Let's face it, it was a necessary move to get out of the jam. Losing picks sucks but that path was laid down over the past decade with bad deals. We are where we are now and current management is doing a reasonable job of negotiating past the challenges. Tanner had to go. Fans like him and he was a swiss army knife who was in my opinion a good team guy. With that said, the #1 priority is to enter the season with no baggage and Tanner's situation was one of the distractions last year (to no fault of his own I'm sure).
New captain, new faces, newish coaching staff and a new page. Let's move forward, not back.