03-30-2021, 09:27 AM
(03-30-2021, 08:48 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: we are lucky to get a starter in the 1st...
So going back and looking at our first round draft picks since 2010 it's crazy to think that AJ is the best of the bunch. Your 1st pick should always have an instant impact and Kirkland, Dennard, Ogbuehi, Ross, Price, Williams none of them had an instant impact. WJIII was probably the next best below Green IMO.
When you look at the teams 3rd and 4th round picks since say 2015,
2015 - Kroft, Dawson, Shaw, Hardison...none of those guys I think stayed with the team very long.
2016 - Vigil and Billings again mehhhhh
2017 - Was a draw - pick up Willis in the 3rd, Lawson, Malone, Glasgow in the 4th
2018 - Jefferson and Mark Walton
So those were the last of the Marvin years and needless to say none of those players are still with the Bengals, and with the exception of Lawson they pretty much all sucked.
Looking at Zac's 3rd and 4th round:
2019 - Trading up to get Ryan Finley (now of the Texans), Wren (has he played a snap for the Bengals?) and the famous Michael Jordan. So 3 stellar draft picks there
2020 - Logan Wilson (good pick. still to be seen if it's a great pick) and Davis - Gaither again still to be seen if it's a good pick.
So yea anyone saying we can pick up a starting the 3rd or 4th round is out of their mind and has never paid attention to this teams ability to draft of late.
When your a team like the Bengals you have to hit on draft picks. Thats the ONLY reason we were good in 2014 and for the period during Marvin Lewis run with the team is because the team drafted well. The team isn't going to bring in stout free agents as we can see this year when we had money for free agency so we NEED to hit on draft picks and we just havent done that in a long time.
