If you are going to use an economic example then consider what anyone who starts a business does. They borrow thousands or millions of dollars based purely on the belief that they will get more value back then they gave up. You pay whatever cost you have to if you believe the reward is worth it.
We believe that Kolb will be a good QB and we weren't going to get him for less. The Eagles were hesitant to give him up for this even and wanted a 1st. If you believe Kolb is your QBOF and that is the price then you pay it. Only time will tell if they were right about him being QBOF, but we didn't get taken to the woodshed. Everyones favorite example of a similar trade is Matt Schaub who cost two 2nds. You have to ask yourself if we had traded DRC to a team right now if he would have got us more then a 2nd? I don't believe any team would have given up a first for DRC today, so we basically gave up the equivalent value of 2 2nd in my mind.
Yes, and they may or may not be stupid when they do it.
In reality, you should only open up a business and take out that money, if you can actually do it...NOT IF YOU BELIEVE you can. It's 0 or 1, and belief doesn't change it one bit.
Do you really think they 'believe' in Kolb? Maybe on camera. I think they 'believe' he was the best one out there, and that's two completely different things.
Just because one believes he's a good qb, doesn't mean he is. It also doesn't mean there weren't OTHER good qb's out there.
You see it's all about shutting down the part of ones brain to believe sophistry. Oh, he's the one. Really? There's only one? How does one know? What makes this guy better than anyone else? What makes him better than any of the other options? If one has answers for those and many more questions like it...is it worth the difference in price?
People need to stop believing sophistry. Because that's all belief in something that doesn't deserve it, is.
I never said he won't be good, I said there are alot of question marks. Way too many to give up that much, when any other offer we basically risked nothing.
So for this ONE guy, which no one can say why he's so much better, we go from taking almost no risk, to taking almost a TBTF risk.
That's an asinine way to look at it.
For every Matt Schaub trade (who had 2 1/2 years as a starter), there is many more trades. The going rate for players is a 3rd-5th. That's for a proven guy.
We took an unproven guy who isn't the starter, and paid a 2nd AND a young probowl player who can take it to the house via int or return duties.
Plus we then and gave him a contract based on if he's the 2nd coming of warner.
People just can't face reality. We paid alot for potential, and very few can even quantify what that potential is...or better yet once again...his potential versus other options. They sure and the hell can point out where the difference in cost comes from.
A fool and his money are easily parted. Well we just got taken like we were, and now have to hope somehow it works out. Maybe it does, but again paying through the nose, doesn't make a player any better. It sure makes the team that paid through the nose, worse.
How hard is that? It's not zero sum, and very few people understand optimal. Because guess what, almost nothing is. That's why it's a high bar. Even if we're not judged against it, it's still one that we pass/fail.
