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(03-16-2021, 02:31 PM)spazz70 Wrote: Did you read the original reply and follow the thread or did you just pull out one sentence with no context?  I know the answer, you pulled out one line out of context.  I stated we should go 3 OL if the def is shored up with an additional edge and slot CB and adding a vet OL.  Do you not have to look to the future?  Do we not want to protect Burrow?  You know maybe you draft a guy in round 3 and he is a gem and beats out the vet that was signed.  Maybe in a year or two he learns under the vet and becomes a very good OL.  This draft is DEEP in OL, especially in the first 3 rounds....use those picks to possibly shore up the line for the next 5-7 years instead of 1 or 2 years.  Obviously Free Agency did not work out for the OL....you cannot take just one OL in the draft and hope that a 5th or 6th round pick works out, we already have several of those on the roster now.

It has nothing to do with one sentence out of context, because the future is when Burrow is crippled because he's not protected in the present. That's what "looking to the future" when you have nothing in the present will get you.

You just gave me two "maybes" as part of your plan. Maybe he's a gem in round 3, maybe he learns for a couple years and becomes very good.

None of the picks are going to shore up the line for the next 5-7 years because that's not how NFL contracts work. Anyone taken after Round 1 is only controlled for 4 years. I'm not even sure where you're getting 1-2 years as neither Linsley, Thuney, Feiler, or Zeitler signed for 1-2 years and none of them are retiring in 1-2 years either.

Even expecting two quality starting OL year 1 from a single draft is also not a plan, man. At that point you're requiring that 2 guys you draft immediately become quality day 1 starters and don't get hurt. (Neither is exactly the norm for the Bengals.)

They don't have time to take 1-2 years and learn, and you can't absorb an injury to one of them because your depth is Billy Price. Burrow needs protected now, in 2021. A plan where you go and get 3 OL from the draft (and some mythical vet that obviously isn't a top guy because those are gone) is not a solid plan for success.