Adam Peters and the Commanders aren't afraid to trade draft picks, so should they trade their 1st round pick for star DE Trey Hendrickson?
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00:00All right.
00:00We'll workshop our bet as the day goes on.
00:03Yesterday's poll was about whether or not
00:05you're OK with Adam Peters trading as much
00:08as he has for three veterans.
00:10They've given up a ton of picks here in those three swaps.
00:14And the vast majority of you were on the side
00:17that I've been advocating for, which is, yeah, it's a lot.
00:20And it doesn't look great when you give up
00:21that many picks in short order.
00:23But it was worth it.
00:24And you don't have a problem with it.
00:26Try to go be great and win some football games with Jaden
00:28Daniels.
00:29So that brings us to today's poll of the day, which
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00:44We're asking you, would you continue
00:47the trend of bleeping those picks,
00:49getting rid of the selections for the veterans,
00:53and trade a first-round pick for Trey Hendrickson?
00:56So in this hypothetical, we're talking pick 29 for Trey
01:00Hendrickson of the Cincinnati Bengals.
01:03This was Albert Breer on our show,
01:05saying that's what it might take.
01:07The Bengals want a one, but I don't
01:09think the one's going to be out there for them.
01:11He's 31 years old, and he's going
01:14to require a new contract.
01:15So I still don't think they would move him for anything
01:18less than a two, though.
01:20So you have to make that determination
01:22if you're Washington, where you've already, I mean,
01:26I can't, I don't have it in front of me,
01:28but they got what, a one, a two, a four, a six, and a seven,
01:33or something like that, right?
01:34Exactly right, yeah.
01:35So you're looking at it, if you're them, and you're saying,
01:38do I really want to deplete myself of another draft pick?
01:41I think that's a question.
01:43And I think the other thing about it
01:45is, if you are the commanders, you're
01:49probably looking at it and saying,
01:50there's a really deep draft at that position.
01:53So we could draft guys with our first two picks,
01:57and potentially hit on starting level players at that position.
02:01So remember, Danny, because they picked 29
02:03at the end of the first round.
02:05It's not even a good first round pick.
02:07So it's kind of like a second, almost.
02:09It's closer to a second than a really good first round
02:11pick, if that makes sense.
02:13So I would think that the Bengals, if they want a one,
02:16but would settle for a two, probably
02:19wouldn't love 61 overall, which is almost a three
02:22at the back of the second round.
02:24So if you're Washington, you could part with 29.
02:27And in this hypothetical that we're cooking up here
02:29on Grant and Danny, live from West Palm Beach,
02:31as we watch the Nats and the Astros in a spring
02:33breakout game on one of the most beautiful days of all time,
02:37I'm going to say that the Bengals accept the first rounder
02:41and nothing else.
02:42It's just 29 for Hendrickson.
02:44Even though they've already given up a two,
02:45two threes, two fours, a five, a six, and a seven,
02:48would you give up the first and then
02:50be down to a second, a fourth, a sixth, and a seventh this year?
02:52No, I would.
02:53But I would add that what this group has done a lot of
02:55is some of those pick swaps or some of those give us
02:59back a third so we have a little bit of ammunition
03:02to keep moving around the board, et cetera.
03:04But that's kind of my point.
03:05I don't know what my cutoff is, Jeeps, for I
03:08don't take the first round pick as seriously.
03:11That's not the right turn of phrase,
03:12but you know what I'm trying to say.
03:14In other words, 29 is, as you said,
03:16basically the second round, the same way
03:18that pick 34 is basically the first round.
03:20It's that super late, yeah, this guy's kind of round one,
03:23round two, and this draft, et cetera.
03:25I mean, there's no 100% foolproof wisdom, obviously.
03:28But conventional wisdom is anybody
03:31from that 20 to 50 range, depending on the scout
03:34that you talk to or is writing about,
03:36you can pretty much shuffle up and deal.
03:37So I don't really, I'm not as diehard for my first round
03:41pick if it's normally in the top 10 or the early teens
03:44or where we're used to seeing Washington pick.
03:47This is basically a second rounder
03:49that I would give up at this point.
03:51Because again, this is the route that you're
03:54taking to try to then walk it back and go,
03:56no, we're building around young players.
03:58One, two young players, you're not really,
04:00you're building around Jaden Daniels
04:01with a bunch of veterans.
04:02And I'm fine with that, by the way.
04:03I think that gives you the best chance
04:05to win in this rookie quarterback window
04:08that you're in.
04:08So to me, I'm making that move.
04:11We can open up the listener lines on this at 800-636-1067
04:15because I want to take the temperature of our audience.
04:18It's funny, as we undulate day to day,
04:21it feels like between, man, they're giving up a lot of picks
04:23and would you do this?
04:25Because I think both things can be true.
04:27They are giving up a lot of picks
04:29and it isn't a great practice necessarily,
04:31but Adam Peters has shown no indication
04:34that he doesn't like doing it.
04:37I mean, it's one thing to say
04:38you want to build through the draft
04:39and they may feel like they are
04:40or will continue to, by the way.
04:43But you can simultaneously hit on your draft picks
04:46and build a couple of players at a time through the draft
04:49and still give up plenty of those picks
04:51to bring in those veteran free agents
04:54or rather available players in trade opportunities too.
04:58So I would do it.
05:00I am a little leery and worried
05:02about how much they've given up,
05:03but I think it's case by case.
05:05And part of why I say I would give up a first round pick
05:08for Trey Hendrickson is you tell me,
05:10where's your edge coming from?
