Too much faith in Burfict?

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(01-16-2017, 07:15 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I really dont trust this front office to draft a LB. Since Marvin has been here Maualuga has been the most productive LB he drafted. We lucked into Burfict.

I think we need to keep finding our LBs in free agency and guys that don't cost us draft picks.

We have drafted a LB in 6 of the last 7 drafts with not much to show for it.

Vigil (potential)
Dawson (potential, but was cut and made it through waivers and on practice squad all year)
Flowers (potential)
Sean Porter (nothing)
Dontay Moch (nothing)
Roderick Muckelroy (nothing)

Then we get to
Maualuga
Angelo Craig
Ahmad Brooks
AJ Nicholson
Odell Thurman
Caleb Miller
Landon Johnson
Khalid Abdullah

If we would sign a decent free agent LB that isn't way past their prime I think we could find an answer. There is a good number of LBs I like in this draft. I just don't trust Marvin Lewis to pick the right one or be able to coach him up.

Burfict is entering a contract year and will be 27 this year. If there is anyone on this team who we need to give an extension to this year it is him.

Dhani Jones and Thomas Howard were the only two vet FA LBs that I can recall have been any kind of good during their time in Cincinnati. What other LBs picked up in FA were good? Lawson, Dansby, and Hawk have all been on the lower end of performance.

I thought that Marvin Lewis would always have good starting LBs given his experience as a LB coach. But the LBs have more often been mediocre during Lewis' tenure in Cincinnati.