06-06-2016, 11:48 AM
(06-03-2016, 02:39 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I can kinda see what you two are getting at, but saying "if we don't constantly draft crappy players with our compensatory picks, we won't be able to draft decent players later" seems like more a knock on the Bengals FO than a good reason of why you should keep trying to horde comp picks at the cost of making your team better.
Since 2012 (they didn't know they'd be in the playoffs in 2011) to 2015 (can't judge the 2016 picks yet), rather than try to get some real FA help and win a SB (SEA, NE, DEN), they horded comp picks to get:
Free agents flop at a high rate.
I would agree with you if every free agent we signed was a success, but it does not work like that.
For every team you point to that has won by signing free agents I can point to a team that has fail miserably by signing free agents. It is a circular argument that proves nothing.
