REPORTED:failed attempt for a 5th

On Dulac's Q&A Chat on the gazette site, he says that the steelers' failed to trade into the 5th...

I wonder why it hasn't been reported by others...

 

Probably because it's not really newsworthy. I'm sure there are failed trade attempts all the time during the draft. Most of them don't get out to the public.

 

Not exactly big news.

They also didn’t trade into the first. Or trade anything.

 

Unless you want to combine that with them giving their fifth-round choice away in a stupid trade for Vannett, there isn't much to the story.

 

Fair enough, I know there are failed trades all the time, but sort of interesting what could of been...

Imagine if we would of traded for Fromm QB, or Robinson.

 

Fromm is who I would have wanted in the fifth round. That is why the Vannett trade has me annoyed all over again.

 

Please remember that was not the Steelers 5th round pick; it was the pick they received in the Dobbs trade.

In other words the Steelers basically traded Dobbs for Vannett.

That is the way I looked at the trade for Vanett; and I was happy with the trade when I looked at it that way. Both Dobbs and Vannett were looking at free agency at the end of the year.

 

No, they did not trade Dobbs for Vannett. The Dobbs trade happened first. They had the pick in their possession. That pick was more valuable than Vannett, yet they gave it up in an idiotic trade.

 

He's saying it's basically a wash.

We traded a QB we spent 3 years developing the year we needed him the most for 13 catches and 128 yards

 

I think the whole Vannett fiasco was to help Rudolph get his feet wet. Scibe is right though, didn't need to use a draft pick to do it.

 

Oh it was. Just like how they traded Dobbs away so he had no pressure. That's why I add the wasted Vannet draft pick to Rudolph. So we've wasted a 3rd, 5th, and season with an elite defense. Oh yeah and he might be a racist.

Who would have thought having an extra 3rd because of Bryant trade would have done us in? Horrible drafting and asset management.

 

Lighten up Francis, your foaming at the mouth. Dobbs might be in the space program next year & we got a draft pick for him.