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Originally Posted by Bald_81
If Avery was the next highest player/value on their board at that spot then by all means forgive me for my comment. I just felt that they went based on need provided they addressed our two biggest in the first two rounds. Miami, who didn't really have a DE need, took Merling because of the value. As I said, if Avery was the next best on our board then forgive me. It just pains me to see that we were targetting someone else and knew we could have traded back into the round to get Avery later on, much like we did for Burton and Schuening in rounds four and six.
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Considering Jones wasn't on the board when we picked, Avery very well could have been the highest rated player on our board at that time. We don't know one way or the other, nor do we know we could have traded back into the round to get Avery. Yet your initial response seemed to cite the Rams' interest in Jones as a reason Avery was a reach. Still don't understand that one.
As for whether we were targeting Jones, that's not what the write-up said. It simply said the Rams were paying attention to his fall (which wasn't far, since he went to Dallas @ 22) and Thomas himself thought they would take him if he was there at 33. He wasn't, so it's kind of a moot point.