Bengals brilliant in taking Kicker Elliot over Gonzalez

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(04-29-2017, 04:20 PM)BoBengal Wrote: His kickoffs are very weak.  If you watched the game when he made the long FG-- he had about a 20 mph wind at his back.  

Anything outside of 44-45 yards will be "iffy at best" for him.

I read that he had the 5 longest kicks in school history, all over 50 yards. Was the wind at his back each time? Just trying to be fair here.

(04-29-2017, 05:07 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You never know if this is true or not.  If the Bengals had him ranked this high then there is a good chance another NFL team would also have him rated this high.


I just think it is funny that when a player is taken higher than all the "experts" predict the team is accused of "reaching", but when a guy is ndrafted much later than all the "experts" predict no one ever claims that all 32 teams were wrong and the "experts" were correct.

Agreed big time. We always say a player was a great value when he "slips", but there's no way to prove that a team actually reached. It's always possible some team right behind us was going to nab him. We'll never know.