 | Cannon gave up 3.12 + 4.01 +
5.12 + 10.01
| Hollar gave up 2.05 (WR Moss)
+ 6.05 + 8.05 + 9.08 |
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Cannon Analysis: The
offer from Tim came pre-draft and somewhat surprised me. Here
was a friend offering me just what I always want - a
third top-20 pick at a reasonable price. Yes sir. Yes sir. Three
bags full.
Basically, I now can shoot for QB Culpepper or another true FF
star in exchange for several solid players. Our trade was agreed
based on a basic difference in roster philosophy. Which is fine
with both of us.
See who Hollar gets at 3.12 and 4.01 before deciding who made
out best here.
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Hollar Analysis: During
my pre-draft preparations I came to the conclusion that one of
the big edges to be gained versus the rest of the league was TE
Tony Gonzales. He's one of the few TEs who can put
up WR points - yes RB points - at the tight end position.
To wit, in this scoring format Gonzo's' 2004 point total would
have ranked him as the 8th best running back and 9th best
wideout.
Thus, I made several attempts to trade down from the 2.05 spot
in hopes of moving up to an early 3rd round area to try to
select him. When that failed, I decided to make the big
move back with TC and then attempt to trade back up.
Evacuating the 2.05 spot early cost me a chance at Randy Moss,
but hopefully that cluster of late 3rd / early 4th picks will
reap some rewards to ultimately make it a worthwhile trade.
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| Hickerson gave up 3.06
(Gonzales) + 4.07
| Hollar gave up 3.08 + 4.01 |
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Hickerson Analysis:
I felt the guy I
wanted would drop a couple spots and I didn’t have my heart
set on him regardless. So when approached by Tim, I looked for a
reasonable way to drop down a couple spots and move up a few on
the back end. If I get my top guy after trading, the 6 spots
upward in the 4th round could benefit me. It seemed
to be a reasonable strategy to take.
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Hollar Analysis:
As part of my goal to acquire
Tony Gonzales, I made several offers in an
attempt to move up to the early portions of the 3rd round.
As those too failed, Gonzales continued to slide into the middle
of the 3rd.
Feeling fairly certain that he would be taken by the Del Pilar |
Bonini at 3.07, I approached Hickerson at 3.06 and hoped for the
best. After some negotiation, I decided to sacrifice
some of the acquired draft slots in the Cannon trade to nail
down what I feel is a true difference maker.
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| O'Leary gave up 3.09
(CWilliams) + 6.04 + 7.09 + 11.09
| Hollar gave up 3.12 + 5.12
+7.08 +11.08 |
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O'Leary
Analysis:
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Hollar Analysis:
After making the trade with
Jerome Hickerson to move up and grab Tony
Gonzales, I spent a little time with the family and thought I
would check in on the draft before turning in.
Shannon O'Leary was on the clock and had been for a while.
So the Shamrock was either out of the loop or in some serious
thought over who to pick. Then for a reason I still
can't fully explain, I decided to throw an offer his way in
hopes of getting my choice of RBs
on the board as my second back. Little did I know Duane
Cahill would double down again!
At any rate, I threw it out there and decided to take Cadillac
Williams when O'Leary accepted.
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| Del Pilar | Bonini gave up:
5.07 (Brady) + 9.07
| Tinker gave up 6.09
+ 7.04 |
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Del
Pilar | Bonini Analysis:
With our fifth-round pick
on the clock and seeing nothing that really excited us we
elected to trade down and position ourselves to have a nice
clump of picks in the sixth and seventh rounds. In fact, with
this deal we are able to secure four picks in a 14-pick span so
we’d be able to land a lot of good players to shore up our
weak positions (QB and WR).
We think
this pick was good for both teams as he got the player he wanted
and we were given the chance to make four selections in rapid
succession, which was good as we felt we had entered a period of
the draft with a lot of similar players. In which case, having
more selections during that time period will help our cause.
