That was the weakest draft at the top I can remember in a long time. If Jordan were to enter the draft this year he would not be a top 10 pick. He would be in the 12-25 range.
I don't agree with that kind of thinking. First off, we don't really
know yet how good the top of that first round was. All we have is what people said. The 2005 draft was notoriously weak at the top but that first round also produced one of the best players in the NFL in Aaron Rodgers.
The bottom line is, your chances of winning a transaction when you trade the #3 overall pick for next year's #22 overall pick are poor at best. Your goal as an organization should be to get other teams to fall for that kind of thinking, trading away their high pick for a lower one soon after, not the other way around.
I think you have to at least take the call. If you could get a pro bowl offensive lineman like Mathis or Peters AND #22 pick or even Lane Johnson and the #22 pick I think you should do it. Wake will be able to have a long career because he didn't play that much in his early 20s. Wake has another 4 years of pro bowl caliber play. Maybe more.
A few things. The Eagles aren't going to trade Lane Johnson and their first for Dion Jordan. That's crazy talk for the exact reason I'm mentioning above. They're not giving away the #4 overall pick and another first for the #3 overall pick in the draft where they picked #4. Why the hell would they do that? Evan Mathis on the other hand, while a terrific player, is a 32 year old guard. How many more great years does he really have left... and even if he has great years left, they're guard years, and guards ain't exactly the most valuable player on your football team.
As an organization we should be able to acquire a good guard without trading away a player who plays a difference making position like pass rusher. Alex Mack and Zane Beadles are both scheduled to be unrestricted free agents this year. They're both young, excellent players and don't involve me giving away Jordan.
Also, I think this thing with Wake having four more years is something I strongly disagree with. Age is age. He only took one year off from football... otherwise he's the exact same age as other players, you know, his age. It's not like they play patty cake football in Canada. They play two preseason games and then 19 regular season games (followed by two weeks of playoffs if you qualify).
What's going to help him is his clean living and freakish work ethic, but age catches up to everyone. We saw the beginning of it this year when he got dinged and wasn't able to come back very fast. That's going to start happening more, not less.
