Game Narrative This Week

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(01-21-2023, 01:13 PM)Sled21 Wrote: And now I wonder how many teams are going to change their draft prioritues to match what Zac has done by bringing in team captains from winning programs and coaches kids

It wouldn't surprise me at all if a few teams adopted that strategy. Many team captains get drafted every year . . . I think that Zac and Duke have made that column a lot more important on the draft checklists of other teams.

I am so THRILLED that they are not drafting combine warriors anymore. I was a fool and got swept up into that shit for years. All it got the Bengals was mostly projects and trying fit a square peg into a round hole.

Now the projects are 7th rounder Markus Bailey, a stud team captain that fell because he was injured late in the season and was their 3rd LB drafted so he had time to heal and learn before seeing the field. No LBs drafted in the two drafts since. D'ante Smith is another project . . . TBD.

And speaking of copying draft patterns, I'd love for them to follow the Dolphins and 49ers theory this last draft and use their last pick on a QB to groom. Brandon Allen does not give me any confidence at all. If the Dolphins rookie QB has a stronger arm(his passes just floated to the receivers), they win last week and Cincy is hosting Jacksonville tomorrow. He made one real bad throw all game, but lots of good decisions for a rookie thrown into the fire. Cincy deserves a better backup QB.