official draft pick tracker thread

[rjs246]

Yeah, I'm not too spyched about that little development. I thought the absolute WORST the team would get would be a fourth. Boo!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

This is, at this time, just speculation from some guy who's usually right.

So, it's not really a 'development' just yet.  Plus, I thought that sometimes they condensed a team's losses into fewer draft picks than actual players they lost (meaning the Eagles could get a 4th instead of a 5th and a 6th?).


Anyway, official word isn't out yet.

[rjs246]

Clearly, but this dude is pretty spot on year after year. I mean, we've gotten 4th rounders for the past couple of years and no one we ever let go had the kind of season that Burgess had...

[Rome]

If the Eagles only receive a fifth rounder for Burgess, the system is a joke.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

If the Eagles only receive a fifth rounder for Burgess, the system is a joke.

It would appear it's based more on what a departing player makes than how they perform.  That's super.

[rjs246]

Well it takes into account a number of factors, production, size of the contract, amybe a few others that I don't know. So maybe since he wasn't a huge star before and got a big, but not enormous contract he doesn't help out as much. But anyway, a fifth rounder sucks for losing a dude who had 16 sacks.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I wonder if they can change this with a new CBA...

If you lose a guy in free agency, and he has 15+ sacks the next year, you automatically get a 3rd round pick.

[Rome]

Losing Burgess was a huge thing for the Eagles.  At the time it didn't look to be but they lost a starting pro bowl defensive end and all they'll get in compensation is a fifth rounder?

Idiotic beyond belief.

[MURP]

a 5th rounder is horseshtein.   Burgess lumped in with a guy like Andre Dyson who had 20 tackles and 1 int last year?  damnit.

[Beermonkey]

As the NFL explains, compensatory picks are awarded to teams that lose more or better com-pensatory free agents than they acquire. The number of picks a team can receive equals the net loss of compensatory free agents, up to a maximum of four. Compensatory free agents are deter-mined by a secret formula based on salary, playing time and postseason honors.

Based on TD throws to the other teams,  the McMahon signing should count as the Eagles losing 3 additional FA's.   

[Feva]

On that entire list... Burgess is the ONLY Pro Bowler from last year and (crazy enough) one of the only few who have played in all 16 games for their new team... on top of that leading the league in sacks thing.  That's only worth a 5th rounder (according to his estimates)?

Then, guys like Ed Hartwell and Gary Baxter who did shtein for ATL and CLE other than get hurt earn their old teams 4th rounders?  I guess Burgess screwed us again by not doing his thing and only playing a fraction of the season.  Had he done his one and done thing again, we could have had a 3rd rounder.