Only in your mind do you think the number one is being said to everyone it isn't up for trade.
What's actually been put out there is that the number one is only up for trade for an exorbitant sum. That's different than not being up for trade at all. If you can't detect the nuance and how that would be used in leverage, bargaining, and negotiations, then quite frankly you're not smart enough to be commenting on the subject.
At this point, and it would go without saying: We have Fields and we have the #1. Give us a call and we'll put you on the interested lists for when we know what we're doing.
I don't know if those exorbitant amount reports are any more reliable than anything else that is being put as as fact when it's actually reporters liberally reading between the lines that have been said.
If that is what's out there telling people you want way over value for an item also cuts interest.
Without a bidding war for a specific player draft trades do not get exorbitant amounts over value. If that is true it's as good as saying it's not for sale. Nobody is jumping to break the bank so Poles can scammaz them or waste their time.
So we made it through the Combine and teams are treating this as any other draft where the #1 QB is taken and they're moving on. They all have plan B. Depending on how high they are on plan B it hurts the value of plan A.
If you listen to CCS posters some teams could rather have any number of QBs over any other. There is no real single QB to have that bidding war over.
And it really hurts the value of Fields. Even if we're talking Steelers at #20 and unlikely to move up to top 5. Unless they are seriously talking with Poles about Fields they have other plans in mind by now. They could like the other plans more than Fields since they've interviewed them without knowing if Fields is even on the block.
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