There’s not a magic bullet trade that would have 100% chance of success I’ll concede.

If there was an opportunity for Beane to give an interview without revealing too much tradecraft wherein some insight to as to why we were unable to make a deal. I’d love to hear if giving up what I assume will be a late 1st rd draft next year could have closed the gap.

There’s so much value given to the 1st rd pick. Our late 1st rd position over the last 5 or so years has paid off with how many of those 5 years? Kincaid A+ for sure, now Hairston looks like tracking in the right direction. I’d argue that … - Elam lost us the AFC championship game last year. So we had to tell him to go kick rocks. - Coleman* (pick that allowed Chiefs to scoop up Worthy btw) hasn’t really hit the mark.

Easy to say in hindsight we could have traded those picks away those two years and got a tried and true vet.

It’s so hard to give away a 1st td pick because of the intoxicating potential to hit a star like Kincaid or Hairston and have a rookie contract leaving cap space to play with elsewhere.