Please calm me down...

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(04-01-2020, 12:33 AM)Whatever Wrote: It won't happen for a few reasons. First, if you were intending on trading the pick for a boatload of draft picks, you wouldn't also go crazy in FA. You would tank to try and get in position for a QB next year, then go just in FA.

The big play in the NFL now is you try and take advantage of having a QB on a rookie deal. All FA equates to is the Bengals trying to fix the defense so they don't waste Burrow's rookie year. Possibly, it's a good faith gesture to Joe and try to shake the "not serious about winning" narrative.

Burrow is a Mike Brown wet dream not only from a player standpoint, but from a marketing standpoint. He's not passing on him. He puts too much value on the QB position. He was a QB in college himself, for Pete's sake. Burrow is a great prospect and a potential goldmine for the franchise.

People will throw out trade scenarios because the pick is obvious and there has to be some kind of drama for tv. Miami was supposedly in love with Tua last year, too.

That's basically what I was going to say; you don't make the multiple FA moves and add pieces to shore up the D, if you don't think of winning now.

If they were going to tank again, the picks would make sense, as you want to get a ton of pieces.

But look at this year's draft; to REALLY shore up the team, what would you get on O?

1 OT
1 WR
1... maybe franchise QB?

In the first round.

Some facts:

- We don't NEED a high WR, especially in this class, when you can get superb talent (potentially) in the 3rd or 4th.
- If you tank this year, you don't get a QB, so you get Lawrence next year.
- Going on my last point, what do you get; a LB? DE?

We are set at many positions and only 2, do we really need a ton of help; QB, LB and arguable on OT (still think Fred or a draft pick will be the answer).

With the class being full of guys that you don't really need on this team (Dline, CB, RB, WR), this would not be the year to stock up on picks, IMO.

Nicomo, read some of the recent articles on CincyJungle; multiple team sources have said (recently, not 2 months ago) that Burrow will be the pick. In 2-3 weeks, we're going to hear Lapham say it too, assuredly.

Have faith, man!