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Curious. If we could go back in time, does anyone wish we didn’t win all those games with Browning and we were drafting higher? Those wins didn’t get us in the playoffs, all it did was hurt our draft stock. As we’re approaching the draft I wonder how much your opinions of that may change. Imagine some too 5 player falling to 13 and we could have drafted him if we didn’t win those games.
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Would rather have a higher pick but never want to lose purposely to do so. Especially since there was a chance at the playoffs still.
Only see losing on purpose as an option if there is absolutely no chance of post season and they're trying to get the #1 selection personally.
Now do wish the Bengals would have chose to start Browning at the beginning of the year while Burrow was still hurt and maybe they do make the playoffs.
Plus it's nice to have those high draft picks but I've seen too many of those throughout the years for the Bengals and am ready to have some 32nd picks.
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Disagree I felt we learned a lot about our team at the end of the season.
1.) We have legit confidence in Jake Browning as a backup QB.
2.) We know we can now run a more balanced offense and not just a spread offense.
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Not really.
There is nobody I feel like we are missing out on that trading in to the top 10 would make us that much better.
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I wish the Bengals had won one more game early in the season that would have knocked the Steelers out of the playoffs and we would have got to play the Bills the first week of the playoffs.
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That last game against the Browns was super annoying because they didn't even play their starters. I feel like the Browns really won that game because they got to hurt a division opponent's draft stock.
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I was really hoping for a loss in one of the meaningless late games. That would have moved us into the top 15 and right in the sweet spot in this draft.