Andre Smith returns

[kevin]

(03-14-2017, 08:17 PM)PikesPeakUC Wrote: Per Adam Schefter. It's for one year, so not a big investment here.

Resigning Kirkpatrick and Lafell and a few days later resigning Andre Smith who we lost last March, I like it.  Lets face it Zeitler now the highest paid guard ever in NFL history is just more Cleveland stupidity.  Whitworth was offered too much by the LA Rams.  Let me make it simple, I do NOT blame them for taking the money.  Zeitler and Whitworth just became very rich and their families, their kids can not only go to college but buy the college.  Burkhead also gone I hear and Hunt and Peko gone.   Andre Smith shows players can leave and come back, so who knows.  Even Boomer Esiason left and came back.  Harrison came here a year and went right back to Steelers.  I like adding Smith back and keeping Kirkpatrick and Lafell.  Kirkpatrick when Pacman goes to jail and/or suspended by NFL in 2017, Kirky adds some experience to other top picks Dennard and Jackson.  NFL QBs would have destroyed their inexperience all season.  I'm very happy Smith also brought back.  I'm ready for the draft.

Once we have the draft, more people are going to be positive than negative. We are set to have a HUGE draft.  We have a top D Line and the makings for a top secondary. We have a top and often Pro Bowl veteran QB throwing to some of the top pass catchers in the game.  The Bengals will be looking to RB, blocking and linebackers to tackle with their early and often draft picks. 

Our biggest weakness in 2016 was kicker.  Can we get somebody in 2017 that can make an extra point. Is it asking too much for a big star NFL guy to make an extra point.  My word, there are high school kids that could do it.  Bengals lost games in 2016 due to missed extra points. THAT HAS TO STOP.  I suggest Bengals coaches find a kicker who can make the new NFL extra point, and this guy has to practice it over and over all Spring and Summer until he can make these in his sleep. That's all free throws and bunting are, and extra points, Practice, Practice, Practice.  Probably why most pro baseball players can't bunt, in practice they swing for the fences, never bunt. A missed bunt, missed free throw, missed extra point are beneath what is expected of a paid athlete.  In 2017 Bengals need to make the extra point automatic points again. That or get crazy good at going for 2.