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| Tinker
Analysis: |
| Holm gave up QB Bulger +
7.05
| Cannon gave up 6.01
(Hasselbeck) + 6.05 |
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Holm Analysis: I
like Marc Bulger this year which is why I drafted him. As
I typed in my analysis, I think it essential to have a solid
signal caller on your FAD team. I did toy with Hasselbeck
when selecting Bulger but in the end, Bulger to me was the
superior choice and at 5.05, a very good value. TC offered
me his 6th round selections for Bulger and I decided I wouldn't
be able to make the deal unless Hasselbeck fell to 6.01.
If Hasselbeck didn't fall to 6.01 I wouldn't have made this
trade.
Essentially I traded Bulger and 7.05 for Hasselbeck and 6.04.
I believe I can make up the difference in the value loss between
the two QBs with the 13 pick boost in the draft. I also
have 6.08 which played into my acceptance of this offer as with
6.01, 6.04 and 6.08 I can pretty much predict what my team will
look like coming out of the 6th round and I like what I see. Looking
at what's left, I think I'm going to get the last of the decent
players with the next 3 out of 8 picks before we start digging
for the streaky and sleeper players in the draft. Time to
make a stand!!
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Cannon Analysis:
As before, the trade offer was
made long prior to the pick. It was a sell-out of a pair of 6th
picks to acquire the Ram passer. I had intended to select Bulger
at 5.06 - in a conditional trade agreement with Hickerson. But..
Tony Holm snagged him one slot earlier, forcing a should-I
situation for me -- Yes, I should. And, yes, I did.
Bulger was the 7th QB drafted, and certainly should have been
considered following the top two or three elite passers. He is
certainly preferred over the Vick/Hasselbeck/Plummer trio what
were my other QB1 options, and worth the additional cost. As a
top yardage producer, Bulger is a very good QB with a lot of
opportunity.
This trade also follows my preferred quality-over- quantity
approach toward drafting. The Ram is an extra ace in the
deck.
BTW, I would not be picking at
6.01, even without the Holm trade. Another FanEx member and I
had agreed on a slight move down that would allowed me to claim
two alternate passers within the 6th round. Without Bulger, I
feel I need two guys to compete.
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| Houston | Pitzer gave up
6.11 (Heap) + 8.11 + 18.11
| Cannon gave up 7.05 + 8.01
+ 18.01 |
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Pitzer
Analysis: We dealt out of
the 6.11 pick essentially because there was nobody we felt we
really had to have. Neither of the next two picks we wanted,
Alge Crumpler and Jake Delhomme, were good values here so we
slid down and set ourselves up with three of the next 12 picks.
We still wound up getting the two guys we wanted with the next
two picks, while moving up almost an entire round in the eighth.
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Cannon Analysis: I
had no intention in claiming Heap via trade until Ryan contacted
me. I intended to wait 6 more picks and get RB3 Duckett or
a Coles-type WR.
Then it hit me. WHY DO THAT? Why "settle" for a common
roster player, when I could grab a premier starter? This entire
draft has been a exercise on seeking quality - which is tough to
do from the 1.12 draft slot. This trade is a plus, allowing me
to get a desired player.
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| Butler gave up 7.03
(Palmer) + 13.03 + 15.03
| Hollar gave up 7.09 + 12.05
+ 13.08 |
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Butler
Analysis: Trade
Analysis: With Laveranus Coles on my radar as my next pick and a
huge number of teams attempting to fill their QB spots in this
round, I felt secure that I could move down in a couple of
rounds to secure an extra 12th round pick. Given many teams QB
situation, reflecting on my surprise McNabb pick makes me think
it's going to pay off well to my advantage.
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Hollar
Analysis: As a consequence
of taking WR Roy Williams over QB Michael Vick with my 6.04
pick, acquiring a starting caliber FF QB became a high priority.
Especially in the wake of the Del Pilar / Bonini combo and
Jerome Hickerson taking Jake Plummer and Aaron Brooks
respectively.
With two other owners also in need of their first quarterback --
and the unusual 2005 FanEx trend of teams doubling down at the
position early -- I logged on this afternoon (Tuesday, May 24rd)
and decided to aggressively try to move up and get the top rater
passer on my board rather than settle for the 2nd or 3rd best..
