Or they think / thought QBs would go #1 and #2 and needed a backup plan. Or they don’t think Sanders and/or Dart are week 1 starters but do not want to pass up on a QB with a top 5 pick again like they’ve done several times. Relying on Russell Wilson to not get you fired is about a bone headed as it gets!
Only reason they don’t take a QB with one of their top 2 picks is the owner gave them the green light to tank for Arch.
This does not move the needle for me at all. As much as we all love Tre, his best days are way behind him and he’s nothing more than a backup CB. I pray I’m wrong and he someone returns to his all pro days.
Beane has conditioned us to expect a Rd 1 pick that won’t contribute immediately or ever and later round picks that contribute are better picks than the first round pick.
Define modern era please. People use this as an example because it is the example which make the case for this precedented. Therefore, since there is precedence, the trade scenario is demonstrably possible, yet highly improbable.
In Cleveland it’s logical to say Haslam is making the calls, and we all know the quality of his decision making. Giants aren’t winning anything with Russ at QB. If they don’t go QB they might be open to trade down to add more pieces and pick up a QB in the lower rounds. Giants might subscribe to quantity over quality approach to improve their awful roster.
I’m not advocating for or against this move, I’m simply saying GMs wouldn’t laugh and hang up on you if you offered 3 x 1st round picks to move up to 4.
3 x 1st round picks to get into the top 4 is most definitely something a team drafting in the top 4 and doesn’t want to be in the top 4 would consider.
Closest example would be the 2011 Draft Falcons traded #27, a 2nd, 4th and the next years 1st to move up to #6 for Julio Jones.
Drafting busts and/or players who don’t/or negatively contribute in the biggest games is not a good strategy. Beane has a bad track record of drafting in round #1. Trade up, trade down, or trade for a player.
The biggest delta between the Bills and the Chiefs is the contributions of the players drafted in rounds 1/2 the last 3 years.