02-24-2019, 07:08 PM
(02-24-2019, 06:54 PM)Whodey614 Wrote: 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.
Great post, man i sure hope we start to do things a little differently in FA and grab a top Linebacker and a top O-lineman to really free up the Draft. With the clean sweep and Taylor now here things might be starting to change for the better and we might see atleast one of these positions addressed with a top FA for once.
Atleast i have some hope for this after last Offseason and now this season with moving on from Marv and company. Seeing some different things going on and it has me excited. We need atleast 4 new starters at LB and OL though. I am not expecting Turner to be able to turn Redmond and Hart into quality starters, that is for sure.
