02-24-2019, 06:54 PM
(02-24-2019, 03:37 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Are you saying Mixon, Lawson, Boyd, WJ3, Bates and Hubbard were bad drafts?
Hell, Price might even become that stud Center for us we have always needed which i am still predicting.
Our one draft where we drafted Og makes all of our drafts look worse than they really were.
I'd say the 2014 and 15 drafts were pretty bad and are the main reason why the team has dropped off the last 3 seasons. Dennard, Uzomah, and Kroft are our best players from those respective drafts and they're free agents in a couple weeks. The rest were bad picks or didn't offer anything long term (Hill & McCarron). Losing great players to FA like Sanu, Whit, Jones, Zeitler will always hurt but failing to draft guys that can step up and be solid at the very least in replacement of those players hurt too. The Bengals don't make splash signings in FA so they need to have good drafts and keep players when their contracts expire. They've done that for the most part, but not every draft is going to have gems past the 3rd round. That's why you need a healthy mix of FA signings and drafting.
But they've rebounded greatly with the last few drafts. Mixon, Lawson, Boyd, WJ3, Bates and Hubbard is the group of players that ZT is going to build around along with this upcoming draft. Hoping we can eventually throw Ross into that group. Vigil and Billings have improved every season and Glasgow is a solid role player. Malik Jefferson, Darius Phillips, and Jordan Willis were well-regarded players in college, maybe we'll see some growth from them? Definitely a lot of young talent on this team and it'll be fun to see if ZT can put it together.
