Time to trade up in draft ?

[Essex Johnson]

(01-02-2019, 12:37 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Thing is this team is a good ways away from being a true contender. Can they and will Mike Brown do enough, quickly enough, for it to matter for the quickly getting into the final 1/3 of their careers core ?

Perhaps (with a new outside the Bengals tree HC) it would be best to go ahead and start the rebuild ? 

Package our 1st, 6th, and Dunlap, Raiders need pass rushers bad ! For their 1st ? Let Dalton help the rookie along ?

I dunno ? Perhaps it's best to build O and D lines and LBers and wait on next season for QB ?

In the NFL today with parity, the idea of rebuild or overhaul does not seem to be supported.  So many teams go from bottom in division to top in division in a year and some go to winning playoffs etc.  The AFC Central does not seem to have a clear favorite.. Steelers seem to be reeling more and more from internal issues and losing Bell overall hurt them, Ravens turned it on at end of year but still how far can they go with a QB running the ball over 15 carries a game and they stayed  reasonable healthy this year on defense do you think they would be where they are if they had injuries on their defense like we had on our offense.  Cleveland moved the bar this year but still finished under 500 .  Bengals need to assess their needs and address them without making areas of strength or stability weak.  Draft well, do a FA pickup that helps but does not break the bank and hope we overall we stay healthy which now sinks a  team in the parity of NFL we live in called "injuries" next year. 

http://www.espn.com/blog/philadelphia-eagles/post/_/id/23178/eagles-on-verge-of-furthering-nfls-worst-to-first-trend