We all have our opinions !!
I don't know how long you have been watching drafts ?? I've always been one for trading back.Percect examples have been made.The RG111 gift could have been still giving.With the Bills #1 next year there is sure to be a better player after that pick who will have a better NFL career than he ever will almost guaranteed.
Yes The Rams have the players they have and you can't turn back time.I hope G Rob is the next Larry Allen.
-- Look at Dallas & there O-Line ..The Rams will have a great O-Line soon enough.This thing is just getting started.
-What's your take on Tavon ? Joyner -Rams could have had a good LBer with the lose of picks.
Patterson & Allen last year.I'm always a believer of letting the draft come to you.
--Great scouting and drafting for sure.So nice to see.Westbrook is another great UDFA just like Heckler,Bennie,D.Rich(cut).
If it matters how long I've been watching the draft ,since you COULD , my first attention paid to the draft was when the Cardinals drafted Joe Namath and have followed it since,but back then it wasn't on TV. So since 1965
I don't think there are hard and fast rules on trading either way,it mostly depends on the state of your team especially since slotting makes your cap more manageable ,back in the crazy contract days trading down got you so much more bang for the buck it was prudent to do so. Now trading into the fist round
permits a longer contract so a lot depends on what a team wants . Word is the Rams tried to trade up to get Martin as well...oh my if they had and Martin was starting over GROB the humanity!
If you have a team assembled and a player you think is the missing piece to the puzzle like say Luke Kuechly is there then I say being careful to not give too much and trading up is sound . Someone trading up for Andrew Luck instead of RG III would likely be happy .
I was wanting Austin when we drafted him and was OK with the trade ,but since have said if someone wanted to give us the #8 pick in the draft for him I'd do it,but again we're spending a lot of time debating something that will never happen,with an incredibly small body of information,with attitudes as well as "opinions", some of which are determined by a desire to create controversy.
Many times a teams first round pick is not to immediately start, several instances have been given,there have been histrionics asking how long we have to wait ,some going out years.
Sure there are probably gonna be some players one could say "see he's better" drafted later ,but knowing who they are is a given in the mind of those who criticize,and a lot of well paid scouts don't know in advance and neither do we.
The Rams intended to pick one of two players with that pick and they took the best athlete ,from all I've seen neither player would have been available if they'd traded back ,Martin was picked to be a guard ,not a left tackle and I'd say spent his whole preseason working on one position,but GROB was asked to learn two,so can we at least give the kid a commensurate time to learn two positions as we give a player to learn one .
O line doesn't get rotated like all other positions except QB unless they are hurt they stay on the field so they need to be able to do it all,not have specific situational roles to play or come off the field to catch their breath.
I'm far from alarmed about GROB not playing yet and trust that Boudreau and Fisher plan for him to be ready first, being down to our third QB ,IMO it should be self evident why they are being cautious as well,it was always known he'd need to be brought up to speed on pass blocking.
