09-24-2020, 08:47 AM
(09-22-2020, 10:17 PM)lone bengal Wrote: I can’t lie I liked the move at the time but now Price looks like another wasted 1st rounder. Far as lineman go James Daniels was picked 39th overall and Braden Smith 37th overall both are better than Price and of course you have Darius Leonard 36th overall. Too make you feel better big picture we came one win away from not getting Burrow. If we had picked better 1st rounders over the last few years they could have made plays to win us a game and we lose out on Burrow. Rather have the QB and figure out the rest. But it brings into question some of Tobins draft blunders.
I hated the Price pick at the time. I'm no scout, didn't have access to film and don't claim to be an expert but I tried to read up on the subject by consuming a lot of scouting reports and none of them were describing a first rounder. They were all describing someone with physical limitations, lacking elite attributes, playing at a non-premium position who lacked pro-bowl potential. Whilst a high floor, low ceiling prospect at a non-premium position has some value, it's certainly not first round value. Now it turns out all those scouting reports were optimistic and this supposedly safe prospect with a high floor wasn't even that.
The Center I wanted at the time was James Daniels and I'd have been happy with him or Ragnow in the first. Both were considered to have pro bowl ceilings, which if you're picking a non-premium position in the first seems to me to be a must. But the O-lineman - or indeed any position - I was crossing my fingers would fall to us was Isaiah Wynn and I can't help but think that this O-line would be looking much better now if he had been the pick.
FWIW the O-lineman I really wanted this year was Josh Jones. I'd have been delighted with him in the second round but for him to be there in the third and for us to pass on him hurt.
