Receiver in first round?

[Devils Advocate]

(01-16-2021, 08:41 AM)PDub80 Wrote: Reacjing for need is also a bad strategy. Can we agree on that?

The Bengals could NOT stretch the field last season or the one prior. A dynamic, down the field wr would be good. So would CB. So would D Line. So would O line.... as long as the talent warrants it.

Free agency will be a big indicator of what the Bengals needs are come draft time.

Also. I literally ? when you said NE didn't need WRs because they had a good QB. Uhhhh, you mean the greatest QB of all time? They surrounded him with awesome talent almost his entire career. His first few years he wasn't asked to carry the team, but that was a different NFL.

Same w Rodgers. He may be the 2nd greatest QB ever and he's been in the league a long long time doing it. He has had plenty of big time weapons. To expect Burrow to just be at that point in his career after 1/2 a season and a huge knee injury is weird to me.

It’s within the realm of possibility that the reason we can’t stretch the field is because we don’t have the time- not because we can’t get down there. Also- Joe needs to be more accurate down field too. Also- I suspect we have tells that the damn near every defense picks up on. So it’s a little harder to stretch the field when they know you’re trying to stretch the field. I do not believe that it’s because we lack speed. Lots of teams don’t have a 4.2 guy but have no problem getting it down field.

Also- a WR’s release is pretty important to getting down field. So it could be that our receivers have shitty release. There’s just so many factors.