This is insanity, and further cements that Sweeney is just simply incompetent. How do you trade back a year and get zero for it? How do you give a team a real-time improvement and not demand SOMETHING for the benefit? More troubling, what if SWEENEY instigated the trade, and asked Minnesota to take the pick in return for theirs next year, when the team clearly could benefit from picking someone now?Steve Dillard said:
Wait... we traded a 2015 5th round pick for a 2016 5th round pick, that might be a worse pick, AND we have to wait another year for it?
Don Sweeney definitely doesn't get value in this trade. IN 95% of other draft pick trades if you trade a pick this year you're supposed to get 1 round higher next year or two picks.
I am utterly stupefied by this. Sweeney has no common sense or business acumen, and this means that Jacobs and Neely don't either, or that they simply don't care.
This trade of picks is almost more shocking than any of the personnel picks, if it's simply a swap of years. One can question talent evaluation, it's subjective and who knows what the real results will be. But this move is even more base, it reveals foolishness and total ignorance.