04-09-2016, 12:00 AM
(04-08-2016, 04:05 PM)kevin Wrote: If we don't trade up......Then I like the player Collinsworth thinks might be on the board that he likes. I value Collinsworth opinion on WR's because he was a Pro Bowl Bengals WR, and a Super Bowl Bengals WR. Collinsworth has seen a lot of this WR because his son was on same team. Collinsworth has seen a lot of this WR and says he is one of the fastest players to come out of college in a while. Collinsworth was pretty fast himself. He doesn't say fast for a WR, he says one of fastest players to come out of college in a while. ........Collinsworth says in college teams would double team him and practice all week to not let him beat them deep, yet he burned teams deep every week anyway. Collinsworth says he is also good on screens and slants and gains a lot of yards after the catch with his speed and running to daylight. .....Collinsworth says the knock on him is he dropped some catches in college and his size, but Collinsworth says if teams double cover AJ Green they won't be able to defend this guy. Either they cover AJ Green one on one, or this guy will eat defenses apart. ..........His name is Fuller from Notre Dame, and Collinsworth who knows Bengals and knows WR's says Fuller added to AJ Green would be hard to defend.thought I heard you mention Collinsworth. j/k dude couldnt help it. sorry.
So I take Collinsworths word on Fuller if we don't trade up........and as for a 2nd WR in the draft, I don't see a huge need with the talented free agent signing. The free agent and Fuller replace Jones and Sanu and with AJ Green and others, our WR's are deep. The other picks are needed at other positions and areas of weakness or aging players. .......So I say go round 1 on WR, and then don't draft any more WR's. The talent isn't that deep, and we have other needs.
You can't teach speed. You can coach up route running and catching but you can't teach speed. Fuller is a home run deep bomb threat with pure speed, but also gains a lot of yards in the short passing plays. I like what Collinsworth says, that if they double team AJ Green, the defense can't cover Fuller.....and if Fuller forces them to single cover AJ Green, then they can't defense AJ Green. ......Add in Eifert and the free agent WR we just got and our other depth, and our RBs, and it sounds like points on the board to me. .......I value Collinsworth opinion on NFL WR's since he was a Pro Bowl/ Super Bowl WR for Bengals.
Add in rich in tradition Notre Dame....and the Coach Cincinnati Bearcats fans loved now coaching at Notre Dame.....Did he coach both Eifert and Fuller ?........I know he is a good coach who is turning out top WR/ TE draft picks......I don't see much off field problems with Eifert or Fuller, draft pick team leader types. .....I take Collinsworths word, draft him and it all probably gets Bengals deep into play-offs and maybe Super Bowl. .....Dalton and McCarron with many, many weapons on offense.
I don't know where Ohio State RB Elliott goes in draft, but he is Eddie George like and one of the best RB's ever in Ohio State history, which is saying something. We need a WR in round 1.......but unless he gets a bad injury, Elliott should be better than Hill or Gio. ....I would have no problem with him at 1 and a WR at 2....and if we take a WR in 1 and Elliot is still there in 2 you just grab him fast. .....but Elliott will probably go fast with his Eddie George combo of power and long gains for touchdowns speed. Those Bowl wins and his running against Alabama, Oregon and him just destroying Notre Dame was Jim Brown like.
