03-01-2022, 08:09 PM
(02-28-2022, 11:36 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: The strategy makes a lot of sense. I don't want to lose Uzo or Boyd though. Our passing game won't be nearly as good without those two. Uzo is the cheaper and more valuable option of the two in my opinion--but both are valuable 3rd down targets.
I'd be open to swinging a trade of Boyd for a legit olineman. But I'm not sure we get enough value from a second round pick. The better option may be letting Boyd play out his contract and drafting a WR next year to eventually replace him.
Looking at the draft order I could see DT being a BPA pick at the bottom of the 1st. Tight end is a real possibility as well. I REALLY don't want to see us reach for an offensive lineman (again). How many times have we reached for an offensive lineman in the past several years and missed horribly? I hope the picks last year pan out, but our track record is terrible. We need to make something happen in FA and draft BPA in the draft or we could be staring at another lost draft IMO.
If some of our recent oline draft picks make significant improvement next year it would be absolutely huge. We need to upgrade at least 3 positions along the oline--and I don't see more than 1 or 2 of these recent draft picks being legit starters for us next year (best case scenario). We need to win now--so make some moves.
We've got a SB window right now of 2 or 3 years. The moves we make this offseason are critical to getting that SB win. If we can't win it in the next couple of years, we will have missed out on our best window of opportunity. It's not going to be easy to field a team when we have so much tied up in Burrow, Chase and Higgins.
I disagree with the opinion that " Our passing game won't be nearly as good without those two". IMO we need to throw all our offensive capital at QB, WR1, Oline, WR2 - with a great line, JoeyB and our 2 wr's the slot, RB and TE can all be very average and still produce.
