For those of you in the "Trade Down" crowd

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(01-05-2020, 03:34 AM)kevin Wrote: Look, Mike Brown was NUTS not to take the Mike Ditka offer.   Ditka wanted to move up to get running back Ricky Williams.  So he offered Mike Brown all of New Orleans draft picks plus the top picks the next 2 years.  Paul Brown would have grabbed that in a second.  Mike Brown however turned it down and took Akili Smith.  

I doubt anybody ever makes an offer again to Bengals like the Ditka offer.   However if such a thing is offered, Yes, you forget Burrow and take all these extra draft picks.  Just as back then, when you only have 2 wins or 3 or 4 wins, you need a bunch of new players. 

I don't see a Mike Ditka offer coming.  Burrow seems the right pick.   However if a team was to offer up many good draft picks for the one, plus we have top picks in all rounds, we could get many top players in here at all positions.  The Cowboys traded a top RB for many draft picks and those many draft picks lead to the Cowboys Dynasty of the early 1990's.  A team like the Bengals could become a POWER fast with many Top Picks. 

I don't see any teams as crazy as Ditka was, or as crazy as Mike Brown to say no.....So as the draft stands now, Take Burrow and our top pick in 2 is like a 1.  3 is like a 2.  4 is like a 3.  5 is like a 4.  6 is like a 5.  7 is like a 6.   We should get good help at O Line and LB at top of 2 and 3.  4 being like a 3 lets us get a WR....QB, OT, LB, WR  in first 100 players in draft should help fill huge needs.  That top pick in 5 should be good like a 4. 

I doubt there is ever another Ditka type offer.  Ditka was crazy and Mike Brown even more crazy for saying no and taking Akili Smith.  Nobody will ever offer Bengals all their draft picks again for one pick. 

The Redskins got a boatload of picks for Ricky Williams and wallowed in mediocrity due to a steady stream of journeyman QB's.  They wound up getting Champ Bailey and LaVarr Arrington, but it wasn't enough because they didn't have a franchise QB.  

The reason the Herschel Walker deal worked for the Cowboys was they already had Aikman.  They just needed to put pieces around him and the trade facilitated that.  The Ricky Williams trade failed for Washington because they didn't have a QB and it stockpiled too much talent for them to bottom out and get one.