PFF on the Davenport trade

Seems awfully early for this.

there is some hindsight bias as well (the perfect CB pick from last year, saving us the pick used for Apple and allowing us to know what to theoretically target this year)

Aka two idiots that don't know our roster (long term DE was a HUGE need), overlook what Davenport did and the fact that he will be a complete DE (extremely good against the run and the pass rush moves are coming along), and ignore that he was injured for a good part of the season and played decently through an injury that would keep most guys off the field.

I get the point of you could have had x and y instead. That's always valid. But another CB and whatever we could get this year was not even close to as pressing as a legit 3 down DE.

35,000 sports podcasts “experts” out there looking to sound smarter. It’s been 1 year. I think the kid will be a beast when it’s all said and done. We will know more this year. No trade/pick is worthy of debate after just one year.

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The Saints front office is a f@#king JOKE. They had one good draft for the past decade. They always trade up. Jimmy Johnson always say good teams trade down not up

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Wtf is this shite? You’re filled with dumbass son.

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Anyone critical of the trade at this very moment has an agenda to grind.

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i mean. that's clearly not true in this case. PFF doesn't have an agenda

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PFF doesn't have an agenda

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I value picks so i dont totally disagree with them, but using hindsight to justify staying put is easy to do when you know what players turned out to be good and which ones didnt.

Yea we could have had Derwin James but maybe they would have drafted someone who turned out to be a bum.

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I value picks so i dont totally disagree with them

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Literally their only valid point, but is offset by the need at the position and the extremely high value of that particular position.

And we wound up winning that trade in value (if you go by the chart).

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but using hindsight to justify staying put is easy to do when you know what players turned out to be good and which ones didnt.

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This is definitely where they lost it. Can't play that what if game.

It's also bullshite because they suggested we take James or Alexander instead, but they were long gone before our original pick.

And then they said we could take them AND someone in the first this year. That was literally impossible. We would still had to have used our first to trade up for either of them.

We could have stayed put and took Darius Leonard, but again that's hindsight and we also had just signed Davis and Te'o (or did we sign him later?), had an expensive Klein, and a hopeful good one in Anzalone. Not to mention a solid guy in Robertson to boot.

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Seems awfully early for this.

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Not necessarily. The trade was obviously made with the intention of getting a player who would contribute immediately. Whether Davenport's impact was worth it is certainly debatable.