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Does anyone think that other teams with later picks emailed "Manuel Wright" in the 5th round?

From what I've read, prior to each round the teams email their guy's name, if any, to choose with the upcoming pick. The earliest slot gets him.

If so, what other team(s) do you think put in his name? If any.

I think there's no way the Colts and Bengals didn't try in the 5th, or at least plan on jumping with the 6th. But I certainly wouldn't be surprised to hear that more teams picked him when they saw he slipped through the 4th.

It'd be a neat stat to find out.
 
I frankly think everybody was looking for a bargain and it's likely the Dolphins were the most desperate team for him. My best guess is that the others were probably going to go one more round before putting claims in.
 
I feel strongly that a lot of emails were sent in round 5. Round 4 is the first round of the second day. You have teams work all night going into Round 4, with a player leftover from day one, that they really like. Round 5 starts to taper off. We got a steal, plain and simple. Look at JR Tolver in the 5th, where's he at. Tony Bua?, jury is still out. We got a great potential player. This move was not made out of DESPERATION, if it was, we would have used a 3rd on this guy.
 
I would be willing to bet that a fair number of teams (3 or 4) put in for him in the 5th round. The Dolphins ended up with the 2nd highest selection order, luckily enough, so we got to trump them all.

The weird part is that the Giants ended up with the highest selection order. That really only had about a 1.3% chance of happening.

Just think though, if Matt Leinart had decided to enter the Supplemental Draft, we would have absolutely gotten him for next year's first round pick. The Giants have Eli Manning...
 
Leinart sure would have been nice. We've already had a great offseason though, that right there would have made it unbelievable.
 
Imagine if we got Leinart and Brown in one year. Good lord....just..good lord.

But you know the Giants....they'd likely draft Leinart and then dance him around and end up with fifty picks in return.
 
HysterikiLL said:
Imagine if we got Leinart and Brown in one year. Good lord....just..good lord.

But you know the Giants....they'd likely draft Leinart and then dance him around and end up with fifty picks in return.
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Sounds good but could the Fins sign both draft picks and still have enough $$$ to field a respectable team?

The last team I remember to have the two top picks was the Colts.
 
NorFlaFin said:
Sounds good but could the Fins sign both draft picks and still have enough $$$ to field a respectable team?

The last team I remember to have the two top picks was the Colts.
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No doubt we'd have made it work. Ronnie doesn't seem like a "show me the money" type player and I doubt him leaving the bounds of the team solely for financial gains. Matt, too seems pretty down to earth and a lover of football.

While they'd both attract large deals, I think they'd be respectable and not Eli Manning sized deals ripping our rookie cap to pieces.
 
Jimmy James said:
I frankly think everybody was looking for a bargain and it's likely the Dolphins were the most desperate team for him. My best guess is that the others were probably going to go one more round before putting claims in.
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yeah, this guy is basically a steal for what we got him for, and thats pretty muhc whatthe other teams were looking for, we needed him more then them so we put in earlier
 
who was that 'source' who came on here and gave the inside scoop about miami leaving the workout early, and them not wanting him?
 
gravyfries said:
who was that 'source' who came on here and gave the inside scoop about miami leaving the workout early, and them not wanting him?
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Go back and read his thread. His name is Brett Tessler.
 
ckparrothead said:
I would be willing to bet that a fair number of teams (3 or 4) put in for him in the 5th round. The Dolphins ended up with the 2nd highest selection order, luckily enough, so we got to trump them all.

The weird part is that the Giants ended up with the highest selection order. That really only had about a 1.3% chance of happening.

Just think though, if Matt Leinart had decided to enter the Supplemental Draft, we would have absolutely gotten him for next year's first round pick. The Giants have Eli Manning...
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Thatw ould have been great if Matt decided to delacre for the supplemental draft, then we would go 11-5, heel it would have happened but oh well( we should a get a QB next year)

Im sure other teams put in thier bids for Wright.
 
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