People make a big deal out of it due to the trade.
But I don’t think it was really a reach for them to take Trey where they did. (can’t remember all that much of the draft).
They paid what they had to in order to move up.
They missed on a top 5 pick, which isn’t all that uncommon. The draft if a crap shoot no matter what.
I don’t know that the fact that they weren’t there to begin with means anything.
It was QB heavy draft with Lawarence, Wilson, Lance going 1, 2, 3.
Fields went 11 & Jones 15.
Minnesota’s trade for Herschel Walker is still the worst. It literally created the Cowboy dynasty.
A 10 year old article on the worst trades in NFL history:
I personally cannot value a QB anywhere near as high as most NFL GMs. But I do not think the Lance trade/pick was the worst thing ever. SF did make the NFC championship game both years after the draft. Had Purdy not been effective, Lance would have played and MAYBE become their guy and would hopefully evolve over time. It’s not SF’s fault that they made one of the best draft picks of all time which ultimately hurt the assessment of the Lance trade.
Hard to argue with #1 on your list.
If this list was updated, I expect the 2022 Russell Wilson deal would easily make the list.
barnwell also noted that the trade did not work out for SF, but we can’t call lance a bust. that;'s TBD. the 49ers busted on the trade though.
there were many QB needy teams who passed on maholmes. looking back on stuff like that is bonkers.
possible . . . but I’d like to see how 2023 plays out with a HC that knows how to HC.
You can’t trade up w so much certainly and blow it. The 49ers trade 2 future 1s for 6 positions. Jets at least just blew their pick but he may work out with the kindler, gentler Rodgers mentoring him. Happy it was a team in Seahawks division. They won’t be as good as people think.
I’m posting this here even though it’s not directly NFL related: want a free 30 day athletic trial? I have 5 passes. Not sure what they might ask free trial users to provide.
I like their coverage. It’s one of the few media subscriptions I buy,
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The Athletic
No. Thanks.
Since this is more about the NFL draft than about college football, here is where it goes:
That’s a far cry from what had been planned. When his son was being recruited, Carl Williams asked schools what plan they had for his son to be the first pick in the 2024 draft. Now that the draft is a season away and teams like the Arizona Cardinals are poised to have the first pick, Carl’s not so sure.
“The funky thing about the NFL draft process is, he’d almost be better off not being drafted than being drafted first,” Carl Williams said in a recent interview for GQ. “The system is completely backwards. The way the system is constructed, you go to the worst possible situation. The worst possible team, the worst organization in the league – because of their desire for parity – gets the first pick. So it’s the gift and the curse.”
Hey, fun fact: it’s always been like that. Forever. In all American Pro Sports. For the owners’ sake, in order to keep making money and have fans still “believing” in their team (and hoping that it doesn’t leave town!).
Dad Dude needs to realize that ARI will likely turn things around at some point in the next ten years (cuz the draft is designed for it), but I agree that being the QB until the turnaround happens (especially if the teams needs a better OL) is NOT where he should want to be, on a rookie contract.
And, Dude, don’t make your son’s goal to be the #1 pick in the draft if you don’t want him to be drafted by the worst team in the league!! You know what will happen in 2025? The Same Thing!! Must be new to American Sports.
Only solution would then be to force the team you want to be on to trade up to the top, wasting a bunch of draft capital in the process, which hurts the team somewhere down the road.
ITA. The draft set up has nothing to do with “parity”. The way they schedule games might, not the draft.
Also, if you see that you’re likely to be drafted by a team you don’t really like, then get really, really good in another sport–like baseball–and get drafted by a team there. THEN you’ll have leverage to go to a team you like as a rookie.
Well, it is a way to balance teams (some kind of parity), but in a very-long-term way, over time, and other things get in the way of that (looking at you, CLE, JAX, …).
It does not completely compensate for shitty picking, shitty owners, General Management, shitty coaches, shitty weather, or shitty facilities.
I’m thinking more along the lines that you can trade your draft position away. Nothing about parity there; just a specialized application(s) of general economic theory.
And then you look at how many (high quality) players that are obtained in later rounds (Terrell Davis and TB12 anyone?) or undrafted (Tony Romo, Antonio Gates, Wes Welker) . . . and I don’t think you can say that parity plays a huge role for the draft process.
But non-divisional scheduling and salary caps can play a huge role in bringing parity to the league.
Number of terrible (or worse) renditions of the national anthem: 1
That was very bad. Almost Roseanne bad.
Unpossible