04-11-2021, 09:15 AM
(04-11-2021, 01:27 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: So Quinn Meinerz and Dillon Radunz should be completely off the draft board by this logic.... yet most people are all about one or the other or both after taking Chase...
So, competition only matters when it's convenient to the argument?
Oh.. and this "competition" argument has no weight when the guy that was Sewell's QB played the same "lack of competition" and moved to the NFL with no issue and was the best rookie QB of the season, with a better showing then the rookies from the SEC....
So... next argument?
It's okay to prefer Chase... but this is not a good excuse or argument for being against Sewell at all.
I don't think competition is a be all end all, especially w O line, but it's worth talking about. We're just conducting an exercise in splitting hairs at this point.
And that's what the discussion is, right? Both Chase & Sewell are elite, top shelf players in this draft. We're all just boiling it down to the finest degree.
I actually think competition is LESS important w linemen. They all push fatties around and face big, strong, tall D Ends at some point. And you're really judging them on their size and how they move. If there was a tie breaker between linemen, sure, competition matters maybe?
At WR, I think that's a lot different. It does matter to see who a guy matched up 1 on 1 against because you get to see them on an island against similar athletes every play. The individual skill there is critically important and on display. I think WR is a technically much more complicated position both athletically athletically and as a skill set.
Like, I love that Jamaar Chase torched AJ Terrell so badly in the biggest games of their college career, that it cost him millions in draft position. AJ Terrell was the 16th pick last year and Jamaar Chase lit a gasoline fire on him and we watched it burn for 3 + hours.... in a game that couldn't have been bigger. I like that, too. The big game performances. Chase did the same thing over and over again to guys who are now in the NFL and/or are about to be.
Great film Breakdown of Chase vs Terrell, 16th pick in 2020 draft (9 carches 221 & 2 TDs): https://youtu.be/XH9Z1iEOU_E
Breakdown of Chase vs CJ Henderson, 9th pick in last years draft (Chase had 7 catches for 127 & 2 TDs)
https://youtu.be/-_Xdc5ehBB8
^ That stuff, to me, is important to pay attention to.
Something that none of us have talked about, nor can we really, is what these guys are like in interviews. Their football IQ, how their personality may fit w the Bengals, etc. And, they are BOTH super young.
