(04-20-2021, 02:52 PM)tms Wrote: I know you were asked to be a cheerleader and I don’t have anything against Chase, he's just a kid. He'll be a good pro, I'm glad he's living his dream and he finna get PAID. But this is one of the biggest hype jobs of all-time.

 
Go back 12 months. See what they were saying about Sewell then. Better yet, go back four months and what they were saying about both guys then. Sewell = Top 2, maybe Top 3 if there’s a run on QBs. (Remember: “We better not beat HOU/PIT if we plan to land Sewell!”) Chase = Top 10... likely WR1, but that means less than it used to seeing as there's been one Top 10 spent on a WR over the past five years (Corey Davis).  
 
Nary a game has been played since then. Just measurements and draft hype to the t!ts, fans ascribing value to metrics that mean nothing when games are being played. For example, I don't care how Sewell measured or what he did to prepare for his pro-day. That's a completely separate topic. All I know is that he is a massive man on the field who plays even BIGGER. Please show me where they measured "tenacity" and "GTD" (Get Things Done) on his RAS card. Because his play tells me it would've been through the roof. 
 
And we’re not even being fair to Chase. He’s anything but a generational talent and shouldn’t be forced to live under that scrutiny. Penei isn’t either, for that matter. Nobody is among the 2021 class imo, not even Trevor. Chase is not Megatron- it’s absurd to say that he is. I fear that we use that label just to hide the myriad of questions around him- namely his size, his reliance on physicality to avoid getting jammed at the LOS (which may not translate to the pros when up against bigger faster older more experienced men), his limited body of work, his one-dimensional route tree as the X alongside the most powerful offense in history, and the fact that we already have two fine WRs and nobody was crying for a third last year. In fact, we kicked Ross, Ericsson and AJ to the side of the road because their skills and speed were “so important” to us.
 
It’s one of the main reasons I’m appalled by the rumor mill these days. Nonsense is being spun around the clock. It happens every year but this is off the chain. Nobody was talking like this at the end of 2020, much less 2019. We have no memory. Sewell has been consistently perched atop the big board for over a year. It’s only now that people are trying to poke holes in his armor and revise history. And not surprisingly, the vast majority of those "people" have never played the game or worked in the game- because those who have are almost unanimously still behind Sewell, shrugging their shoulders and saying, "Don't overthink this one, Bengals..."


For someone like myself who’s been around the draft game for a long time, you know exactly what you’re seeing. It’s partly prospect fatigue but partly “something else”. Nothing to do with football. You're preaching to the choir in terms of having fun with the draft- that's always been my mantra and I'm a massive draft nerd. But this here is just bad vibes and I can't wait till it's over. Pick Chase, win the press conference and sell the new jerseys so we can go back to actually improving the team. Just my 2c.

(04-20-2021, 03:01 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Oy.  Every single thread... 

(04-20-2021, 03:05 PM)tms Wrote: Yeah, I know. I'm sure your pops is a strong man too. Knees, hips... we all face the same fate. It just looks like a mistake on a guy who's in his physical prime like Joe. But that's the nature of football. What can you do. < Nah, I'll just leave that out. Don't want to ruffle any feathers.  

That's the nature of football.