Fortunately, Jim Butler was in a position to accommodate me by
moving down a few slots and I thank him.
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| Tinker gave up 9.07
(Griese) + 11.04
| Hollar gave up 10.01 +
10.05 |
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| Tinker
Analysis:
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Hollar
Analysis: The last two
trades I've made have come out necessity rather than invention -
and it's been a wee bit painful. But not as piercing
as it
would be were I forced to settle for a quarterback I had ranked
clearly below Griese.
This trade allows me to leapfrog the two other owners with just
one quarterback as well as the owner who has yet to draft his
first. So while I would have much preferred to make
this deal without including my 10.05, the quarterback madness
forced my hand to trade up and get the player I coveted while
also protecting myself at the position.
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| Cahill gave up 11.11 +
13.11
| Butler gave up 11.03
(EManning) + 16.10 |
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Cahill Analysis:
As I rule, I would much rather
trade down than trade up. But, given the set of
circumstances I was facing in round 11, I thought I had no
choice but to put together a deal to move.
Despite the fact that there hasn't
been another quarterback taken since my selection at 10.02, I
had reasons to suspect that some might fall in round 11.
O'Leary still has only one QB on his roster, and while that
one is Peyton Manning, he's still going to need to pick up
another somewhere. Maybe he thought a Manning/Manning
combo would look good.
Three other teams ahead of me
(Holm, Del Pilar/Bonini, Dolfi/Walls) have two quarterbacks on
their rosters, but carried three in the FAD last year.
It was reasonable to expect that at least one of the three
would maintain the same strategy in this year's draft and
select a third.
As I stated in my pick analysis,
when faced with the prospects of Feeley, Ramsey, Grossman,
Dilfer or Smith/Rattay I thought Manning was a far superior
choice if only because he is sure to be in the lineup for 16
games, barring injury.
The move up was "only"
eight spots, but I jumped four teams who I thought might have
an interest in the player I wanted. The cost was three
rounds, from 13.11 to 16.10.
However, that 13th round pick was
likely going to be a TE, PK or DT. When you're selecting
at those positions late in the draft, your choice comes down
largely to personal preference. I don't think that there
will be someone falling to pick 13.11 that I'll be kicking
myself if I can't draft. I certainly would have kicked
myself repeatedly had I come out of this draft with only two
starting quarterbacks. To me, it was well worth the
cost.
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Butler
Analysis:
I opted to move down again in
this draft in order to move one of my later round picks up. Once
again, the trade that was made resulted in the selection of a QB
by the owner selecting in my spot. As I see more owners filling
their roster with 3 quarterbacks, the more I am glad to have
filled my QB position with 2 of the strongest starters in the
league. Not only does this insure my scoring at the QB position,
but it puts 2 of the top 4 scorers, 2 of the top 3 QBs, in
2004 on my roster. That means that they are not scoring points
for the opposition either.
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| Hollar gave up RB Anthony
Thomas DAL
| O'Leary gave up PK Matt
Stover CLE |
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Hollar
Analysis: After
I made the Carolina pick at 15.08, I watched as Matt Stover was
going to fall into my lap at 16.05... until Shannon O'Leary
snapped him up one pick in front of me. So, I
settled on Jason Hanson as the fallback and started eyeballing
the potential available kickers for my 17.08 pick.
I didn't particularly like what I saw and recalled a note that
I'd received from Shannon O'Leary shortly after my selection of
Anthony Thomas, saying that he had almost taken him.
After the conversation
with my brother, I decided to offer the trade for the upgrade at
kicker and to take Fason as the A-Train's replacement.
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| O'Leary
Analysis:
When I was approached by Hollar
proposing the trade I decided this was one worth looking into. I
was still contemplating taking another running back. I toyed
with taking Betts or even Clarrett. But I looked at the fact
that Parcells wants to use Thomas as part of the one-two punch.
I
decided that I could replace Stover with another kicker and may
improve my running backs more than taking a chance on someone
who might not play until the starter gets hurt. At this point it
appears that Thomas will see the field in some capacity
regardless of injury, so I found him to have more value than the
remaining backs on the board.
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