What Do You Think About 2020?

[THE PISTONS]

(11-10-2019, 01:31 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: This team was a playoff team year after year not long ago. What changed?

They had poor drafts, but prior they had good to great drafts starting the year they had their best draft position drafting Dalton (at time we still had Palmer) in round 2 and AJ Green with 4th pick in the draft. So recent history with top 5 picks is on the side of management. To say it does not increase to grab a stud with picks 1-4 is not accurate.

There are misses yes, but when there is a consensus top 5 player by draft experts, then why would any team be blamed for their choice? I think it also comes down to elite talent in the top, some drafts have more than others. Based on what I am seeing, I do see a lot of elite talent in that top 5, but Bengals could always trade down and add more picks (early) in the draft is they don't see the can't miss guy. 

I never root to lose a game, but let's just say I will not be heartbroken if we end up 1-15 in 2019 so we secure a top 3 pick in every round.

Good question. I read some articles about how in 2015 they changed their scouting. Also seems we went BAP years ago.

I think some of drafting is luck. Like finding a potential HOFer in Atkins in the 4th Round...you really can't plan that.

AJ Green was a Top 5 pick also. We usually hit on those.

We just missed a lot lately. Some of it was being too cute. Some was risky picks on injured guys.

It's really hard to just pinpoint the issues down to 1 or 2 things.

We lost a lot of key guys in free agency 3-4 years ago and didn't replace most of them with equal quality. That's the root cause.