Compensatory Picks

[Lurker64]

Schefter reports that we got a 4th round pick for losing Kampman last year. Only third round compensatory pick went to Carolina, for losing Julius Peppers. Tennessee also got a 4th round compensatory.

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not bad, not bad at all

[swede]

I know we can't trade the compensatory pick, but we could trade #32 and #129(?) which might bump us up to #30. I'd take Pouncey with that pick!

[RashanGary]

not bad, not bad at all

I'm satisfied. We've gotten the likes of Wells, Sitton, Jolly, Poppinga, Bishop, Crosby, Flynn, Lang, B Jones, Starks, Wilson, Shields, Tramon and Quarless in or after the 4th round.

At that spot in the draft, Ted seems to hit about 1/3 of the time, so we picked up a 33% lotto ticket for a good quality Packer.

[Scott Campbell]

A 4th seems about right.

[Lurker64]

Baltimore got two fifth round compensatories, and everything else awarded is a 6th or a 7th round pick. No word on whether our 4th comp is higher than Tennessee's.

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I know we can't trade the compensatory pick, but we could trade #32 and #129(?) which might bump us up to #30. I'd take Pouncey with that pick!

i think its a complete waste of time to try and figure out who will be available where and what TT might do if a certain players is around at a certain spot.

i think i gave up trying that before last years draft

[swede]

i think its a complete waste of time to try and figure out who will be available where and what TT might do if a certain players is around at a certain spot.

i think i gave up trying that before last years draft

Dude if I was concerned about wasting time I'd be outside on a ladder cleaning the gutters

[Lurker64]

i think its a complete waste of time to try and figure out who will be available where and what TT might do if a certain players is around at a certain spot.

i think i gave up trying that before last years draft

Yeah, armchair GM is really not a productive use of one's time (though it is useful) since the things that draftniks and enthusiasts don't have are really the most important parts of the evaluation process: coaches tape, a full physical, interviews with the prospect, and candid opinions from that player's former coaches. When non-scouts watch football games, they pretty much always watch what's happening around the ball and the camera for TV broadcasts goes along this way; nobody can evaluate a prospect on film when he's not actually on film. If it turns out that a guy has no ACLs and a heart murmur it probably doesn't matter how unbelievable his college tape is, NFL teams are going to pass on him. And if a guy reveals he's a turd in interviews (like when you catch him lying about his police record), or his coaches tell you he's a turd when you ask him about it... that's going to make him fall too.

Doesn't mean it's not entertaining, but never fall in love with a guy based on what you've seen since everybody who actually makes decisions in this process has seen a whole lot more than any of us have.

[Lurker64]

Our comp pick is #131. Tennessee gets #130. Our third round pick is #129.

[Scott Campbell]

Dude if I was concerned about wasting time I'd be outside on a ladder cleaning the gutters

Max McGee - may he rest in peace.

[Fritz]

Our comp pick is #131. Tennessee gets #130. Our third round pick is #129.

Lurk, if our third round pick is #129, and we got a fourth for Kampman, how can that comp pick be #131? Compensatory picks come at the ends of the rounds they're awarded in.

[Lurker64]

Lurk, if our third round pick is #129, and we got a fourth for Kampman, how can that comp pick be #131? Compensatory picks come at the ends of the rounds they're awarded in.

Meant to say fourth. The obvious indication that this was an error would be that if we got a third round pick that was #129, one would wonder what happened between the 95 previous picks of the first three rounds and the final non-compensatory pick of the third round.

[Bretsky]

good news; also gives TT more flexibility to use another pick to trade up if he chooses to

[woodbuck27]

Our comp pick is #131. Tennessee gets #130. Our third round pick is #129.

#129 and #131 is great.