Red Dragon
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Had a random off-season type of question that's been rolling around in my head a while, and since the Cowboys are going nowhere this season, we might as well talk like it's offseason already:
Many of you probably know the Marshmallow Experiment - a famous psychological test done decades ago. The test was: A psychologist gives kids a marshmallow but tells them not to eat it - saying, "If you can wait 15 minutes without eating it, I'll give you extra ones - but if you eat it now, one is all you get." The test is one of delayed gratification.
OK, so what does this have to do with football?
What I was musing was:
Suppose you are Cowboys GM, and it's draft day - and an NFL team offers you a never-heard-before deal: You can give them your 1st-round pick, and they'll give you SEVERAL 1st-round picks.......with a catch. Those first-round picks won't arrive until a decade later.
(So, for instance, you trade away your 2021 first-round pick in return for their first-round picks in 2030, 2031, 2032 and 2034.)
Deal or no deal? How many draft picks would they have to offer you, and how far into the future, would it have to be to be acceptable?
Many of you probably know the Marshmallow Experiment - a famous psychological test done decades ago. The test was: A psychologist gives kids a marshmallow but tells them not to eat it - saying, "If you can wait 15 minutes without eating it, I'll give you extra ones - but if you eat it now, one is all you get." The test is one of delayed gratification.
OK, so what does this have to do with football?
What I was musing was:
Suppose you are Cowboys GM, and it's draft day - and an NFL team offers you a never-heard-before deal: You can give them your 1st-round pick, and they'll give you SEVERAL 1st-round picks.......with a catch. Those first-round picks won't arrive until a decade later.
(So, for instance, you trade away your 2021 first-round pick in return for their first-round picks in 2030, 2031, 2032 and 2034.)
Deal or no deal? How many draft picks would they have to offer you, and how far into the future, would it have to be to be acceptable?