(Yesterday, 04:31 PM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: Their drafting has been poor but it’s not like every season/player is the same as the previous year.

You also can’t dismiss the fact that the Bengals lost their starting CBs and their best LB last year so them being healthy will improve the defense. They weren’t great with them but they definitely raise the talent level of the defense.  They also have a true run stopping tackle and more young talent at LB that should help them improve vs the run.

I am not blown away by the draft but the Bengals should be better at guard and they have a set of skill position players that almost every other team would love to have.

I would say their drafting has been average, not good and not horrible when compared to the rest of the NFL. The problem is we have 2 of the best drafting teams in the NFL in our division, Ravens and Steelers. We have 2 of the best HC in football we have to play 2x a year, Tomlin and Harbaugh.

Look around the NFL, few teams have long term stud coaches in their division

(Yesterday, 01:17 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: LMAO what? Geno Stone? Volson? CTB took a giant step back, they still dont have a TE better than Drew Sample (that is embarassing), and Jordan Battle has shown what outside of his rookie year? Are we really expecting Myles Murphy to take a giant leap forward into becoming an average player at best? There's a giant hole at the Guard position still

But im sure all of this will fly over your head and you will spout whatever Hobson or Dehner sells you

Volson will not be starting, and neither will CTB unless he gets his crap together. Thanks for making my point. I don't think Murphy is going to take any great strides, that's why they took Stewart. And Fairchild is going to be far better than any of the guards we had last year.

(Yesterday, 01:17 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Lamar is 10-2 vs the Bengals. We can hang our hats on close losses all we want, but it’s not like those other teams didn’t get better. Baltimore took yet another safety in the 1st round because they’re tired of watching Chase go crazy on them. Graham, Green, and Harmon all went inside the division. And our answer at guard was a 3rd round pick and a career backup in Lucas Patrick.

Baltimore took another safety. Who cares. Chase will go crazy on that rookie as well. 

(9 hours ago)Sled21 Wrote: Baltimore took another safety. Who cares. Chase will go crazy on that rookie as well. 

Both you and Luvinit clearly didn’t get the point. No one is saying their new safety will come in and shut Chase down. What I said was a few of you act like things outside of the Bengals stayed static. Other teams improved their already strong rosters. And attacked weaknesses with high picks. If you feel what the Bengals added in the draft and FA is enough to keep up with that - cool. Many of us don’t.