Some of the trade logic is a bit wacky, though not quite so much as you're making it sound.
mortgaging the future for a last-minute emotion pick on a player he could've got without ever giving away the team's future in the first place.
It wasn't a "last-minute emotion pick." It was the pick he had decided to make early on, after calm consideration. Or did you miss the note he wrote to himself back at the beginning of the movie?
The "could've got ... in the first place," on the other hand, is (presumably) true.
But the reason he didn't just sit with the original pick and take Mack - which would've made more sense - is because the owner essentially ordered him to make the trade so he could select Callahan.
That just makes it look like the Browns GM doesn't know what he's doing
Yes, exactly. So far as I can tell, that's exactly what the filmmakers' intentions were. Here's the bones of the story:
- Sonny has the right idea from the start.
- The owner - who's a jerk, motivated by the wrong goals, and not that smart - leans on him to make a trade, any trade, and select Callahan, and in an understandable moment of weakness Sonny capitulates.
- Additional information comes up that confirms Sonny had the right idea all along.
- Sonny rebels against the owner and does the right thing, which - because it reverses the stupid move ordered by the owner - makes him look incompetent.
- Through a series of (fairly improbable) events, Sonny manages to save the day and show the world he's not the idiot he looked like an hour earlier.
(which may or may not be a reflection of the real team)
Well, yeah, it would seem to be. But that's not really relevant, as the teams in the movie are clearly fictional and bear only a vague resemblance to real teams (they just went nuts with the names and logos, presumably because they were so glad they pried that hard-to-get right out of the NFL).
It woulda been like....
That's kind of the point, though, isn't it? That Sonny is brilliant enough to make moves that
look like the wrong ones, but are going to turn out to the right ones.
Because Callahan MAY NOT have had his teammates at some party?
The moviemakers did everything short of putting up a written intertitle with the words "Callahan has character problems, and will be a bust, while Mack has been unfairly misunderstood and has the heart to be a great player."
You can fight the storyteller all you want, but I don't know what the point is. The story they're telling - an unlikely one, which is what makes it interesting - is what it is.
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