03-16-2022, 07:08 PM
(03-16-2022, 04:24 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I know 1000% that Taylor does not like to give up picks. He believes in his own evaluation certainly on the offensive side and Lou’s on the defensive side. Duke and his staff do a great job at bringing them to them and Zac really includes the position coaches so they have skins in it. He’s good about that. He was behind TAMU recruiting Manziel. He discovered Desmond Ritter for the Bearcats. He had Higgins as much higher. Lou on the other side was huge in the FA defensive players last year and Logan Wilson in the draft. Ossai is going to shock a bunch. He’s really good.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/university-of-cincinnati/2021/10/08/bengals-zac-taylor-desmond-ridder-cincinnati-football/6048681001/
Quote:Taylor gives then-UC wide receivers coach Blake Rolan credit for being the first Bearcats assistant who spotted Ridder. Rolan went down to Louisville to see Ridder. Two weeks later, he took a second trip. This time, Rolan brought Taylor with him.
Meanwhile on the picks front, the Rams GM wore a "**** them picks" shirt to their Super Bowl parade.
— Kara Henderson Snead (@KaraHenderson) February 16, 2022
Picks are nice. High quality proven NFL players are better because there's never a guarantee that any of those picks will develop to be any good. Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase are obviously big franchise changing picks, but they were preceded by Jonah Williams, Billy Price, John Ross, William Jackson, Cedric Ogbuehi, Darqueze Dennard, Tyler Eifert, Dre Kirkpatrick, and Kevin Zeitler before you got another big positive franchise-changing 1st round hit in AJ Green.
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