Jets trade up to #3

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Buffalo is probably in panic mode at this point. Traded up to 12 in anticipation of going even further for a QB.

I’d say they leap to 2. They have to. They’ve done too much work to make this happen.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Buffalo is probably in panic mode at this point. Traded up to 12 in anticipation of going even further for a QB.

I’d say they leap to 2. They have to. They’ve done too much work to make this happen.

Two 1sts this year, a 1st next year, and...?

[pugsnotdrugs19]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Two 1sts this year, a 1st next year, and...?

Probably a 2nd or 3rd this year. Just a guess.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Probably a 2nd or 3rd this year. Just a guess.

It'll be interesting. Jets made this move surprisingly early, but they really ****ed the Bills over so it just might be worth it, unless the Giants don't take a QB and the Bills make a draft day trade with the Browns.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Buffalo is probably in panic mode at this point. Traded up to 12 in anticipation of going even further for a QB.

I’d say they leap to 2. They have to. They’ve done too much work to make this happen.

Surely Lamar Jackson would still be available.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19

Buffalo is probably in panic mode at this point. Traded up to 12 in anticipation of going even further for a QB.

I’d say they leap to 2. They have to. They’ve done too much work to make this happen.

Found this:


The draft capital we'll give up is house money, even if it's all the way up to the Giants' #2 pick.

(Obviously all of this is merely opinion :flirt: ... I apologize for adding one more thread to a seemingly inundated and frustrated board)


Our #12 pick was the result of swapping 1sts and trading away a player who may have played well for this team in years past but almost never saw the field (did he ever?) in 2017, our first playoff year in 17 years as a rookie filled in capably for the year and will only get better.

Our #22 pick was from KC last year in our trade down in the 1st where we acquired a guy in Tre White who probably should have been in the pro bowl conversation if not the pro bowl itself.

One of our 2nd rounders was acquired trading away a talented but oft-injured WR who then wasn't even resigned by the same team who traded for him. And based on Sammy's new salary with KC, he wouldn't be with the Bills even if McDermott exercised his 5th year rookie option.

One of our 3rd rounders... the 1st one in the 3rd round, was acquired by trading away a QB that there was absolutely no long term plan on and filled in his slot with a QB who is at least capable of competing for the starting QB job at less than 1/3rd the cost of the guy we just traded away.


We take those 4 picks, all "house money," and trade them all to the Giants for the #2 pick to grab Rosen/Darnold/Mayfield (please GOD not Allen!!!) and Beane still has all of Buffalo's original picks with a pick in all the remaining rounds other than the 7th.


And before you say that cost isn't realistic, if you take a look at the Jimmy Johnson draft chart, I think you'll find different:


#12 = 1200 points
#22 = 780 points
#53 = 370 points
#65 = 265 points

Grand total = 2615 points

#2 pick = 2600 points


So we're giving away picks Beane has been shrewdly acquiring, not picks we were already going to naturally possess. Now, perhaps it's going to take one more pick like a 2nd rounders next year to sweeten the pot a little, but maybe not.

And that's in trading up to #2, which I believe is the highest we're going. Imagine if we wait until draft day and see a guy we want fall to #4 with the Browns or #6 with the Colts... it'll cost less and we'll still get our QB.

I'm a little baffled that some are complaining about the idea of giving up draft picks, even if it ensures McBeane can get "their guy."

I view this as the most important draft we've seen since maybe 1983 because we know with almost 100% certainty that the intent is to draft the guy who's going to be our QB for the next 10-15+ years.

We can do that in a very strong QB draft class... and we can do it with house money.