Still just sick over this...

[McC]

(09-06-2015, 12:56 PM)BengalChris Wrote: I'm not saying the Bengals draft philosophy is wrong. Just pointing out that we do not go straight BPA, not matter what people say or think. Positions of need have a bigger affect on the selections than most realize and it is part of the team's player ranking system.

You combine that with the team's reluctance to trade picks (either up or down) and you get our draft philosophy. Fisher could have been drafted later, but not likely when the Bengals picked in the 3rd round, so the team took him at their spot in the 2nd.

We have a large number of FAs end of this year and the team wanted two future starting OT from this draft. Not saying it's wrong. Just saying that the team wasn't going to pick a WR on day one or two.

But going back to 2010, if the old boards were open, many wanted Bryant over Gresham and they turned out to be correct. But there are other times where one thinks a player is better and they turn out like less than decent.


You can't look at media projections of rounds and expect that to translated to the draft. 32 teams passed on Fisher in the first, and that's after we took Og and the LSU kid became undraftable. So, Fisher couldn't have been as highly regarded as that by teams.

I would say it's BPA, with need settling ties.  The most accurate way to say it is they stick to their board, with need settling ties.