Comments on: Draft Trades, Trade Value, & The Atlanta Falcons

By: Greg Huseth

Greg Huseth — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:44:05 +0000

Also, the Falcons part in draft trade history for the 2011 draft is coming to a close much sooner than expected. It could shape the NFL landscape for years, but probably not like the trade that actually happened will

By: Greg Huseth

Greg Huseth — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:07:34 +0000

Well as an update, the Redskins traded three first round picks and a second rounder to the Rams to draft RGIII. Talk about a ‘kings ransom’

By: okfine69

okfine69 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:31:43 +0000

The reason atlanta had to give up so much(besides the fact that the browns had a much higher pick to give up)is because of this. Understand that cleveland is trying to go from bad to good, while atlanta is attempting to go from good to great.
The way the nfl is set up makes it much harder to be great so teams have to be creative. Atlanta was convinced that we had enough good players,but we needed play maker,thus it cause them to be willing to give up picks where we most likely would pick up more “good” players. On the other side cleveland was willing to give up the play maker because they were desperate to get more good players. Reason being a play maker is worthless to a team that doesn’t have any players around him.
When you look at it like this both teams got what they wanted,thus it is a win-win.