re: Would you trade 14, 45, and Penning to move up to 5 for Alt?

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Why are this organization and its fans so obsessed with trading away all of our draft picks and wasting them every year?

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1) The Saints have not made this trade

2) It was not my original idea or scenario--it was some national guy's

3) I said in the OP that I wouldn't do it

4) Nobody on planet earth is obsessed with "wasting" draft picks. There are just different philosophies on how best to "use" them.


I mainly started this thread because I'm not a draft expert, but even less of an expert on evaluating offensive tackles and wondered just how much better Alt is supposed to be than the next tier. It seems like he is not just the consensus #1 tackle, but the undisputed #1 tackle. Then a gap and then a group of about 5 with different people favoring different guys. I just don't know how big that gap is and how much of a sure thing Alt is. In as much as there can be a sure thing in an NFL Draft.