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Worst drafting teams - puddycat - 04-04-2025
The Least Successful First-Round Teams in the NFL Draft the Last 10 Years
https://ftnfantasy.com/nfl/the-least-successful-first-round-teams-in-the-nfl-draft-the-last-10-years.
#24. Bengals. Amazing how this team's record tracks their ability to draft good (and bad) 1st round players. The 2015-2019 run of Ogbuehi, Jackson, Ross, Price and Jonah.. uggh. No wonder Marvin got fired.
RE: Worst drafting teams - SunsetBengal - 04-04-2025
The Rams are a team that drafts well. I thought that when we snagged Zac off of McVey's staff that perhaps our draft quality might improve.
RE: Worst drafting teams - Bengalion - 04-04-2025
Great read. Thank you for sharing it. We have been terrible drafting in the trenches.
RE: Worst drafting teams - TheLeonardLeap - 04-04-2025
(Yesterday, 06:29 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The Rams are a team that drafts well. I thought that when we snagged Zac off of McVey's staff that perhaps our draft quality might improve.
Other teams have real scouting departments who do a lot of that work for them so HCs can primarily focus on being HCs.
The Rams have 13 people with the word "Scout" in their title plus another 7 people currently in their Scouting Apprenticeship program.
....also Zac was there for all of 2 years, 1 of them as Assistant WR Coach.
RE: Worst drafting teams - Frank Booth - 04-04-2025
(Yesterday, 07:10 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Other teams have real scouting departments who do a lot of that work for them so HCs can primarily focus on being HCs.
The Rams have 13 people with the word "Scout" in their title plus another 7 people currently in their Scouting Apprenticeship program.
....also Zac was there for all of 2 years, 1 of them as Assistant WR Coach.
please stop criticizing mike brown. He keeps football in cinncinati
RE: Worst drafting teams - jason - 04-04-2025
We're actually the best by WAR in the first round in the last 5 years though... Fwiw. 2020 and 2021 were basically all it took.
RE: Worst drafting teams - TheLeonardLeap - 04-04-2025
(Yesterday, 07:32 PM)jason Wrote: We're actually the best by WAR in the first round in the last 5 years though... Fwiw. 2020 and 2021 were basically all it took.
Last time I remember hearing NFL WAR mentioned was when it tried to say that Russell Wilson was the 2019 MVP even though Lamar had a 113 QB Rating, led the NFL in TD passes, and rushed for >1200 yards to make his team be 14-2 with the #1 scoring offense.
Then Lamar obviously won unanimously regardless and I legitimately don't think I had heard about WAR (in the context of football) since.
It's a hilariously useless stat. It tries to say that LaDanian Tomlinson's MVP season where he rushed for >1800 yards and caught >500 yards with 31 total TDs was worth LESS THAN 1/10th of the WAR of Matt Ryan's MVP season.
RE: Worst drafting teams - jason - 04-05-2025
(Yesterday, 07:56 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Last time I remember hearing NFL WAR mentioned was when it tried to say that Russell Wilson was the 2019 MVP even though Lamar had a 113 QB Rating, led the NFL in TD passes, and rushed for >1200 yards to make his team be 14-2 with the #1 scoring offense.
Then Lamar obviously won unanimously regardless and I legitimately don't think I had heard about WAR (in the context of football) since.
It's a hilariously useless stat. It tries to say that LaDanian Tomlinson's MVP season where he rushed for >1800 yards and caught >500 yards with 31 total TDs was worth LESS THAN 1/10th of the WAR of Matt Ryan's MVP season.
I really don't even understand how it works. I'd just read an article ranking the top 5 and bottom 5 in the first round the day before this thread was started.
RE: Worst drafting teams - TheLeonardLeap - 04-05-2025
(7 hours ago)jason Wrote: I really don't even understand how it works. I'd just read an article ranking the top 5 and bottom 5 in the first round the day before this thread was started.
It's just really really bad.
It said that us signing Mike Gesicki was a more valuable addition than the Ravens signing Derrick Henry and juuuuust shy of TWICE as valuable as the Eagles signing Saquon Barkley.
The 5 biggest "losers" in FA last season from a WAR perspective were...
Ravens
Commanders
Broncos
Vikings
Texans
...all 10+ win playoff teams.
RE: Worst drafting teams - reuben.ahmed - 04-05-2025
(Yesterday, 06:29 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: The Rams are a team that drafts well. I thought that when we snagged Zac off of McVey's staff that perhaps our draft quality might improve.
I think the only thing we got was to suck enough to draft Joe Burrow...unless and until Zac wins a SB, I put all the success on Joe and all the failure on Zac, lol.