LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 12th Annual Collaborative Mock Draft

I don't know why I thought this was starting at noon. Is that posted somewhere or are these Jersey edibles laced?

 

The San Francisco 49ers select:

Quarterback - Justin Fields - The Ohio State

 

We have recently had some suspicious looking characters wandering around the dressing room. Security took care of it, but we aren't sure how long they'd been there beforehand

 

TRADE APPROVED

Falcons receive
1(28)
3(41)
2022 1st
2023 2nd

Saints receive
1(4)

 

If Fields was still available at #4, I might have hesitated and reconsidered trading down. So I'm happy to see him off the board at #3.

 

Should be a perfect fit for Shanahan's offense.

 

Indeed. Shanahan should be able to choke away several more Superbowls now.

 

I find the Wilson vs Fields debate to be pretty interesting. If I repped all 32 teams in separate mocks I’d probably split that decision roughly down the middle.

 

Saints must be looking for a very good picture, because I think we all know who this pick is going to be. I'd love if it was a surprise, but I'm not betting on it.

 

Yeah, good pictures of Turner Bernard might not be easy to find...

 

I had to look it up, but I figured. lol!

Here ya go;

 

I'm reading now that Denver might be the trade partner with Atlanta in the real draft. Hoping it happens.

I actually wanted Atlanta to trade down from the #3 spot in 2008 (Dimitroff's first year) and get ahead of the cap curve once and for all (we were in cap hell due to Michael Vick at the time). Ironically we're in a similar situation in the first season for Dimitroff's successor.

 

Funny how that tends to happen to new GM's. I know it's easy to say, probably harder to do. But I feel like I could do a better job of never letting my cap become a massive issue. Possible wrench in an unpredictable Covid year. Still don't think I'd flirt with a bottom 5 situation

 

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I'm sure Joe is picking soon. I just texted him. He's handling the Saints in case anyone needed clarification on that.

 

Just as a note (not a complaint) - There needed to be at least one additional first in this trade but, for reality's sake, to make this big of a move up would have cost the Saints every first round pick for the next 3 seasons, minimum.

I don't think there has ever been a trade that moved a team down that far.

 

Julio Jones trade was close.

 

SI reported in 2008 that the Ravens were actually trying to trade up with the Rams at #2 in 2008 to take Matt Ryan, but the Rams didn't want to drop and miss their target player. So Billy Devaney (who was previously assistant GM in Atlanta and had just joined the Rams personnel department) called Atlanta and tried to get the Falcons to trade up from #3 to #2 to block anyone else from trading with St. Louis. The Falcons declined.

I don't know how much truth there is to the Ravens part of the story, but what I would have done as Atlanta GM at the time would have been to call the Ravens and take the deal they were offering to the Rams. The Falcons would have ended up with Joe Flacco and the Ravens would have had Matt Ryan, but the big bonus for Atlanta would have been all the other picks they would have had to rebuild the roster.

 

Falcons-Browns from 10 years ago was close, and it also only involved one future first rounder. Five picks instead of four, but two of them were fourth rounders.

 

I haven't heard back from Joe. Almost worried at this point. Quite unusual.

 

The only other one that I could think of that was remotely close was a move up from 17 to 1.

I think Atlanta basically gave up their entire first half of the draft along with a first and a middle pick the following year to move up for a non-passer, which influences the price to a degree.