Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 17419428)

What about swinging the below trade with the Eagles?

Philly: #32 + Sneed
KC: #22 + #53

We move up 10 spots in the first to get our BPA at OT or WR, and we get #53.

KC picks:
#22
#53
#64

EDIT: Shit, this would even position us to slide up further if there's a guy in the 12-16 range we covet.

Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 17419428)

What about swinging the below trade with the Eagles?

Philly: #32 + Sneed
KC: #22 + #53

We move up 10 spots in the first to get our BPA at OT or WR, and we get #53.

KC picks:
#22
#53
#64

EDIT: Shit, this would even position us to slide up further if there's a guy in the 12-16 range we covet.

Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 17419428)

What about swinging the below trade with the Eagles?

Philly: #32 + Sneed
KC: #22 + #53

We move up 10 spots in the first to get our BPA at OT or WR, and we get #53.

KC picks:
#22
#53
#64

EDIT: Shit, this would even position us to slide up further if there's a guy in the 12-16 range we covet.

Originally Posted by Pinchshot (Post 17419451)

We're not getting the 3 peat with BOTH Jones and Snead. There's no one in the draft that will make an impact like those 2.

Originally Posted by Pinchshot (Post 17419451)

We're not getting the 3 peat without BOTH Jones and Snead. There's no one in the draft that will make an impact like those 2.

Originally Posted by Pinchshot (Post 17419451)

We're not getting the 3 peat without BOTH Jones and Snead. There's no one in the draft that will make an impact like those 2.

Originally Posted by Pinchshot (Post 17419451)

We're not getting the 3 peat without BOTH Jones and Snead. There's no one in the draft that will make an impact like those 2.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17419500)

I've heard "We're not doing X" far too often over the last two seasons to think it will ever EVER apply.

We MIGHT not get the job done one of these years. In fact every season the odds favor that we won't. The field is a better bet every time.

But how can anyone watch what we've seen the last 2 seasons and say "eh, we're not going anywhere" on the basis of losing a single player not named Patrick Mahomes?

We don't NEED both of those guys to 3-peat. We didn't need Tyreek Hill to win in 2022. We didn't need DeAndre Hopkins to win in 2023. We won't need Chris Jones and La'Jarius Sneed in 2024.

Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 17419513)

A moderate upgrade at the WR group would offset Sneed's departure

Originally Posted by Titty Meat (Post 17419358)

Why?

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17419406)

The NFC is just so wide open. And the FA market is flush with cash to the point that it's actually a little dangerous to go dabbling in it.

I believe it was like the 2013 NBA offseason (edit: 2016 offseason) where all the TV money hit at once and the cap went up something like 30% in a single offseason. Everyone had money and man did they spend it in the stupidest ways imagineable. Pretty much every team that signed a FA regretted it immediately.

That's just what happens in a flush marketplace. Stupid money gets thrown around and the only way to win at that point is not to play.

Well the Lions HAVE to get better. The NFC is too wide open and they came too far (and too fast) to just sit on their hands. They need to improve their defense and the smart way for them to do that is to avoid FA in the process.

So you trade for Sneed and his tag charge, use that as leverage to put together a more reasonable extension and you're cooking with gas.

Absolutely everything about a trade for Sneed makes sense from the Lions perspective. The only question will be how much you could extract from them in the process. It would likely be a pretty fair amount.