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Raiders' first pick in demand
As the Raiders reportedly look to trade for another veteran Pro Bowler, they are getting every opportunity to get back the premium pick they traded away in a similar deal last year.
An unnamed team has offered the Raiders a second-round pick this year and a first-round pick next year in exchange for the Raiders' No. 8 overall pick. (Well, the team has a name, but our league source wouldn't share).
That deal would allow the Raiders to get back in the 2011 first round after giving their pick to the Patriots in the Richard Seymour deal. (Lockout or not, there will be a draft next year, reportedly).
At least one other team has offered to swap spots with the Raiders. Perhaps this is evidence that the 2010 class is as good as advertised. People actually want back in the top-10 again.
So why haven't the Raiders bit?
The Raiders simply do not have a history of trading down from its first-round perch. They'll trade the spot away for a star player (Seymour, Randy Moss) but Raiders owner Al Davis doesn't have a track record of moving down the order for another pick.
So what does this have to do with Donovan McNabb?
According to reports, the Eagles would want a top-42 pick for McNabb. The Raiders currently pick 39th in the second round. Let's assume that's what it would take.
If the Raiders were to accept the aforementioned draft trade, here's what it could mean: they could give Philly their No. 39 pick, then use the other team's second-round pick in April. And, instead of picking No. 8 overall in this draft, they'd have a first-round pick in next year's draft. Nothing lost, just deferred.
Whatever the case with McNabb, if the Raiders want to trade their way back into the 2011 first round, they have been given at least one opportunity to do so.
** All this reminded me of the last time Davis spoke, after the Seymour trade. A reporter started to ask his thoughts of a rookie scale in 2011 even though he wouldn't have a pick in the class, when Davis got a bit agitated.
"Don't say we won't pick in 2011. You're wrong, you're wrong, didn't the 49ers take the first with Staley and the next year didn't they do it again this year? So don't make statements."
** He said something else that could apply to these "alleged" talks with the Eagles. By giving up a first-round pick for a player in the last year of his contract, Davis suggested he was willing to do whatever it takes to get the player he wants.
"Sometimes you've got to overpay to get what you want," Davis said in September. "But I didn't overpay. I don't think that's overpaying at all. Sometimes you have to, you don't always win the battle, the idea is to get the player."
So, if McNabb is the player he wants to get, he will get him soon enough.
** One more thing: wonder why the Raiders haven't leaked a word on this McNabb story?
"It's usually a conversation with me on any trade," Davis said in September. 'Nuf said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/raiders/detail?blogid=11&entry_id=60198
As the Raiders reportedly look to trade for another veteran Pro Bowler, they are getting every opportunity to get back the premium pick they traded away in a similar deal last year.
An unnamed team has offered the Raiders a second-round pick this year and a first-round pick next year in exchange for the Raiders' No. 8 overall pick. (Well, the team has a name, but our league source wouldn't share).
That deal would allow the Raiders to get back in the 2011 first round after giving their pick to the Patriots in the Richard Seymour deal. (Lockout or not, there will be a draft next year, reportedly).
At least one other team has offered to swap spots with the Raiders. Perhaps this is evidence that the 2010 class is as good as advertised. People actually want back in the top-10 again.
So why haven't the Raiders bit?
The Raiders simply do not have a history of trading down from its first-round perch. They'll trade the spot away for a star player (Seymour, Randy Moss) but Raiders owner Al Davis doesn't have a track record of moving down the order for another pick.
So what does this have to do with Donovan McNabb?
According to reports, the Eagles would want a top-42 pick for McNabb. The Raiders currently pick 39th in the second round. Let's assume that's what it would take.
If the Raiders were to accept the aforementioned draft trade, here's what it could mean: they could give Philly their No. 39 pick, then use the other team's second-round pick in April. And, instead of picking No. 8 overall in this draft, they'd have a first-round pick in next year's draft. Nothing lost, just deferred.
Whatever the case with McNabb, if the Raiders want to trade their way back into the 2011 first round, they have been given at least one opportunity to do so.
** All this reminded me of the last time Davis spoke, after the Seymour trade. A reporter started to ask his thoughts of a rookie scale in 2011 even though he wouldn't have a pick in the class, when Davis got a bit agitated.
"Don't say we won't pick in 2011. You're wrong, you're wrong, didn't the 49ers take the first with Staley and the next year didn't they do it again this year? So don't make statements."
** He said something else that could apply to these "alleged" talks with the Eagles. By giving up a first-round pick for a player in the last year of his contract, Davis suggested he was willing to do whatever it takes to get the player he wants.
"Sometimes you've got to overpay to get what you want," Davis said in September. "But I didn't overpay. I don't think that's overpaying at all. Sometimes you have to, you don't always win the battle, the idea is to get the player."
So, if McNabb is the player he wants to get, he will get him soon enough.
** One more thing: wonder why the Raiders haven't leaked a word on this McNabb story?
"It's usually a conversation with me on any trade," Davis said in September. 'Nuf said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/raiders/detail?blogid=11&entry_id=60198
