How many great teams have 3 2nd Round RB's drafted within the past 5 years?

[kevin]

(12-03-2017, 09:24 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Generally when teams can't run the ball, they draft Centers and Guards high...Tackles too.

The Bengals blame the RB and keep drafting more and don't address Center or Guard!  

Having 3 2nd Round RB's on a roster drafted within the past 5 years is pretty crazy and a waste of resources.

and yet they called letting Corey Dillon go as addition by subtraction... I'm glad he looked like Jimmy Brown as Patriots won Super Bowl, probably the best of all the Patriots Super Bowl teams, Brady AND Dillon. 

Mike Brown always says, " Why should I pay a guard ? "....He said it when he let Max Montoya go.  He said it when he let Steinbach go.  He said it when he let Zeitler go.   Zietler is also not the guard they should have drafted.  I was very angry they did mot draft Decastro rated as one of the best guards in the draft in years.  Bengals took Kirkpatrick and Steelers quickly took DeCastro who still is a monster for Steelers.  Of course Mike Brown wouldn't have paid him either and would now be with another team. 

Yes, the Bengals love to draft running backs about as much as the new Browns love to draft quarterback every year.  You are correct that good teams build their trenches, but don't try to explain that on Bengals draft page in any year as fans always want a running back or wide receiver they saw in college game.  Cincinnati Fans don't value building up the trenches any more than owner Mike Brown.  You are correct that Super Bowl teams have great O Lines.  This idea that a good RB can make up for a bad O Line never works. Plus, if we really believed in great running backs, then why did we get rid of Corey Dillon.  ...I'll add Bengals said losing top young linebacker Spikes was addition by subtraction.....Who the heck taught Bengals coaches and owners math, because it is math that doesn't add up or make any sense. ...So a team that didn't value Corey Dillon has drafted Mixon, Hill, Bernard and don't forget Irons in second round. ....Look, it's like this, when Bengals don't want to pay the money to keep Zeitler or Whitworth or Jones or Sanu or Joseph or Spikes or Dillon or Parrish or Bergey they ALWAYS call their cheapness ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION. I will say while Paul Brown was alive he went out and got good O Lines in the 1970s and 1980's. I give Pro Bowl Tackle Forrest Gregg of Vince Lombardi Packers much credit for the offensive linemen brought in during the 1980's and who better to coach up Pro Bowl Munoz than Pro Bowl Gregg. Gregg built a great O Line for us in the 1980's. True Bengal Fans understand that.

Good point on us drafting running backs and it leads to a coaching story by Earl Bruce. He said he brought in a class at Ohio State that was rated as the #1 recruited class in the USA and then Ohio State had a lousy year, Bruce said he asked ex head coach Woody Hayes what went wrong. Woody told him he recruited the top finesse players but he didn't get enough big boys in the trenches and said he didn't bring in any of these big Ohio farm boys that are up working the farm way before city boys are out of bed and are great in the trenches. Earl Bruce said he learned his lesson on recruiting and going for all finesse players.....That is a lesson Bengals owners, coaches and fans still need to learn. They think you load up on just finesse players and you do not, not if you want to win. Mike Brown who doesn't know why he should pay guards or centers simply doesn't know football. Mike Brown not only didn't keep top guards, but when he had a chance to draft the best guard in years in draft in years in DeCastro Mike Brown went cornerback. When Mike Brown knew he needed O Line in 2017 draft he drafted WR Malone even though he took WR Ross already and took kicker Elliott who would never start for Bengals. Mike refused to draft O Linemen even in 2017 draft, he just doesn't see a need for O Linemen. Woody Hayes, Forrest Gregg and Paul Brown would tell Mike he can't win without O Linemen.

I can see Ross and Mixon maybe, but when they took Malone and Elliott they should have been getting O Linemen in here. It was a STUPID DRAFT.