Rubes

So strange...I've been coming to this site almost daily for the last, what, almost 30 years? Yikes. I feel like I should at least recognize most everyone here, but I honestly don't remember Flaz at all, and that makes me feel bad. Sounds like he had a rough go of it there, and it always makes me sad when a Bills fan passes before getting to see them win it all. RIP.

Thanks. Not sure how much Beane would be willing to give up, but I sense he probably wants to get back into the 3rd somehow.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but if the Bills wanted to get back into the 3rd round, while keeping their 1st and 2 2nd rounders, what would it take with their remaining draft picks to move back up into round 3?

We can hope...definitely didn't look up to the task last year...

* checks date * * not April 1 *

I'll just say that I stayed at one of those hotels in the Northtowns and the room I got was infested with bed bugs. Didn't discover it until it was too late. That. Sucked. I'm pretty picky about where I stay now.

There's a non-zero chance the Bills at Browns game is the international game...

Man, I vividly remember watching this game while at college in my apartment. The guys living right below us were Jets fans, and I remember cheering so loudly in this game that it had to seriously piss them off. Good times.

This is true, but it’s another example of a player traded to another team in exchange for draft picks. It wasn’t part of a package for the Cardinals to move up in the draft per se. Again, another example of a player just traded for picks, not as part of a package to move up in the draft.

Good call, but the Bills basically traded for the player. I was thinking of trades that involved a player so a team could move up in the draft. I don’t think that was the case here.

Another good catch. Maybe not quite as rare as it seems?

Not sure. That seems to make sense, yet it has still happened a handful of times. Wonder how that works, especially if the trade goes through and a player then gets picked.

Another good catch. Looks like it was on Day 2 of the draft. Accoding to ESPN, the Bills traded for Bledsoe after they missed out on drafting Patrick Ramsey. Yikes. However, this is an example of a team trading specifically for a player, not packaging a player to move up in the draft that day.

I think you may have one there. I think Chad Ochocinco may also have been traded on draft day, but that was like 13 years ago or something. Maybe a couple others before 2000, but it does seem very rare in the last 25 years.

I keep seeing people interested in maybe packaging a player along with a draft pick to move up in the draft. Someone like Cook, or a player who hasn’t worked out well here (Elam was another example in previous years). When was the last time this was done? I can’t find any recent examples of a player being part of a draft-day trade, though I’m no search expert on this. I can recall one involving Jerome Bettis, but that was decades ago, I believe. Anybody know of any recent examples? Not that it can’t happen, but it seems like it’s become so extremely rare that I wouldn’t even bother to consider the possibility, especially on Day 1.