Please have someone in the Bengals FO read this!

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(01-11-2018, 04:26 AM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: Interesting and thought provoking read.  For many years it really did seem as though the best teams just out-drafted and had better systems than everyone else, but times seem to be changing.  With Marvin Lewis re-signing for another two years and many of the core players starting to get up there in age, it might make sense for the team to put the chips in the middle of the table with big FAs.  If Lewis and the current core don't get it done in the next two years, it'd likely mean a new regime and a true rebuild phase would be inevitable.  What big ticket guys might be worth spending on this year?  Nate Solder?  Dontari Poe?  The only thing that stinks about signing elite/good FAs is that it may alter draft decisions.  I don't think that you'd want to go out and spend big money on a DT and then turn around and draft a really good one in an early round for example.

Why would it be bad that acquired FAs could alter draft decisions? That's part of the reason FA is before the draft.
The point of FA and the draft is to improve your roster. If you are able to upgrade one position in FA, it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep adding to that position in that year's draft too...with the caveat that a particular draft pick would be far and away above draft picks at areas of need and would turn an area into an elite one.