Carlos Dunlap

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(01-22-2020, 11:33 AM)Okeana Wrote: Is it me or is Carlos Dunlap the real MVP of this team with his consistency year in and year out not to mention putting up his best season yet at the age of 30 years old.  I was watching one of those talking head shows yesterday talking about how there can be a case made that we should trade burrow and somehow get chase young and how this would improve the team.   One thing that stuck out to me was one of them saying that Chase Young is good but he has no one across from him.  I don't even think these guys know who plays for the teams before they talk out their ass.

I watched that same video. The guys in that video are idiots.

They were talking about "Well Burrow is great, but what if the Bengals could trade down and then get Chase Young and Tua? Wouldn't that be better than just Burrow?"

And it's like...yea...that would probably be better than Joe Burrow, albeit just barely, considering Tua's substantial injury risk. Would I do that? I'd be tempted, but I think I'd ultimately stick with Burrow over the two.

But they didn't say how they would go about making that happen.

Like...How do you get the #2 overall pick AND a top 10 pick for the #1 overall pick?

Because Young is going #2 no matter what. There's no way Washington doesn't pick him if he's available. And Tua is going to Miami or San Diego unless his medicals come back all messed up (in which case, why would we want him over Burrow?)

They offer no explanation for how they'd get that trade done and I don't really see any possibility of it. Like, trade with Miami for all 3 first round picks, then trade the #5 and one of the firsts for the #2 pick? Maybe? And then move up from the other first round pick into the top 10 to get Tua by, I dunno, giving away next year's first round pick? But if we take Tua, then that means Dalton or maybe even Finley is our QB again next year, which means we'd probably have a top half of the round first round pick (and that's being generous. It could be a top 10 or even top 5 pick with Dalton or Finley as QB). 

It just made no sense.

So when they said there'd be no one opposite Chase Young, it didn't surprise me. They know absolutely nothing, so it makes sense that they are not aware that Dunlap, Hubbard and Lawson exist and are formidable pass rushers.

EDIT:
Here's the video, for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Wb1kQpp4Y