This is just idiotic. If you evaluate these last two trades together, the Patriots have received a high 1st rounder and Derrick Burgess. The Raiders have received Richard Seymour and a 3rd and a 5th.
Now, Seymour is a great player, but not someone you want for a rebuilding franchise. I think that they got robbed on Burgess already. I would've gone for a 2nd, but this Seymour deal just makes no sense at all.
I'm asuming that he'll play as a DT in their 4-3, but with the Raiders, you never know. I wonder if Al thinks that his team will have made enough of an improvement when the 2011 draft comes, that he won't give away a 5th or something. I find that very doubtfull.
The real 'victim' in this is Seymour, though. Talk about making a free fall...