1. Because so many fans have come to expect that this is Madden and you can just "trade your way" into great players, when it doesn't happen that often. And then when it doesn't happen, they be like "o man see we should have done that deal", when there was never a deal to be had or the price was never reasonable. Trading for Yannick didn't exactly prove to be very fruitful, did it? Peters was a win, Yannick was probably a loss.
Do people think we're hitting home runs with every trade we make? Some of these haven't been that spectacular...
2. I don't recall saying that we wouldn't trade Orlando. I said I wouldn't trade Orlando for the compensation I thought we would get for him. I'm pretty sure I said nearly a dozen times that a trade was certainly possible, and I also said that the people expecting a Tunsil-level haul for him should prepare for disappointment when they said it. And boy... was that not even close to the compensation we got.
Having currently no idea whether its a good trade or not, my initial reaction to it was I didn't like it, because I don't think we got significant enough draft assets. I don't put much stock in the 3rd rounder we got, because we likely get the same in a comp pick in 2023 if we keep him. So we basically moved up about 25 spots from a 2 to a 1, and added a mid rounder. Me personally... I'd have liked to have kept an All-Pro level tackle for another year on a contending team, but time will tell what this deal looks like.
3. As for the Julio deal specifically, a bit of a difference compared to the others, considering this one, literally, costs a shit ton. It'll cost good draft capital and it'll cost significant $. This isn't getting Peters on a cheap deal, or paying for half a season of Yannick (there's a reason why we didn't acquire him until mid-way through, instead of in the preseason, which is what everybody suggested), while giving up mid-rounders.
You guys can shoot for the moon if you want to, and sometimes, it'll stick. But you're just setting yourself up for disappointment more often than not.