12-25-2019, 12:24 PM
(12-25-2019, 11:20 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Interesting.
I rooted for my team to win last weekend and some single digit IQ moron said I "must be one dumb mother *****" because I agree with you, trade down early and often. His argument was that "He wants to win" which is why he wanted the Bengals to . . . lose? I'm of the belief that people thinking a rookie QB is the answer to this mess are clueless about the history of this team. Klingler and Akili Smith took over crap teams and were never close to the QBs that they were in college. Palmer had his moments over a couple of seasons but was never the same after the injuries piled up.
People claiming Watson and Mahomes as examples of young 1st round QBs playing well, tend to leave out that they went to established good teams that traded up, not shit storms like Cincinnati. With all of the pressures that come with being the #1 overall pick, Baker Mayfield is starting to feel that, this is not the team to be drafting a QB early in the first round. They need to build up that roster first. Like Chicago, Cincinnati is a QB killer. Draft Burrow next year and you'll be drafting his replacement in 4-5 years.
My thoughts exactly.
The Bengals currently have a handful of starters who would be starters on playoff-caliber teams ... Mixon, AJ, Boyd, Geno and maybe Dunlop all come to mind. The rest of our starters would be backups on playoff-caliber teams.
So we need 17 starters. Trading the #1 pick for a 1st, 2nd and 3rd round pick will get us closer.
