Matt James Begins Holdout

[kckolbe]

To be fair, we indicated we'd listen to your suggestions if we drafted you to the team, as we will with any of our players, not that we in any way needed your unsolicited draft advice or assumption that we were trading up to get you. We did consider you until you came on way too strong when replying to our draft inquires, at which point we knocked you down our board a little.  Then you had that temper tantrum, and like many other GMs we knocked you off our list entirely. All of that was on you.

So if you didn't need my advice, does that mean you feel that a 6th round pick and a top 3 overall pick for the #9 pick was a good idea? You feel adam was right to ignore that?

If my draft slide was all on me, which I can accept, then the fucked future of your franchise is all on you. Also, given that you were picked #7 overall, I'd say you should know better than anyone how poorly adam evaluates draft picks.

In a less shit-talking tone, I did come on too strong. I had previously spent a ton of time talking football and schemes and players with @Bzerkap, and when the pick was traded to you guys, I felt I had given a team that wouldn't be drafting me a lot of work and information. Granted, he had asked for it and you hadn't. At any rate, at that point, every team that had expressed interest, I did that for to kind of level the field. It came off more awkwardly with some than others. I get that.

He was also the reason I thought you were drafting me, as he told me he thought you were trading for me. It wasn't a complete assumption on my part.