This one is real life, I promise.
Mailbags this time of year have to get creative sometimes to shake it up, so that's what yesterday's edition was all about. Tossing around trade ideas, even as fantastical as one involving Matthew Stafford, is an exercise in understanding assets and assigning team-specific values to them. It helps carve out what you are and where you are going.
Most draft talk tends to be more technical than that, and we'll get back to it with prospect previews each day this week and some of your questions here:
"Nate, if you had two players that you rated equally that were both available at #20 (a DE and a DT) and both were in a position of need, wouldn't you take the DE over the DT because of the relative cost of obtaining each in FA?