original pick, #30? In the 4th. round? We'll never know and we shouldn't care because Gutekunst sure didn't. Who was the best player available at #35 in a trade down if NE had traded up to #25 and taken Love? Forget Dillon at #62 as the "best player available"; what about in the high 40's / low 50's packaging #62 with the extra pick from the trade down from #30 along with the 4th. rounder spent on Love? For a guy we are led to believe is the QB of the future, why trade up to #26 and not #25 or #24 or higher? Not the BPA at #25 or #24, but the QB of the future at #26? That does not sound plausible. The asking price of a 4th. rounder to move where he did was cheap; the asking price to to get to #25 or #24 may have been a little too expensive. Now you're talking about risking losing the "best player available" and the "QB of the future" for somewhat better compensation? Gutekunst knew he was reaching for Love. I seriously doubt that player was the "best available" at that spot but he reckoned he reached high enough where nobody else would go. It's "lucky" he was right that Belichick was not as "smart" as him. Or how about SF taking him as a backup at #25? If history is any indication the 49er's could go 4-12 or worse with Beathard at QB if Garoppolo blows a knee in camp. SF was dumb enough to roll the dice on a healthy QB and add a receiving weapon while de-rostering the RB group. Good thing they're "stoopid", but I digress. This BPA nonsense could get more traction under Thompson because he rarely messed with trading picks. If he was picking at #30, that's where he picked and he waited for the board to fall out. Once you see a GM moving around the board the BPA argument seriously erodes. The fact of the matter is unless you see some generational player, which Love and Dillon certainly are not, needs factor heavily into the equation, plain and simple. Need, projection and cost go into the pot, get stirred around, and out comes a pick, or a trade. And since only fans and media don't look past this season's horizon, while GMs look further out as the Love pick attests, the need associated with Dillon is clear: he's the guy that's supposed to prevent having to pay Jones big money. Of course, it might not turn out that way but that's the deal. [/QUOTE]
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