The Ravens put out their behind the scenes draft video and there’s a few fun nuggets in there.
-Lions offered 17, 128, and next year’s 3 for 14 at some point before the Dolphins picked Proctor. Then they canceled it after the Rams took Simpson and the Ravens were on the clock. This could mean 2 things.
We wanted Proctor and after Miami took him, we opted out.
Brad truly thought that the Rams would be taking a tackle and when they didnt, he was confident that Miller (or someone else they liked a lot (Freeling?) would be there at 17 and they didn’t need to trade up.
I think the truth is option 2 based on what Brad said in his Day 1 press conference video. (Look it up at the 12:07 mark)
-Lions made the same offer to the Ravens we made to the Jets, but the Jets took it first. I feel like this is how Brad operates trades. He basically says “I am willing to give this package for this player” and then just offers that package to everybody in front of him until someone says yes or the player is taken by someone else.
-The Ravens had zero interest in Derrick Moore at that pick and thought the Lions had sniped them when we traded ahead of them.
-Decosta admitted they wanted Logan Jones or Jake Slaughter as a new center to replace Linderbaum, but he couldn’t make it work without giving up too much capital. Cool for them to show an example of it not going perfectly how they would have liked.
Brad never met a trade up he didn’t like. I haven’t seen the footage, but even if the Ravens were always taking Young, another team could have snagged the apple of Brad’s eye, Moore.
Did they call their draft pick and ask if he wanted to be a raven only to get cold feet and then back out citing a physical that had been done at the combine?
The ravens are a bunch of punks for this. They got jilted so they decided to make us look bad. The raiders should have destroyed them for the way they acted during the Crosby trade
Could be both 1 and 2. There were a lot of rumors of them wanting Proctor and even trading up for him. They probably had him 1A and Miller 1B and didn’t want to miss out on either.
Does that make us look bad though? Isn’t it normal to discuss hypothetical trades in advance, so that both sides can make quick decisions on the clock? If the Rams had taken an OT, Brad might well have said yes because FOMO haunts him, or so it seems.
Well think about this, how many draft videos have ever been posted that show so much of what another team was doing? I honestly can’t remember a single one. Teams edit them so that can’t be easily done. Some you can parse through with a fine-toothed comb and MAYBE figure it out, but this one is as blatant as any I’ve ever seen.
It struck me as suspicious that DeCosta was asking if Young was worth taking… while they frame this video to sell a story that he was their guy all along.
Plus… the reaction from Ozzie and Minter almost seems subdued like they were disappointed that another player wasn’t available.
The video narrator also doesn’t mention that the Ravens used nearly every second of their allotted time before sending in the pick for Young. Seems like that pick would have been made sooner if they were ecstatic to see him available.
I interpreted that as them saying “He is worth taking because we have such a high grade on him. We aren’t looking to trade back because he is such a no brainer of good value”
With the editing they do they can make every pick look like it was the guy they wanted all along. I would love to see unedited draft rooms where GM’s are livid when they miss out on their guys by 1 or 2 picks. That would be entertaining.
