Please calm me down...

[Murdock2420]

(04-01-2020, 03:11 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The Bengals have “hit” on one 1st round pick in the last decade. One. AJ. I’m talking absolute home run, Pro Bowl, elite player. So not guys like Zeitler or WJ3.

Based off our draft history in the 1st round I’m not willing to pass on a QB with the potential of Burrow with those kinds of odds. If we were drafting studs left and right every other year in the 1st round I could at least understand the argument, but would still be against it.

I’ve mentioned it before, but we have had at least 3 elite players on the team at once in AJ, Whit, and Geno. We won 0 playoff games with them. What we never had was a great QB. And now the opportunity to grab one is staring us right in the face...

Potentially great.

There was a list of Heisman winning QBs around here somewhere and it was an ugly list of NFL success. 

Burrow looks like a good prospect, but every year there is a QB that jumps up the boards and is going to set the world on fire, last year it was Kyler Murray and before that Baker Mayfield, and neither of them look to be "elite" QBs. College success doesn't mean NFL success no matter where you played or who you were coached by, proof of that is as simple as looking at Alabama and realizing that they never produce a QB that is NFL caliber. Another reason I wouldn't take Tua....

It's a crap shoot, Burrow may be elite or he may turn out to be just another middle of the pack Andy Dalton like guy. If the offer is high enough, you have to consider it. Missing on one pick even 1st overall is easier to do then missing on 3 picks in the top 32.

Also, this isn't me saying don't take Burrow... this is just me saying if you get offered enough picks in this draft and perhaps the next draft, you have to entertain the offer.