Lapham's prediction is IN

[*ochocincos*]

(04-27-2022, 02:13 PM)ATOTR Wrote: I firmly believe that over the last 15 years, the 3 biggest setbacks to this Franchise were: 

Palmer Knee Injury 

The 2014-2018 1st round Draft Run 

And the most crippling; Drafting and Starting Andy Dalton for 9 years like he was a Franchise QB, when he was a backup. 

This was really the downfall of the Marvin Era.
Dennard (meh at best)
Ogbuehi (bust)
WJ3 (solid)
Ross (bust)
Price (bust)

They didn't really need any of those guys to be starters immediately other than Price, but as the roster started to turn over and got older, they really needed at least a few of these guys to turn into quality starters.

I guess the positive thing though is that if it wasn't for the team declining 2016-2018, Marvin might still be the HC and Bengals wouldn't have gotten Burrow and Chase.