03-16-2019, 11:06 PM
(03-16-2019, 10:46 PM)samhain Wrote: I can't really judge the roster until I know that the bulk of major offseason acquisitions are over.
That said, I despise our linebacker group for the most part as it stands. Brown is a decent player, but not a 3-down guy. Vigil is just a guy. Burfict looked like he was finished. When he did manage to get into games, he seemed to leave in short order with up and down play on the field (plus the requisite dumb extracurriculars).
This could and hopefully will change after the draft, or perhaps a FA signing (which seems unlikely with the kinds of players they're bringing in). A Devin White or Vosean Joseph would change my opinion quite a bit.
If you're going to have a guy like Brown, who is a 2-down guy as a starter and Burfict who is unreliable as another, you need to have some damn good backups waiting in the wings, because it's a virtual lock that you'll need them early and often. It's not so much that the starters suck (even though they kinda do), it's that the backups are absolute dog shit tacos in football jerseys, and they play way too much.
Hardy Nickerson and Jordan Evans need to be selling insurance or working on used car lots next season. They are bums of the first order and I hate seeing them on this team.
My personal belief is that LB is what they'll be looking for in the 1st. Depending how things shake down after that they could look for OT in the 2nd, but I think they take multiple linebackers in the first half of the draft at the very least.
Last year they desperately needed an OT and they shocked everyone with a trade. Maybe they're looking around for a similar deal for a LB this year, who knows. I think a deal like the one they made with Buffalo made more sense last year, though, just because there were so many QBs out there... Buffalo knew they'd be able to get one of them at the Bengals spot. Not sure who a team would trade up to 11 for right now as there's no guarantee the top 2 QBs will be there.
