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If Adrian Peterson falls to #9????

Roman529 said:
Do you think we should take him? If he is the BPA, it would be kind of hard to pass on him. Imagine Peterson and RB both lined up in the backfield....fake a handoff to one and go to the other...that would be hard to defend. Then when they try to stack the line of scrimmage against us, we throw it deep. DISCUSS!!!!!

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I am all about picking BPA over need. Patriots do it every year and that's why they have so many playmakers. Why pick a 2nd round talent in the 1st cause that's the best need player? It also increaes your chances that somebody will want to trade up to get their guy when they know you will not pick for need.
 
it would be pretty stupid to draft another running back with the 9th pick even if peterson is available, there is nothing wrong with our running game when we can be spending the 9th pick in a more useful way...with possibly getting ricky back what would be the point of having all RB,RW, and AP...yea i mean itd be crazy too look at that but its really not worth it. i would b all for possibly seclecting AP and then making a trade however i doubt he falls to number 9 anyway
 
retarmyfinfan said:
I am all about picking BPA over need. Patriots do it every year and that's why they have so many playmakers. Why pick a 2nd round talent in the 1st cause that's the best need player? It also increaes your chances that somebody will want to trade up to get their guy when they know you will not pick for need.
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Actually, the Patriots usually go after need, not BPA. They also trade A LOT of picks, precisely because they do not go after BPA, but need.

A team that is notorious for picking " BPA " is the Detroit Lions, and the New York Jets from 1985 til 2005

Also, what will stop us from trading away our pick @ 9 to a team like Green Bay
Dolfan11 said:
If he falls to 9, he will be the BPA. I think, if he does fall that far, the most ideal situation would be to trade that pick to another team that needs a RB. The RB situation for teams picking 10-15 are fine, with the exception of Green Bay at 16. Maybe trade with them?
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Green Bay would know that teams 10-15 would not need RBs, just like the team at 9 ( Us, obviously ). Green Bay would be mighty foolish to trade up so many spots considering it would cost them a 2nd round pick to do so.

Its like when Saban tried convincing people he was going to grab Braylon Edwards instead of Ronnie Brown, trying to get the Browns to trade with Miami. They called his bluff, it worked, and they got their man at their spot.
 
I seriously DOUBT it .... having multiple very good RBs might help on the field, but you can't have too much of your CAP tied up in them ... especially 2 young top 5 picks ... it would be different if all we had was Ricky and we wanted to get younger -- but Ronnie is too young; maybe in 4-5 years

He might never be in the HOF, but he should be a pretty serviceable RB for many years .....

Also, neither would bring much back in trade value .... so all in all not a smart move ...
 
305finforlife said:
All those for trading down say I......IIIIIII, the I's have it. AP is a great college player, but as a fellw fan said, 2 in three years...no...Rb is not KJCarter or Enis come on now, he is just getting started. I will trade down but no futher than 15 after that the deal has to be real sweet (like a 1st, 2nd, and a 5th somthing like that). I look at it as where would we have finished at the end of the season if we won those last 2 games.
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You guys all talk about trading down....but how often do you see anyone trading down anymore???? NOT VERY OFTEN.
 
C-HUCKS said:
No way he falls to the ninth pick!
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Like has been said, he's been injured every year. That scares away A LOT of teams.

Noone thought Channing Crowder would last past the middle of the 2nd round, and somehow we grabbed him in the 3rd round because Saban took a chance on a kid who was injured for most of the year

With that said, no freakin way this kid gets past #16..
 
Roman529 said:
You guys all talk about trading down....but how often do you see anyone trading down anymore???? NOT VERY OFTEN.
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Forget trading down, trade up...

Yes I'm serious, get that 2nd rounder who has a decent shot of being a good player and instead go for the 4th overall pick. At that spot HELLO Joe Thomas or even Calvin Johnson.
 
Jaj said:
Forget trading down, trade up...

Yes I'm serious, get that 2nd rounder who has a decent shot of being a good player and instead go for the 4th overall pick. At that spot HELLO Joe Thomas or even Calvin Johnson.
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If Miami were to trade the 9th overall and the 39th overall, they could move up to the 4th overall position, which would still be high enough to select Joe Thomas...if Tampa Bay wins the toss! ( but honestly who knows )

Oakland - Jamarcus Russel
Detroit - Brady Quinn
Tampa Bay - Calvin Johnson

However, if Cleveland wins the toss, there is a STRONG possibility they'd select Joe Thomas or Quinn ( if he's there ) so that'd leave Calvin Johnson on the board. Does Miami need a WR THAT badly to give up the possibility of a playmaker at WR in Robert Meachem in the 2nd round, and a badly needed CB in Darelle Reevus with the 9th overall?

I guess whoever takes over in Miami is going to have to figure out what he genuinely feels is Miami's strongest need and go from there.
 
Any trading talk is just 100% speculation and fantasy until its actually annouced. Almost impossible to gauge and predict accurately, and most often nothing happens.
That said if Peterson is there at the #9 I seriously doubt we take him. Why would we? We have so many other HUGE needs that we cant afford to take another RB. You draft pure BPA, you draft BPA for need. Its all a crapshoot anyway, so there really is no surefire BPA, and a team will rarely let on how they rank their players, and as the Bills showed last year, there is NO way for us to judge it with accuracy.

Peterson would be a mistake.
 
You know there was a draft 1 year when we were poised to be in position to draft a running back by the name of Deuce McCalister and I got so mad when the Saints took him when they allready had Ricky Williams who was way better and you know what happened? They worked out a trade with (guess who ) for a 1st rounder and a 3rd rounder! So for all you guys who think we shouldn't take this running back if he is there at 9 are crazy because we may be able to get a offer to trade down but, if we don't at some point some team is gonna want this kid in the future and we will get compensation for him.
 
You get the guy you truly want to get that's my draft philosophy (within reason offcourse, not Ricky Williams style).

As for the Tampa Bay-Cleveland thing, I think it's the other way around. Tampa Bay would want Joe Thomas and Cleveland could quite possibly could take Calvin Johnson.
 
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