Grahamburn wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 9:18 am
Sooner06 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 7:23 pm
Three 1sts aren't that much when they're all likely to be between 20-32. i mean, you guys have been picking in that range for what 3-4 years now? how good have most of those guys been? And the reality is that more than 60% of 1st rd draft picks don't re-sign with the team that drafted them, so basically we can say that only 1 out of 3 1st rd players are even starters after a season. So, you trade three picks, two of which you probably weren't going to re-sign anyway, and the one you did re-sign has less than a 3% chance of being elite? sign me up.
Given that, yeah, i'd trade three 1sts and any DL not named Vea for a 26 yr-old future 1st-ballot HoF EDGE in a heartbeat. I guarantee you a team like NE or NYJ would've ponied up a lot more than just a pair of 1st rd picks. Of course, those teams are in a completely different situation than a team like TB. But Micah should've gone for at least 4 picks at a minimum. or whatever Mack went for, he should've drawn at least that much draft capital. And if Jerry had any common sense left he would've announced that Micah was on the block back before the draft and I would bet several house payments some team would've given up a lot more than a measly pair of 1sts.
heck, if Jerry told Licht that Micah could be a Buc for three 1sts and Braswell and Licht refused, he should've gotten fired on the spot, imo.
3 firsts for a defensive position player is unprecedented. 3 firsts AND a player is lunacy.
And there's no guarantee they're late picks. Cleveland thought the picks they were giving up for Watson would be late too.
While there's no "guarantee" that they'll be late picks, the odds are very much in their favor. you actually have to go all the way back to 2009 to find a year in which GB had a pick higher than 20th. And since LaFleur became HC they've picked in the bottom third 4 out of 5 seasons? Put another way, if Parsons hadn't been traded to GB, they were already slated to probably get into the playoffs as a WC, which would put them in the bottom third of next year's draft anyway. it's a pretty safe bet.
As for the trade itself, Khalil Mack was traded for four picks, including a pair of 1sts, at age 31, so it's not like the Parsons deal was "unprecedented." And parsons is just 26, and he's a better player. which is probably why nearly all the talking heads, as well as former GMs, scouts, players are almost unanimously saying that Jerry got fleeced only getting a pair of low-end 1sts.
