04-12-2021, 02:22 PM
(04-12-2021, 01:58 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Several years ago, RoyalRedLegs/Berserker and I were questioning whether we should resign AJ Green for exactly this reason. The elite big name WRs rarely win it all. Top WRs cost nearly as much as QBs...but if you have a top QB, you really don't need a Megatron caliber WR.
Finding a top QB, surrounding him with good - not necessarily elite - weapons, and using the rest of your money to fill out the line and defense seems to be the way teams have generally won titles.
This is exactly why I want Sewell over Chase. I view Burrow as an elite QB in the making. Our WRs are adequate and just need an infusion of speed. So now I just want to build up our o-line and defense.
Also consider how much cap you'd have to use to retain an elite QB and an elite WR. You'd be spending 1/3rd of your total cap on the pass game alone, and that's not even including o-line.
So elite QBs are important not only for their play on the field, but the freedom they give you to not spend big on a WR, which allows you to allocate money elsewhere.
Sewell isnt the only OT in this draft that can start week 1
I sense this narrative that if the Bengals dont draft
SEWELL than the oline is bound to fail to keep Burrow
Upright.
This team can draft Sewell and JB could still take
A hit to the body and miss x amount of games
I watched Big Ben behind the best oline in the North
2-years ago miss 3/4s of a season.
QBs get hit over and over. Even behind the best olines