05:12Because right now that answer would be
05:14you're picking a guy at 29.
05:16Well, if it's a straight up swap,
05:1829 could be, let's say James Pierce falls to you.
05:22Bit of a flyer,
05:23guy that didn't put up huge college numbers,
05:25but he's a physical specimen in a beast, right?
05:29So you can either have Hendrickson,
05:31who's had 35 sacks the last two years
05:33and is one of the best edges in the National Football League
05:35over a three year span.
05:36And yes, he costs over $30 million a year.
05:39Or Pierce on a rookie deal,
05:41but it's the same pick, it's just one pick.
05:42It's not like you're giving up,
05:43it's not two or three players you could have taken.
05:46And I'm not even convinced that they have the ability now
05:48to stick at 29 anyway.
05:50They may have to trade back
05:51just to recoup selections as it is.
05:54So they may not be able to get a first round edge.
05:56Their defensive player that they draft
05:58to start on the outside,
05:59up front might actually be in the late second round.
06:02And now you're talking about someone
06:04who might get you four and a half or five sacks as a rookie.
06:07So because the free agency well is drying up,
06:11they pick as late as they do.
06:12I think you're staring down the barrel
06:14of having a substandard defensive end situation.
06:18And that's why if there's the possibility
06:20of the Bengals calling you saying,
06:21Hendrickson's yours for 29,
06:23and it only takes the one pick,
06:25I actually think it would be a mistake
06:27and a bad decision by Peters not to jump on it.
06:31The, what people are gonna do
06:33is they're gonna recoil because you hear,
06:35as soon as you see the phrase first round pick,
06:38people automatically will start clutching it, right?
06:41Because we've been conditioned over so many years
06:44as commodities and stats and analytics
06:48and the pocket protector squads,
06:51which you and I are part of,
06:52have taken over sports to such degree.
06:54But they're not all equal.
06:55And this is my point.
06:56This is where I'm going is you have to keep them.
06:59They're so valuable, so valuable.
07:00I mean, you think of how major league baseball rosters
07:02are constructed.
07:03It's like any team that's not gonna win 100 games,
07:06every owner and every gym is basically like,
07:08we're gonna spend the absolute bare minimum
07:10on a bunch of 21 and 22-year-olds
07:12for one-tenth of the cost of the 30-year-old veteran
07:15and win 15 less games.
07:17And we're fine with that,
07:17eventually with the idea that we're really good.
07:19You look at the NBA,
07:20kind of doing something similar with rebuilding franchises.
07:24So these first round picks to a degree,
07:27not up at the top with the chance to get a quarterback,
07:29but for the most part,
07:30they become this larger than life automatic secret sauce
07:34where if you have your first round pick,
07:35that automatically makes you good.
07:36And it's not the case.
07:38The whole point again, that I keep coming back to is,
07:40you are building the best roster you can,
07:42and you use every lever at your disposal.
07:45This is one used in an unconventional way.
07:47See, I don't even think people would be bothered
07:49by giving up a one for Hendrickson.
07:52I think the problem they'd have now is
07:54how many other picks they've given up.
07:57So in other words,
07:57if you didn't make the Lattimore trade or the Tunsil trade,
07:59which the Tunsil trade to me, I loved,
08:03and I will continue to love.
08:04I think it's great.
08:05The Lattimore trade, which I liked at the time,
08:08could backfire.
08:09I mean, right now it's been bad,
08:10and there's a lot of ball out in front of them
08:12where it could end up being a good deal.
08:14But both he and Debo Samuel,
08:15I think are higher risk propositions than Tunsil,
08:18who worst case is just going to be a very solid tackle
08:21for you for the next couple of years.
08:22Best case ends up playing at a top five level
08:25and looks like an elite player at the position.
08:26But I'm looking at any kind of disdain
08:32for a first for Hendrickson
08:36from the perspective that a fan is going,
08:39you don't have that luxury anymore.
08:40Like you can't spend any more money, Danny,
08:42because you just went on vacation
08:44and you just sent your kid to college
08:47and you just did your trip with your wife.
08:49Like you have to now do a spending freeze.
08:51Adam Peters, you've already given up a two,
08:53two threes, two fours, a five, a six, and a seven.
08:55You don't get to give up a one too.
08:57I think that's where maybe we'd get some pushback.
09:00But if you're not okay with it,
09:02then tell me where you're getting your edge from.
09:04And if you're saying at 29,
09:06that's just such a crapshoot
09:08that that guy ends up being really good.
09:09I mean, he might.
09:11Sure.
09:11I like James Pierce a lot from Tennessee.
09:13So if he's there, okay, great.
09:14But now you go, are you really counting on that?
09:17What if seven teams in front of you,
09:19all the steamies and Mike Green from Marshall goes
09:21and Pierce goes, and now you're going,
09:23oh, whoops, I was supposed to grab one, now I can't.
09:26But even if you take the guy you want,
09:27what I'm saying is being great in two or three years
09:30is awesome.
09:31The way they're putting together this off season,
09:34it's pretty important to them
09:35that this person helps them right away.
09:36Like they're in some ways going for it this year.
09:39How sure are you about that?
09:42There's a guy with 15 plus sacks waiting in the wings.
09:44He could be yours pretty easily if you want him.
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09:50Grant and Danny, we are live in West Palm Beach
09:53watching the Nats spring breakout game today
09:56at the Cacti Park of the Palm Beaches.
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