04-14-2021, 10:06 AM
(04-14-2021, 01:37 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Yes. It's exactly like Murphy's Law, just Murphy is Mike Brown and can't go away soon enough.
The only way to avoid it is to do one of two things.
Have Mike Brown say who he wants, then take the other player or... simply trade back over and over till we have 5 or 6 2nd rounders where we actually seem to know how to draft.
They have actually done this.... In 2001 Mike Brown wanted to draft Drew Breese, but the coaches talked him out of it with a plea ti draft Justin Smith instead.
The way I see it, this Bengals coaching staff has a 1 season track record with the draft (WHEN THEY HAVE HAD TIME TO PUT IN) and they nailed it. PFF had the Bengals 2020 draft class as the best in the NFL.
These guys at the top of the org: Taylor, Blackburns, Tobin, etc seem to have a plan. New players from outside of the org seem to like it (FA's have all talked at will about this). And Mike Brown seems fine to let them execute the plan.
Let's be honest here, the last 2 Bengals off-seasons have not looked anything like the previous 30(ish). I'm not so sure banging the same drum to the same ol' beat makes sense given that the song seems to have changed. Time will tell!
