10-24-2015, 08:50 AM
(10-24-2015, 07:46 AM)hitchopottimus Wrote: If you look, the year we really started drafting well was the draft after Marvin Lewis signed his extension, and Carson asked out. It's always felt to me like more happened behind the scenes during the negotiations between Marvin and the team than simply him keeping his job. From that day forward it felt like Marvin was truly controlling the football aspects of the team, not just doing what Mike Brown said. I have no proof of that, or any sort of inside info, but I think the negotiations around that extension led to Marvin, or at least Marvin's guys, being in charge of the draft process instead of Mike Brown.
We drafted Dunlap in the 2nd and Atkins in the 4th in 2010. They are probably the two best defensive players other than the undrafted Burfict. There are several other starters still with this team that were drafted earlier (Whitworth, Peko, Smith, Rey, Hall). This team had been drafting well before Carson asked out.
