So I asked DeCosta during his appearance on “The Lounge” whether his pre-draft comments were an effort to dissuade the Packers from moving up.
“I would just say no comment other than to say the draft is a game and there’s a strategy involved,” he said. “You try and be as gray as possible with everything that you say. You never want to give anybody a strong indication on what you’re going to do. We’ve learned the hard way over the years.”
“I think one thing people will learn, eventually, is sometimes what we say leading up to the Draft, there’s different ways to interpret those types of things, and it’s a game.