TRADE DOWN

[Essex Johnson]

(01-19-2021, 08:54 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The most relevant bit of hindsight is we should have never let Whit go and then we wouldn’t have needed to trade for an injured LT out of desperation.

It all comes down to not trusting this FO.

Whit mentioned retirement so the Bengals decided to draft for the near future without Whit and actually did offer him a 1 year contract buffer which he rejected.  It hindsight it is not resigning Whit but drafting better for the future .ie it would have been better drafting D.J. Humphries in the 1st round and then coming back in 2nd round and drafting Rob Havenstein.. our line would be much better overall with those two draft picks.  the F.O. needs to get back to the success it had in those drafts from 2010 to 2013 when we acquired players like Green, Dalton, Atkins, Dunlap, Gio, Zeitler, Dre, Sanu, Jones... and/or invest a bit more in proven FAs....