03-21-2021, 05:49 PM
(03-21-2021, 03:02 PM)Whatever Wrote: If we're speaking philosophically, that approach doesn't work.
The Bengals have drafted 6 OL in the first this century(Levi Jones, Andre Smith, Kevin Zeitler, Cedric Ogbuehi, Billy Price, and Jonah Williams). The average for a playoff team this past year in that same span is 3-4. The only playoff team that drafted 6 OL in the first through that same period was Seattle. The Patriots are a team often cited as an example and they've only taken 3, half of what we have.
What compounds the issue for the Bengals is they are frankly bad at OL talent evaluation. If you're drafting a player in the 1st, your hope is that they will be a multi time Pro Bowl type player. Of those 6 picks, none have been to a Pro Bowl. Only 2(Jones, Zeitler) were quality starters as rookies, just as many as those that were total busts(Ogbuehi, Price). 1st round picks are a precious resource and we repeatedly spend them on a position group where our best results are solid-good starters, not elite franchise cornerstone type players and we get get nothing out of 2/3 of them as rookies.
You can make cases for Sewell as a better talent or as a bigger need. However, taking him due to a romanticized "build through the trenches" draft philosophy that requires you to constantly dump 1st round picks into the OL isn't logical because we've literally done that for the last two decades and it has been proven not to work.
You do know that
A) There are 31 other teams in the NFL
B) Cincinnati does not have a GM, they have Mike Brown. Tobin is only the Director of Player Personnel
C) Every other year it would most likely be a 2nd round pick
D) Guys that are underwhelming wouldn't get a 2nd contract. Guys that pan out, would hopefully be re-signed
E) NFL teams aren't hiring guys off of internet message boards
Only users lose drugs.
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