ZRagone
December-30th-2010, 10:05 AM
I was thinking about this last night and while its unlikely to occur, I'd love to get the feeling of other Skins fans. Would you be willing to sacrifice the 2011 draft, through trades, in order to get a stacked 2012 draft.
Here would be my scenario. Trade away this years 1st for a 1st the following year and either a 2nd. These trades aren't that uncommon, and I think sitting around the early middle of the first round will be a good spot for us to make such a trade.
Then attempt to trade our #2 and the pick we got in the previous trade to nab a teams #1 and #2 next year. Again, this years #2 for next years #1 isn't unheard of, which means an additional #2 for another #2 is good value for the other team.
Next, see if we can trade our two 5ths this year for a 3rd or 4th in 2012. We go worst case and say a 4th. Similarly dump the 6th and 7th round picks we have for a 5th in 2012.
Finally, we know the market is iffy for Haynesworth and may not be great for McNabb. So instead of searching for a 2011 draft pick, see if we could manage a 2012 instead. 3rd for Haynesworth (Since people were wanting to do 4th in 2011) and a 3rd (hopefully with conditional up to a 2nd) for McNabb in 2012.
This would completely kill off the 2011 draft for us. However, it would give us the following for 2012.
1st - Three
2nd - Two
3rd - Three
4th - Three
5th - Two
6th - One
7th - One
That'd be 8 picks in the first three rounds, with 15 picks total. These would also be picks that would hopefully be coming AFTER the Rookie wage scale that has a good chance of being in the new CBA goes into affect, making it so that those picks aren't as outrageously expensive as they would've been in previous years. It would also give us plenty of draft pick fire power to move around if need be, possibly looking at a 2nd and 3rd combination to move up for ANOTHER 1st rounder.
We have been hearing for some time now that the 2011 Free Agent class is going to be one the best, deepest, and largest of all time. Due to the labor dispute we could be seeing 4th and/or 5th year players becoming free agents this off season. This opens the potential for far younger players to be picked up in free agency who potentially have starting experience and actual NFL tape on them. To me, this would be the prime year to bail out of the draft in order to pump up the following years. You have young guys all over the league that are hungry, have actual NFL tape, and will still be relatively inexpensive. Use this extremely robust free agent crop to fill in the holes that we have for the time being and set up for 2012 to be the true rebuilding year. I think we could still field a competitive team with good evaluation of this free agent class.
With 13 draft picks in the first 5 rounds the Skins could conceivably revamp their team, filling holes both on offense and defense and having a young core that could all grow together.
The one change to the above I would possibly state would be if there was a QB we thought could be had in the 2nd, or in the later rounds, that we would want to draft this year to groom. Someone like a Cam Newton in the 2nd or an McElroy in the 5th. I would say in that case grab them, but continue the rest of the plan, changing where your trades are as needed.
So what would the rest of you fans say. Would you be willing to focus primarily on this unique FA class for 2011 and forfiet this years draft to potentially have a significantly large and front loaded 2012 draft class?
Here would be my scenario. Trade away this years 1st for a 1st the following year and either a 2nd. These trades aren't that uncommon, and I think sitting around the early middle of the first round will be a good spot for us to make such a trade.
Then attempt to trade our #2 and the pick we got in the previous trade to nab a teams #1 and #2 next year. Again, this years #2 for next years #1 isn't unheard of, which means an additional #2 for another #2 is good value for the other team.
Next, see if we can trade our two 5ths this year for a 3rd or 4th in 2012. We go worst case and say a 4th. Similarly dump the 6th and 7th round picks we have for a 5th in 2012.
Finally, we know the market is iffy for Haynesworth and may not be great for McNabb. So instead of searching for a 2011 draft pick, see if we could manage a 2012 instead. 3rd for Haynesworth (Since people were wanting to do 4th in 2011) and a 3rd (hopefully with conditional up to a 2nd) for McNabb in 2012.
This would completely kill off the 2011 draft for us. However, it would give us the following for 2012.
1st - Three
2nd - Two
3rd - Three
4th - Three
5th - Two
6th - One
7th - One
That'd be 8 picks in the first three rounds, with 15 picks total. These would also be picks that would hopefully be coming AFTER the Rookie wage scale that has a good chance of being in the new CBA goes into affect, making it so that those picks aren't as outrageously expensive as they would've been in previous years. It would also give us plenty of draft pick fire power to move around if need be, possibly looking at a 2nd and 3rd combination to move up for ANOTHER 1st rounder.
We have been hearing for some time now that the 2011 Free Agent class is going to be one the best, deepest, and largest of all time. Due to the labor dispute we could be seeing 4th and/or 5th year players becoming free agents this off season. This opens the potential for far younger players to be picked up in free agency who potentially have starting experience and actual NFL tape on them. To me, this would be the prime year to bail out of the draft in order to pump up the following years. You have young guys all over the league that are hungry, have actual NFL tape, and will still be relatively inexpensive. Use this extremely robust free agent crop to fill in the holes that we have for the time being and set up for 2012 to be the true rebuilding year. I think we could still field a competitive team with good evaluation of this free agent class.
With 13 draft picks in the first 5 rounds the Skins could conceivably revamp their team, filling holes both on offense and defense and having a young core that could all grow together.
The one change to the above I would possibly state would be if there was a QB we thought could be had in the 2nd, or in the later rounds, that we would want to draft this year to groom. Someone like a Cam Newton in the 2nd or an McElroy in the 5th. I would say in that case grab them, but continue the rest of the plan, changing where your trades are as needed.
So what would the rest of you fans say. Would you be willing to focus primarily on this unique FA class for 2011 and forfiet this years draft to potentially have a significantly large and front loaded 2012 draft class?