Report: Burrow pushing for Bengals to draft Chase

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(04-11-2021, 03:24 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Only on the Bengals boards will you see people hyping up late round scrubs like Armon Binns and Cody Core, then trash a guy who just had one of the best rookie seasons in team history. All so they can justify taking another WR a year after the star QB got his knee shredded due to bad blocking.

Only on Bengals boards will people rip the starting QB for needing to be "surrounded by weapons", then when we get an elite QB (potentially), they want him to be surrounded by weapons.

Only on Bengals boards will people swear by PFF, then ignore that our top WR graded out as (IIRC) the 2nd or 3rd best player on the entire team.

That's typically two different groups, though.  The group that continually hypes scrubs like Binns, Core, and Tate is typically the group that doesn't want to prioritize WR in the draft, so they make any scrub out to be the next Marques Colton to rationalize neglecting the position in the draft in favor of whatever they determine our biggest need is(typically OL or defense).  The group that wants WR to be more of a priority is typically in the minority and sees those guys for what they are:depth guys that will be out of the league in a few years.  But it is what it is when when people start at a conclusion and try to rationalize their evaluations around arriving at their predetermined conclusion instead of evaluating dispassionately and reaching a logical conclusion based on those evaluations.  

Different eras.  In the NBA, you used to be able to compete for the title with only one superstar player.  Try that philosophy today and see how far you get.  In Andy's playoff run years, you could compete for the SB with an elite QB and decent weapons in the passing game.  You can't anymore, because the elite QB's all have All Pro WR's and/or TE's.  

Higgins and Boyd graded out at 75.9 and 75.8.  That's good, but it's not great, elite, or WR1 like some are claiming.  They're good players, but they aren't the elite All Pro WR's the teams competing for the SB have.  They are good players that play on a bad team that some are overrating due to the comparative bad play around them.