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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
Trading draft picks for older players (over 30) has happened much much much less frequently than we fans seem to want to think it has. Aside from McNabb, how many times have we done that in recent years? I'm sure there have been a couple other times, but I really can't think of them
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Jason Taylor? For me it's not so much trading our draft picks for players over 30, it's trading our draft picks for players who fail to make a difference. We gave up a 2nd for Taylor, he gave us 1 season and bitched his way out of here at the end of it. I'm just tired of trading for/signing players who we don't have good judgement on (I'm looking at you Fat Al).
I feel like we would have a much higher chance of success with a player that at least one guy on our coaching staff was familiar with, it seems when we trade for players that nobody on our staff has ever worked with before it usually ends up being a failure.
And it's kind of obvious we're not rebuilding, and if we are rebuilding, we're doing a pretty bad job at it. You don't trade away multiple draft picks for a 34 year old quarterback if you're not planning on winning now.