Bengals made one HUGE mistake in this draft

[kevin]

(04-29-2017, 08:16 PM)Steve Wrote: i was totally in love w/ this draft until I saw this GLARING screw up....
as in WTF was our war room thinking..... 

rd 5, pick 153  they draft a smallish kicker out of Memphis....
Jake Elliott....the grade on this pick was listed as "poor" b/c he's so small he's erratic on longer kicks & has no hang time on kickoffs....if ya want a kicker in rd 5 fine.....BUT YOU PICKED THE WRONG ONE....

 turns out the right one, went to the Browns at pick 224....yes pick 224 in the 7th rd....Zane Gonzalez...
how did our war room screw this kicking pick up so bad...??? 
I am shocked...!!!! 
so in the future when we watch the browns convert 50+ yard field goals while we're forced to punt from the 35 yrd line remember this war room screw up.....they just totally wasted a 5th rd pick....

In need of O Line help bad, they kept passing and passing on O Linemen of talent in rounds 3 and 4.  With 3 picks in round 4 they passed on top O Linemen....So early in 5 had to be O Lineman and there was still talent on the board.....Bengals drafted kicker way too high.....They got an O Lineman 5th round comp pick, almost a 6th round pick.  We needed the O Lineman more.....As you point out, Gonzalez was there in round 7 and Elliott probably would have been there also.  They could have taken an O Lineman early in 5 and used the late comp pick on Elliott or Gonzalez......Mike Brown who had no respect for Montoya, Steinbach or Zeitler again showed his lack of respect for O Line and blocking.  Mike Brown who took over his dads 2 time Super Bowl team and in 27 years has not won a play-off game. Of course Paul Brown DID have top O Lines and great blocking. 

I hope Elliott is a good kicker, but I agree it was a bad pick in early 5.   It should have been O Line......We could have got Elliott later in 5.....Mike Brown did it bass ackwards.