Dan Graziano
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who was, you know, probably the best player in the entire league last year and add him to their defense.
And then on the Cleveland side, I thought they did.
I mean, you have a first round pick next year.
You have verse who was a first round pick in 2024.
So, you know, that's not long ago.
and you have him under control and cheap for the next couple of years, and he's played.
He was defensive rookie of the year.
He's played to the level of a first-round pick.
Get some other picks, and now you're eyeing this 2027 draft when, for once and for all, you need to find your quarterback.
The more first-round picks you have, the more picks you have in general, the more you're able to kind of move around that first round, maybe move up a couple spots if you need to get ahead of the Jets or whoever else to get the quarterback you like.
Their big move ahead of 21 was getting Stafford.
They had reached the point with Jared Goff
where they thought, this is as far as we can go with this guy, and we need somebody who's elite in certain areas where he's not, and it worked.
I mean, that was very famously, right?
They talked about, you know, FM picks and all that, and this is another example of that.
But they are right there.