Four consecutive years

[*ochocincos*]

(10-16-2017, 12:57 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Well the OP was most definitely a troll, but we do have an issue with our 1st rounders lately.

Ross
Ogbuehi
WJax
Dennard
DreKirk
Andre Smith

This is shaping up to be the 4th straight year we got absolutely nothing from our top pick. I've strongly disagreed with anyone saying WR wasn't a need (it should be abundantly clear right now), but that just makes it even more disappointing that Ross hasn't been ready to go.

Some of the guys on this list wound up being productive players, so I'm not giving up on Ross (that'd be silly at this point)...but we're not so good a team that we can afford to have our top picks develop for 2-3 years and lose most of those affordable rookie contracts in the process. They need to produce right away. If the coaches can't get them to produce, then that's a coaching problem. If they're not healthy at draft time, maybe we should avoid them.

You know, we've seen a lot of people saying the Bengals should have taken someone else besides John Ross in the first. I think that's been beaten up enough to show that there really weren't many other obvious options that didn't have their own health concerns and were considered elite players besides maybe Howard but there's already another thread discussing him.

I think what kind of shocked me was taking Josh Malone in Round 4 vs another position/player. There were plenty of fine TEs left (specifically George Kittle) or OL. Given we knew that Ross would be recovering from injury all offseason, you'd think they'd have at least targeted a WR that could have contributed at least SOMETHING immediately rather than someone who is such a project as Josh Malone. It's sad that he's been a healthy inactive every game when all the other WRs besides AJ have been doing so poor and John Ross hasn't been able to play.