Trade value with hawks “too good to be able to pass”
SNEAD said that the team had traveled the script for the acquisition of a future first round choice in the event that a quarter is falling into the draft and a team that really likes this quarter-tree abandons this future first. But this scenario involving a future first was the one they did not expect.
Falcons exchanged to choose 26 to take the Rusher from Tennessee Edge James Pearce Jr.
“Usually, it’s a QB,” said Snead. “But you can’t plan for that one.”
The agreement with the Falcons allowed the RAMs to retreat from 20 places, of choice n ° 26 to choose n ° 46. They also included the choice n ° 101 (one of their two third rounds) in the package, but it brought them closer to a choice of day 3 (n ° 242, seventh round) and at the beginning of Atlanta.
Thus, instead of looking at the gap of 64 peaks between the selections they were originally confronted with day 1, they now have 44 choices between their first two planned choices entering day 2.
“It is really, now, at that time, all the work that goes in the creation of a board-that is to say that I always say that it is specific to the board of directors with each team, specific to us, according to needs, adjustments, players we love,” said Snead. “So now, he really looks for his eyes, wait and see and at that time, using the board. That’s why we stacked him.”
Mcvay said that withdraw only 20 places and also get a future first round choice is a “big problem”.
“A real credit to Les,” said Mcvay. “(Vice-president of football and business administration) Tony (pastors) had a lot of super dialogues with teams everywhere, and we have finished exactly where we wanted to be. To be able to get a future, it is a big problem, to simply come back 20 points. So, obviously, the next few days will be exciting, but (we) we really feel good about how this evening is going.”
Small gap between the value at the end of the first round and in the middle of the second round
Asked about the perceived “flat” value of the draft about 20 to choose 50 to choose 50, Mcvay said: “I think the greatest thing is that there is a lot of appreciation for, let’s just say, your 100 best players, and there may not be as much divergence between the guys who are in this top 15 for these guys who may be 85 to 100 years.”
“The and his group, our coaches working in collaboration, there are a lot of appreciation for many players who will be withdrawn from the table tomorrow and in the first games on Saturday,” said Mcvay. “And so I think looking at where our team is in the whole, the value we were able to get in order to go back 20 places, seemed too good to be able to pass. And we are going to leave with good football players tomorrow, that’s for sure.”
Rams explored the exchange
SNEAD confirmed that Los Angeles had sought to exchange the draft, but the requested price of the other teams was too high.
“The answer was yes, but it was really for a particular player,” said Snead.
“The value that went there, the teams asked (for) too much or more than we would do it.”
