"Playing hindsight.. what would rather have right now.. Jimmy Graham or Martellus Bennett, Max Unger and whatever we would have got from the 31st pick"
Well I am on record as asserting the Unger loss cost us a SB last year.
So clearly, if I could roll back the clock to undue the Graham deal - of course. Not a Graham hater, just not a Graham carer. He wasn't worth what he cost and we traded a strength away to get a new weakness.
And our offense got BETTER when Graham went down, so while some of that is not his fault - it isn't like we gained anything but a ginormous hole in our OL that we lost 2-3 games and likely Rawls because of. At least Wilson survived unscathed, so there is that.
Generally when a big FA deal is made by this FO, it working out tends to be the exception instead of the norm. They do a tremendous job on the draft/UDFA front however.
It should also be noted that guys are going to look better with Brees throwing to them anyway, so I think Bennett vs Graham in the near term would have been ridiculously better. Maybe they would have realized that jettisoning Unger was bitingly stupid and kept him in that instance.
Then again, it is pretty clear that the "they play checkers we play chess" statement made by some of the Pats is fact. Their FO is better than ours in FA moves by a long shot. Since they are better than everyone else, it isn't really anything we should feel bad about. We are better in the draft though.
