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Originally Posted by dirno2000
If we wait for the free agent chips to start falling it'll be too late to take advantage of a team desperate to dump a pick. No way I'd pass up a chance to add a good young player just to avoid helping Miami or Chicago. Just like with Dallas if a player wants to go there he's going and they'll find a way to make it work.
You aren't stopping anything just making it a bit more difficult. Actually if another team buys the pick you aren't even doing that.
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I'm not saying Dallas should fail to make a trade into the first round if they're getting good enough value in the trade (quite the opposite since I went to the trouble of listing reasons why a trade up into the first round could be beneficial) . I'm just saying that they've got incentive to be choosy when it comes to teams like Miami and Chicago, and that teams like Miami and Chicago have incentive to not help Dallas build a stronger foundation for luring and securing FAs via S&T when there are other options for creating cap room. Further taking into consideration BG's point that there are likely to be other available picks (not to mention other teams looking to trade up), the perspective that the odds in favor of a Dallas/Chicago or Dallas/Miami draft-day swap are somewhat lessened seems pretty unspectacular to me.
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