Kansas City is trading its first-round pick Thursday night, along with three other picks in the 2021 and 2022 drafts, to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl OT Orlando Brown and one pick in the 2021 draft and another in 2022, per sources.
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
The main reason I like this is that when you sit at 31, you’re counting on 30 other teams passing on your guy. Some will take other positions, but several offensive tackles will be selected before our pick. You’ll be choosing the best OT that 30 other teams didn’t want.
If you move up to get your guy, you’re giving up way more than we gave up for Brown AND you’re getting an unproven player. Is he Joe Thomas or Robert Gallery (lol Raiders).
I never thought the compensation would be this reasonable. Hard to find an issue with this. I like this more than giving an old Trent Williams a huge contract.
Absolutely. You’re hoping a Tackle falls to 31 that has limited snap at LT, or hoping a small school player can make the transition, or taking a Tackle that has a lot of questions surrounding his play.
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
Awesome job Veach.
So let me ask the experts what is the downside of Brown and why did they want to trade him?
Not an expert on the deal but I don't know that there is alot of "downside" per se.
They have Stanley at LT, who is All-Pro calibur. He got hurt, so they kicked Brown from RT to LT to cover for him last year.
Now Brown doesn't want to go back to RT. They aren't moving Stanley out of that LT spot to keep Brown there, certainly. Stanley is even better than Brown.
I'd say, if there is any downside, it's that Brown is probably a little big, a little slower footed, than what what Reid typically likes. It would do him well to drop about 15 pounds IMO. Other than that, I'm not sure there is much not to like.
I think, for Baltimore, it's getting some pretty great value for a guy they took in the later 3rd round and who doesn't want to play RT for them anymore.
I don't think Baltimore really got "fleeced" by us. You pick of a 1st, 3rd, and 4th for a 3rd round pick player and 2nd, you did okay in flipping draft resources. Would they have preferred that Brown went back to RT with no quarrels? No doubt about it. They would have had the best bookends in the NFL, bar none. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Where's Peej? Lllllllllllllloaded!
In all seriousness, assuming these new members of the OL can play well together, I just can't realistically see much stopping us this season outside of injury.
Popped in for a bit for a "niiiiice".
But......llllllllllllloaded lllloaded is better [Reply]