He's a terrific WR; a gamer who plays his heart out without any drama. I'd love to have him now in his prime. To me a known commodity such as Boldin is worth our first, considering how many highly touted college WRs surprisingly turn out to be developmental projects or flat-out failures. The problem is, I doubt the Cardinals would accept a non-top 10 pick (we're slotted at 26).
Given that there are some alternative FA and draft options, that our own WR corp is coming along and that we have even more pressing, immediate needs, I would NOT offer more than that 1st pick and maybe a 6th (although remember, Thomas was a better 6th than Murphy a 4th, so I don't even know about that). Either way, I'm sure that a package like that would fall far short compared to other offers.
FWIW, my friend's a die hard Cardinals season ticket holder who's always demonstrated a reliable foresight on what the team's up to. At the season's start, he was dead-set against doing anything with Boldin except for stonewalling his trade or renegotiation requests. However, at this point, he actually thinks that Steve Breaston is turning into another Boldin and feels the team would not rule out trading Boldin if they could strike a Roy Williiams type deal.
