If they traded back they could have had 3 players - Maybe Blalock, Harris AND McCauley. Revis and Harris better be lights out.
Could have, should have, would have!?!?!?!? I don't understand some of the posters here... we got two good players, worth everything we gave up to get to them, which, if you look at draft position value was not much. The way the draft went on this first day, we would have had only so-so players at our original draft positions. There were too many teams picking ahead of us with the same needs as us to get quality players. But, I guess that would have been fine with some because we would have at least lots of them. Lets just trust that the FO knows better then us what is going on and what direction they are taking the team. Enjoy that we got two top rated players...
We *think* we got two good players. And maybe we're right. But players have a way of not turning out exactly as you projected them, and getting hurt, and just sometimes not being what you thought you had when you took them. That's why there's safety in numbers in the draft. That's why trading up is a bad thing. And if you look at all the trade-ups in the first round recently I think you'll find that the team trading up has been the unhappy one down the road. I don't like what the Jets did today because even if I give them full credit for talent evaluation, which I mostly do, that ain't gonna help us out if Harris has another major injury (he has had a few of them) or if Revis turns out to be just okay, not great. I don't like the fact that we have no chance to have a Kerry Rhodes or Leon Washington bail us out if (when) something happens to one of the other guys. The thing I hate the most about Terry Bradway is that he thinks he's smarter than everybody else and he can trade a bunch of stuff for a Santana Moss or a D-Rob and still come out ahead of the game. Well, he's basically broken even at best doing that kind of stuff over the years and it disturbs me to see the new regime fall into that trap.
